SF News Infamous Lower Haight Landlord Continues Dirtbaggery, Demands 100% Increase On Rent-Controlled Unit "This is Robert Shelton," former tenant Veronica Fauxton introduces us in a charming post to Youtube. "He owns the apartment building at 312 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94117. This was after I
SF News Landlord Trying To Evict Duboce Triangle Artist Says His Family Really Is Just Trying To Move In Despite skepticism from anti-eviction activists, the owner of the building at 53-55 Walter Street where longtime tenant David Brenkus is facing an Ellis Act eviction has reached out to SFist to explain that
SF News Now Mayor Lee May Be Vetoing Jane Kim's Tenant Protection Legislation Remember that new tenant-protection ordinance introduced by Jane Kim and passed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors that would make it easier to add new roommates and harder to get evicted?
SF News Adding Roommates Made Easier, Evictions Made Harder After Board Of Supervisors Vote The Board of Supervisors took an extra step in tenant protections at Tuesday's meeting, voting to approve new legislation that makes it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants for minor violations, or
SF News Has The Pro-Tenant Law Regulating Buyouts Prompted More Evictions? A city law introduced by Supervisor David Campos and adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors to shed light on the practice of tenant buyouts might be having an unfortunate and unintended
SF News Landlords Now Forced To Publicly Disclose Tenant Buyouts, And We Have Numbers Following a city law introduced by Supervisor David Campos and adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors, landlords are for the first time reporting tenant buyout agreements to the Rent Board. That's
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 Ugly Landlord-Tenant Dispute In Sunset May Just Be A Case Of A Terrible Tenant Today's "gotta hear both sides" landlord-tenant dispute comes from ABC 7, and the landlord's lawyers are presenting it as a "case study" that argues renters are afforded too many rights and resources. The
SF News Bernal Heights Woman Who Was Given 400 Percent Rent Hike Moves Out Today Back in March, the story of Bernal Heights resident Deborah Follingstad getting pushed out of her home of ten years went viral around the Bay Area after she posted the notice from her
SF News This May Be San Francisco's Most Disgusting Apartment Building That seedy looking apartment building you see on the right as you're coming off the Central Freeway off-ramp at Octavia is actually more terrible inside than you already imagined. Some 40 tenants are
SF News [Update] Lawyer Behind Egregious Bernal Heights Rent Increase Gives Snide Statement Denouncing Rent Control The story that broke earlier this week about the longtime tenant in a Bernal Heights rent-controlled unit has continued to churn, despite the fact that the tenant herself seems to have no legal
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
SF News [Update] Landlord Uses Loophole In Rent Control Law To Raise Woman's Rent To $8900 Via a Facebook post over the weekend that's been going locally viral, several tipsters have been alerting SFist to a story that is likely to frighten anyone who's been enjoying the protection of
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News The Latest Chapter In The 1049 Market Saga: New Eviction Notices, Subpeona For Jane Kim The landlord of 1049 Market Street, the building filled with low-rent live-work units that some tenants have lived in over 15 years, appears to be getting desperate, and is going on the offensive
SF News Another 'Unique' Eviction Situation Hits Tenants Of Van Ness Mixed Use Building You may recall the ongoing tale of 1049 Market Street where over 100 people were displaced or nearly displaced from over 75 "live-work" units that had become primary residences for students and other
SF News Report: Palo Alto Has The Highest Rents In The US, SF Is #2 According to "rental marketplace" Lovely, though we here in San Francisco feel that we have dreadfully high rents, it could be worse: we could live in Palo Alto. The company's Q3 Rental Market
SF News Ellis Act Tenant Payouts Ruled Illegal A federal judge has struck down San Francisco's progressive legislation that counteracts the increased use of the Ellis Act to evict longterm tenants, as the Chron and others are reporting. In a ruling
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Storm Hayes Valley Shoe Store To Call Out Bad Landlord Paolo Iantorno, Serial Evictor, Assaults 3 People, Tries to Smash My Camera 16 Oct 2014 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo. A protest went down yesterday in Hayes Valley at the popular shoe store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners Of Cuco's Give Up Eviction Fight, Will Close On Monday Three months after the news broke that Lower Haight standby Cuco's was getting evicted, it's finally, sadly happening. According to Hoodline, the beloved Mexican/Salvadoran joint will close on Monday, after almost 23
SF News Ellis Act Payout Foes Vow To Take Case To Supreme Court Lawyers representing a coalition of developers and small-time landlords were in court yesterday arguing this case we previously reported on regarding Ellis Act payouts to tenants. The lawsuit is challenging the City of
SF News Has Your Building Been Earthquake-Shamed? The City of San Francisco has begun publicly shaming building owners who have not made necessary retrofits to their soft-story or wood-framed apartment buildings, or submitted a city questionnaire regarding their building's earthquake
SF News Have The New S.F. Tenant Protection Measures Done Any Good? It may be too soon to tell if any of the laws passed in the last two years protecting tenants and making evictions more expensive for landlords will ultimately have an impact on
SF News How Much Should You Get Paid If Your Landlord Wants To Buy You Out Of Your Rent-Controlled Apartment? There has been a notable increase in the last year or so probably among your friends in rent-controlled apartments, but also among people seeking counseling from the Tenants' Union of buyout offers by
SF News Landlord Advocates Sue City Over Ellis Act Legislation Tenant advocates scored a big win this year when a new local ordinance, sponsored by Supervisor David Campos, passed the Board of Supervisors with a veto-proof 9-2 vote, guaranteeing that tenants could no
