SF News Are Commercial Landlords and Ridiculous Rents to Blame for SF’s Retail and Restaurant Troubles? Landlords expecting that another boom time is just around the corner, ignoring the fact that retail has been struggling since before the pandemic and that restaurants are struggling across the city, may shoulder much of the blame for the impossible economics of managing small businesses in SF.
SF News SF’s ‘Cruelest Landlord’ Back in News, Tenants Win $2.7 Million Harassment Appeal Notorious landlord Anne Kihagi lost all of her SF properties a couple years ago, but her long-suffering tenants are still in the courts with her, and she just lost an appeal of a seven-year-old harassment case.
SF News Alameda Landlord Claims She Is Not Greedy As She Attempts To Evict 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor A landlord in Alameda has been trying for a year to evict an elderly Holocaust survivor — and previously his terminally ill son, who has now died — reportedly over a $700/month rent hike.
SF News City Attorney Now Suing Evil Landlord Who's Been Forcing Out Rent-Controlled Tenants A real estate investor who for the last two years has been hellbent on kicking out tenants paying below-market rents in order to re-rent units for more money is now facing a lawsuit
SF News Infamous SoMa 'Landlords From Hell' Featured on 'Good Morning America' Does everyone remember Kip and Nicole Macy, the charming couple who were trying to flip a building they owned on Clementina Street in the mid-aughts and resorted to some crazy and illegal tactics
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF News Ellis Act Evictions Will Now Cost Landlords A Whole Lot More, Thanks To David Campos The Board of Supervisors last night passed some new legislation, originally proposed by David Campos, that's going to make evicting a tenant under the Ellis Act way more expensive than it previously was.
SF News 100+ Artists And Students Getting Evicted From Large Mid-Market Building With 'Illegal' Units [Updated] A building that for almost fifteen years has provided affordable housing to artists, students, and others on a Mid-Market block is getting emptied of tenants in what's likely to be a high-profile mass
SF News Mayor's Office Will Throw Some Cash At S.F. Eviction Prevention Mayor Ed Lee is acknowledging for the first time that there may be a problem with illegal Ellis Act evictions, and this week his office announced they would be tripling the funding for
SF News Behold, S.F.'s Most Expensive TIC Ever ... At $100 Million [Heavy sigh] We've got a new record high to share in S.F. evermore ridiculous real estate clusterfuck. It seems that a 33-unit building on Nob Hill is converting from rental to for-sale
SF News Renowned Fulton Street Slumlord Norman Sabel Arrested A scary, allegedly meth-addled landlord who owns a 24-unit building at 1725 Fulton Street was arrested Monday after he broke into a tenant's apartment and subsequently got into a fight with police officers.
SF News Evil SoMa Landlords Kip and Nicole Macy Finally in Jail Again Maybe you think your landlord's awful because they raise the rent every year and never got around to fixing your shower. Well, listen here: It could be worse. Some of you may recall
