Posted on 02/05/2018 1:52:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Anne Kihagi’s beleaguered tenants are now writing their rent checks directly to the city — to the tune of perhaps $120,000 a month
Dale Duncan is trying to be a nice guy. He’s trying real, real hard. But, sometimes, it’s just too much. Anne Kihagi is just too much. And not just sometimes.
“I’m not a big schadenfreude guy,” says the former Kihagi tenant who, last year, won a $3.5 million ruling against his erstwhile landlord after a fraudulent eviction from his family’s longtime Mission District flat — purportedly the largest such judgment in state history. “But,” he continues after a thoughtful pause, “It’s hard not to feel some schadenfreude right now.”
That’s because the city, which has already secured a $5.5 million judgment against Kihagi regarding her mountain of tenant harassment and unpermitted construction violations, this month has commenced collecting on that debt. It is doing so by collecting Kihagi’s rents.
“I just got the letter from the City Attorney,” affirms Sheila Hembury, a decades-long resident at 1135-1139 Guerrero, whom Kihagi has attempted — and failed — to evict on multiple occasions. “It said that now we should send our rent checks to the City and County of San Francisco.”
She has; Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith confirms that, even by late January, the rent checks were trickling in. Now those funds — which he estimates as upwards of $100,000 a month and perhaps more than $123,000 a month — will no longer go toward Kihagi hiring a small army of attorneys to fight every last legal move from the city or funding various illegal construction projects. They’ll go toward paying off her heaping fine. Or, more accurately, they’ll begin to pay off the interest on that fine, which has been accruing at 10
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So these deadbeats don’t pay and the Landlord gets screwed?
“..So these deadbeats don’t pay and the Landlord gets screwed?...”
That’s what it sound like. Welcome to the RATopia, known as SF.
She’s apparently a Capitalist Pig.
Truly Rent-seeking.
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.
You are not allowed to do that.
You are not allowed to threaten their pets, cut off their utilities, enter their apartments without reason, point cameras into their windows or put up a sign stating that one of your tenants runs a phone sex line. Especially when it is not true.
There is no mention of the tenants not paying their rent.
That’s what it sound like. Welcome to the RATopia, known as SF.
Where do you see anything about the 'deadbeats' not paying rent? The tenants are paying their rents to the city because of a $5.5 million judgement against the landlord.
The city will probably raise the rents when it realizes not enough money is coming in given the debt and the value of the properties.
Ah, so it's okay for the left to do that to its opponents (i.e., to hire a small army of attorneys to fight said opponents on every small niggling little point), but don't you dare do that to them or they'll seize the money with which you intend to pay the small army of lawyers.
“She’s apparently a Capitalist Pig.
Truly Rent-seeking.”
She is the kind of sociopathic monster that give fair minded ethical capitalists a bad name. Check the facts in this matter.
This woman is a real pice of work, and she’s Black!
Take a look!
https://www.antievictionmap.com/anne-kihagi-ana-swain/
“Rent-seeking occurs when an individual or business attempts to make money from its resources without using those resources to benefit to society or generate wealth.”
“The city will probably raise the rents when it realizes not enough money is coming in given the debt and the value of the properties.”
I have second-hand knowledge of the way rent control works in SF by reason of friends from Nevada who purchased a five unit building on Telegraph Hill a decade ago. This Kihagi woman is a piece of work, but San Francisco’s Renters laws make owning rental property in the city a chancy business. They bought the place so that they would have a unit to stay in when they were in town. But they could not evict a tenant and the end of a lease, so they had to wait years to be able to have an apartment in a building they owned. It was only by chance that one of the tenants got himself a GF in the Central Valley and left voluntarily.
Well since the article reads that the rent they pay is now going to the city I don’t think you can make that assumption.
It was not about tenants not paying rent. It was about actions such as, “It wasn’t enough for Kihagi to attempt to hound elderly people out of her buildings or cut off their electric or water or leave the front door busted so vagrants could amble in and befoul the foyer. It wasn’t enough to point “security” cameras at residents’ doors and windows reducing life in a Kihagi building to time served in the panopticon; it wasn’t enough to wander, uninvited, into tenants’ dwellings; it wasn’t enough to disable the mailbox so that elderly renters had to travel miles to the post office on the off-chance they were given a three-day eviction notice. “
She was an abusive landlord. They do exist.
Only governments at all levels are allowed to use lawyers and drag proceedings out to bankrupt citizens. Citizens are not allowed to defend themselves from government.
Many years ago a low-rent landlord in Galveston, when he had a no-pay, would remove the screens from the windows.
In the summertime, with windows closed the heat was miserable. Open the windows and the mosquitoes feasted.
Another deadbeat-tenant pimped-out his underage girlfriend, but it was only when he was threatened by someone else that he abandoned the place. While straightening up the yard, I passed by his visiting Dad who attended a BBQ. He spoke on that single occasion with, "I'm sorry". (I'd said nothing to him).
Later, his girlfriend tried to "settle accounts"—using her body as payment!
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Landlords don’t have the right to terrorize the tenants. Disabling the mail boxes, turning off the utilities and opening the security door to allow bums to wander the hallways was abusive.
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