Posted on 03/11/2026 11:20:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Katelin Holloway and Ben Ramirez thought they had found their forever home when they purchased a spacious North Beach property for $4.75 million in 2021 — a four-story residence with five bedrooms, sweeping skyline views and room for their growing family.
Instead, the couple is now facing the possibility that the house must be carved back into four separate apartments after city officials determined the building was improperly converted from a multi-unit property years before they bought it, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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According to city officials and tenant advocates, the building had previously been altered from a four-unit apartment complex into a single-family residence without proper permits. That means the structure is still officially classified as a multi-unit property in municipal records — and may have to be restored to that configuration.
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Isn’t this covered by title insurance?
“the building was improperly converted from a multi-unit property years before they bought”
…this sounds to me like the title company eats this. If they chose to pay for title insurance. Which may be law in CA. Not so in some states.
Another example of why you have to escape liberal-run governments.
Their first mistake was choosing to live/buy a house in San Francisco.
Around that time she had this nice, young couple on her show a few times. They had a rental property in San Francisco. The tenants stopped paying rent. They tried to evict them, but the city basically ruled that the tenants could stay, and didn't have to pay rent, and put a restraining order against the owners from going to the house. So, they had to pay mortgage and property taxes, but they couldn't get rent, or even visit the property.
I always wondered what happened to this couple.
I thought some Freeper might remember.
I believe Barbara Simpson is still alive, and will soon turn 89.
See post #7.
You’re right. If something good happens in a Democrat-run city these days, it is only by accident.
People thought Dr Zhivago was just a movie.
It’s the blueprint for California.
Seems to me the city lost the right to make such a claim when they issued permits to modify it.
The issue should be resolved not by going back to a lack of permits the current owners were not responsible for, but a simple inspection of the structure as it is today and whether or not it passes muster. If it does, that should end the matter. If changes are necessary based on standards of what the structure should be as a one family unit now, then the owners should be permitted to make those changes and end the matter there.
Katelin Holloway Is a Democrat who donated to Joe Biden and the far-left Future Now Fund of Texas. Accordingly, I don’t care what happens to them
My solution would be to put separate locks on each bedroom, and call each bedroom a residence, rent each bedroom to the kids as well as one for Mom and Dad, and voila -- a broading house on paper. Complete with rental documents from "residents" to "owner."
“Do we really want to say, as a city, ‘If you buy a $5 million house and claim ignorance, that we’re going to make an exception for you and say the law does not apply to you?’” said Meg Heisler, policy director of the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
No
That scene and others but particularly the one when Yuri comes home from battle to the home turned into apartments haunts me.
The other one is the character played by Rod Steiger who I never did like and don’t to this day in anything he ever played.
Strelnikov loathed everyone, including himself.
A little bit of local color... There are 100s of tri-plexes and 4-plexes in that zone (North Beach, Chinatown, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill) that are pretty much identical to the “house” that this family purchased. If you buy a “house” that looks nothing like a single-family home, but rather looks like all the other multi-unit properties in the neighborhood, the fact that it IS a multi-unit property (that was converted) shouldn’t come as an enormous surprise. Of course if the unpermitted status of the conversion was concealed or missed by the real estate professionals involved in the transaction, that would likely be grounds for recourse for the buyers.
Property is theft. Expropriate the Expropriators.
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