You know, maybe Tapioca Ed wouldn't have problems with fire if he had running water. Bobagate heats up -- literally!

Matier and Ross report today on some issues regarding yet another house that Ed Jew owns. Ed Jew owns so many houses he didn't even report this one to the Board of Supes! (By the way, who owns this much property in San Francisco? If he were playing Monopoly, Ed could put up a little red hotel.)

Anyways, this latest Ed Jew house is in Laurel Heights. The last tenant in the house killed himself with an OD of muscle relaxants in September 2005. Ed tried to sell it a few months later for $1.19 million, but it didn't move. About two or three months later, in February 2006, someone set it on fire -- apparently an arsonist walked in, dumped gasoline in the living room and den, and lit a match.

Jew then got permits to renovate the house -- but apparently, a homeless guy moved into the portapotty the contractors installed outside, and then one day the portapotty caught on fire too. Neighbors are now convinced the house is haunted.

The Chron is running a bio of Ed Jew today too. He owns about $5 million in property and bought his first piece of land when he was 21. (Only $5 million with 13 houses in San Francisco? That doesn't sound right.)