SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's Beloved Cuco's Getting Evicted, Again Remember that utterly disreputable, monstrous Lower Haight landlord who circulated a letter to his tenants a couple months back saying there was a new requirement for tenants that they have a minimum annual
SF News Pinterest's Move Into San Francisco Design Center Halted By Board Of Supes [Updated] Updated: Pinterest's deal to move into 2 Henry Adams Street is pretty much dead. Today, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use & Economic Development Committee voted to table the building's request for landmark
SF News Pinterest Looks To Move To Design District, Forcing Eviction Of Small Businesses Small design showrooms in the Design District are crying foul as landlords do their best to cash in on the crazy office rents being commanded around SoMa. Pinterest has signed a deal to
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 Lower Haight Landlord Wants You To Forget About That $100K Rent Requirement When Hoodline first reported that a Lower Haight landlord presented tenants with a letter that appeared to require a $100,000 minimum in income, the response was fast and furious. The outrageous and
SF News Lower Haight Landlord Won't Let You In Bed For Less Than $100,000 Just a few years ago, Haight and Fillmore was derided as "dicey" (or worse). But these days, at least one landlord appears intent on driving the average San Franciscan out of the area,
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 Landlord Once Again Intimidating, Evicting 1049 Market Tenants Landlord John Gall appears to be doing an end-run in order to empty his property at 1049 Market Street of all its tenants, despite there being dozens of legal, occupied residential units and
SF News S.F. Evictions At Their Highest Point Since 2002 Between March 2013 and the end of February 2014, landlords in San Francisco filed 1,977 eviction notices — the most since Kozmo.com was still a thing in 2001. Meanwhile, use of the
SF News Mid-Market Tenants Win Another Reprieve From Eviction Last we heard about the embattled tenants of 1049 Market Street, the remaining group of them who have not moved of their own accord (it remains unclear just how many there are, but
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
Arts & Entertainment Note From A Capp Street Eviction Party Uptown Almanac's Kevin Montgomery attended his first eviction party last week. Some of you might recall the bratty eviction parties from the days of yore (or as recently as 2010) where entitled twentysomethings
SF News Landlord Tries to Oust Low-Income Tenants, City Intervenes The owners of 639 Geary Street issued letters last month to 33 low-income tenants informing them that their rents were going to be raised to market rates after more than 20 years of
SF News Flush With Prospective Renters, Landlords Now Charging Application Fees You've heard the unfortunate news, right? With a shiny new tech boom getting into full swing, apartment hunting in S.F. is once again a contact sport that may require you to maim
SF News Millionaire Slum Lord Accused of Arson Plot Roach motel owner, millionaire, and Tiburon resident, Richard Singer, has been arrested and is facing a ten year prison sentence, a $125,000 fine, and arson charges for allegedly plotting to torch his
SF News Supervisors Mar & Daly Propose Sweeping Tenants Rights Laws New laws proposed and authored by City Supervisors Eric Mar and Chris Daly last fall and receiving their final votes yesterday would make it illegal for landlords to a) impose banked rent increases,
SF News More Laws Protecting Renters, a Good Thing? There have been four new laws proposed this year that would make it harder for landlords to raise rents and evict tenants. Three of the laws would increase the rights of rent-controlled tenants
SF News Evil Landlords Arrested for Tenant Abuse Software engineer Kip Macy, 33, and real estate agent Nicole Macy, 32, were arrested the other day for "waging a war of terror"on their tenants occupying their six-unit, three-story SOMA house. It
