SFist: Evil Landlords Arrested for Tenant Abuse

Darkmoon

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:01:06 -0800

Heck I can remember years back having a manager of the building I live in that was illegally searching peoples places and having others who worked in the building doing the same thing when the tenants weren't home. They were using the security camera's walkie talkies to pull it off. When I found this out but couldn't prove it I started to set up my video camera whenever I left my place and made it very clear to the manager I was doing so and informed other tenants in the building of what was going on. They stopped before anyone could get any real proof that could have been used in a court of law. There is a part of me to this day that wants to hunt the manager down as well as the spouse of said manager and let them know with real world physical violence of just how violated I felt... just remembering it still enrages me... but if I were to hunt them down I would be the one going to jail not them. Sometimes life simply sucks and all you can do is walk away.......

theMediatrix

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:44:44 -0800

hey, icbalaam -- you don't live on Bryant street by any chance do you? Just wondering. I'm sure there are a number of batshit crazy landladies in town, but there's this one in particular that I've heard tales about.

strontiumJ

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:12:12 -0800

"Anyone named Kip is automatically a douchebag." Guess now I know. -Kip

Dan Berkes

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:15:15 -0800

Heh, aj. When I was covering Open Source about a million years ago I met many brilliant, yet deeply disturbed, programmers. Of course, most of them were also working at their day jobs for Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, etc. so one could just as easily say that programmers for those companies were deeply insane as well. However, I'm not here to bring the butthurt, but only to say that I think the development of those coding skills is due, in part, to not having or being unable to develop people skills. You can make code do whatever you want or get rid of it if it causes too many problems. Sounds like Kip tried to carry this over to his property management business, with predictable results.

Dan Berkes

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:53:45 -0800

I liked the comment on curbed that said not even Ed Jew's legal team could spin this the right away for Kippers.

icbalaam

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:20:57 -0800

I like to cool my nuts with a little Gold Bond Medicated Powder on occasion. Anyway, I have a horrible landlady who is bat-shit crazy. Even the Judge hearing the lawsuit we had against her said "She's nuts!" But I'm not even going to go into all the crazy shit she's done to us as it basically pales in comparison to what these people have gone through.

Xenu

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:54:23 -0800

What's with all the anti-methhead-landlord sentiment in this thread? I've seen homeless tweakers with only four teeth left who have shit dripping down their leg on the 14-Mission who would make better landlords than these guys.

bluecanary

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:38:46 -0800

I guess I should quit bitching just because using the hair dryer and toaster at teh same time causes all the electricity in my apartment to go out. Oh yeah, and the fact that the landlord tried to change the terms of our agreement three years into my residence. Apparently I could have it much worse.

reechard

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:27:04 -0800

Read this in newspaper yesterday. Off the charts! Can you believe contractors removing support beams and sawing holes in floors? I'd like to get those names too.

The Angry Young Man

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:08:42 -0800

SFjoe: Um, these people have been accused of breaking into people's homes, stealing their possessions, and destroying their property. I don't care if their tenants were psychotic meth heads, this kind of behavior is never warranted under any circumstances. People like this should be rounded up and gassed.

ievans

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:56:52 -0800

SFJoe, I'm all about getting the full story, but did you read the part about sawing through support beams and cutting a hole in the living room floor? Those scenarios seem difficult to explain away as a tenant/landlord misunderstanding. Unless they are fabrications, that's either criminal negligence or batshit crazy vindictiveness.

aj

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:55:23 -0800

What is it about the open source developers that makes them go batshit crazy? (cf. Hans Reiser.) Still, I'm with the commenters that say these are just allegations until proven. From the article it sounds as if they are real, but you can never be sure. Meanwhile, I can't wait to see the counter-allegations.

rageahol

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:45:08 -0800

dear SFJackass, er, SFJoe: these douchebags had already been sued by the city for illegally using Ellis act evictions to get the previous tenants out. read the sfgate article. kthxbai.

mariconsoy

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:44:25 -0800

I love the fact that they cut a hole into the floor of one tenant from below. Hope the tenant wasn't a paranoid meth head or anything.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:26:07 -0800

"Cool your nuts for a bit..." awesome.

SFJoe

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:23:42 -0800

"...advise us as to when it's OK to assault your tenants, SFist readers." It's OK when their is no assault. We haven't heard the other side of the story. It's not as though every tenant is an blameless angel who would never invent a story for the sake of squeezing the landlord. Cool your nuts for a bit and let's find out what's what.

sissa

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:21:38 -0800

Anyone named Kip is automatically a douchebag.

RobInSF

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:18:06 -0800

Recently overheard at the Macy household. "Those fuckers installed bird feeders, Nicole, BIRD FEEDERS!!! - there's birds EVERYWHERE GODDAMMIT!!!" hehe...what a freakin tool...get thee a valium and vokda cocktail son.

fizzandpop

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:50 -0800

It's legally and morally appropriate to assault your tenants if they put Roger Dean posters on the wall.