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San Francisco family faces nightmare of splitting their dream home into apartments over petty complaint: ‘You guys are screwed’
New York Post ^ | March 11, 2026 | Mary K. Jacob

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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To: ConservativeMind

This could just as easily happened where the municipal government was more conservative. Building permits are not just a thing in Liberal areas. Especially a major conversion like what happened to this building.


81 posted on 03/11/2026 2:48:55 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: logi_cal869

Permits were not issued. Here’s the catch even if a permit had been issued the family would still be on the hook for the mistake. The city does not assume any liability for such an error. I don’t recall the exact legal reasoning but it may be similar to the “no duty of care” and “sovereign immunity” that covers other government bodies.


82 posted on 03/11/2026 2:56:28 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: nickcarraway

Ok...it’s an apartment that will never be rented...OR I rent to my family for $1 a month.


83 posted on 03/11/2026 2:57:58 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SaxxonWoods

How about the beach at Malibu after the fire.

All that old stuff on the shore that may be forbidden.

Hey, Malibu has lost so many of these units, period.


84 posted on 03/11/2026 3:00:14 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Leaning Right

Don’t be shocked, however, there is Liberal shit in RED states too, e.g., Florida, Texas, and others. No state is immune to voter fraud and human RAT waste. Did you vote for FU Biden in 2020, then how did he get illegally elected???

Every state must be examined for voter fraud; EVERY state.

California voter fraud FYI

Pakistanis Who Have Never Been to US Are Voting in California Elections from Inside Pakistan

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/pakistanis-who-have-never-been-us-are-voting/

San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Captain says voting records show people outside of the country, in Pakistan, are allowed to vote in the California elections.

The Sheriff’s Captain revealed this during a press conference in Sept 2025.

Investigative Reporter Nick Shirley Exposes Massive Voter Fraud in California (VIDEO)
Surprise!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/investigative-reporter-nick-shirley-exposes-massive-voter-fraud/

They will find that California is “First In The Nation” for all manner of fraud of every kind!

For all those who keep posting that California gets what they VOTED FOR!! Well, hell no, they don’t just like you didn’t get what you voted for in 2020, you got FU Biden because of this same voter fraud!!! Wake up to reality. Same goes in all Blue States as well as, yes, RED States. Just look at the RAT who was elected in Texas in a RED county.

Investigative reporter Nick Shirley traveled to California to expose voter fraud.

California does not require voter ID, and the state’s elections go on and on for weeks after Election Day.

With ballot harvesting, ballot curing, a lack of voter ID laws, and mass mail-in ballots, California’s elections are rife with fraud.

Last year, an Orange County, California, woman was arrested and charged with illegally registering her dog to vote and casting mail-in ballots in her dog’s name.

Laura Lee Yourex, 62, of Costa Mesa, illegally registered her dog to vote in California and cast ballots in her dog’s name in the 2021 Gavin Newsom recall election and the 2022 primary election.

According to Orange County DA Todd Spitzer, the dog’s vote was successfully counted in the 2021 election but was rejected in the 2022 primary.

Nick Shirley visited locations from California’s voter rolls and not one location could even verify its voter rolls.

A short list of issues Nick Shirley discovered:

– Irregularities in voter numbers per location

– 30+ people registered to one mail store

– Voters inaccurately aged at 125 years old

“Without any voter ID and negligence from the state government to update their voter rolls, California’s one-party state has created a complex system where fraud is inevitable in their voting process,” Nick Shirley said.


85 posted on 03/11/2026 3:03:29 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: BenLurkin
Isn’t this covered by title insurance?

The issue is how the property improvement is classified (single family dwelling vs. multi-family dwelling) not who holds title or ownership of the property.

86 posted on 03/11/2026 4:13:20 PM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: nickcarraway

In most places the government tries to stop you from turning one residence into more than one residence. Apparently in San Francisco it is the opposite.


87 posted on 03/11/2026 4:19:55 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: Hyman Roth

Would be better without Modine


88 posted on 03/11/2026 4:24:48 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Maskot

Very good point....


89 posted on 03/11/2026 4:26:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Dr Zhivago?


90 posted on 03/11/2026 4:37:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF ISR pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Oh grow up. I have little regard for Israel, because of their actions against America, and their arrogance that we “owe” them something.
I do not hate Jews as individuals at all, only a fool does that. I side with them when the moslem imports here attack them. The Pograms were real and Hitler wasn’t fake.
But the Israeli government today is a bunch of corrupt, bribing, spying, pedophile a-holes who are the worlds leaders in assassinating people. So no, I don’t like them.

But the local Jewish business owner of many businesses I patronize have about as much influence over Tel Aviv as I do over DC. And they make a mean hot-dog. Hebrew National rocks in my opinion. And the delis.... mmmmm.

But the term Jewish lightning has been around forever. And yes, it was a well used tactic to burn a building to get the fire insurance. It happened many times just as a business was failing financially. The Jewish gangster era in America was very real....


91 posted on 03/11/2026 4:37:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: nickcarraway

I used to listen to her. The babe in the bunker.


92 posted on 03/11/2026 4:39:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF ISR pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

same here
I would keep no vacancy - full of tenants
even if the tenants were my family or cats


93 posted on 03/11/2026 4:50:32 PM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly)
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To: nickcarraway

There is a company that you can hire/rent to, that will move in and be worse to the exiting squatters than they could expect. It can involve swords if memory serves correctly.


94 posted on 03/11/2026 5:00:43 PM PDT by Wbigly
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To: DesertRhino

Kike, hebe, hymie, jewboy they’ve been around forever too. Grow up, don’t run away. Just embrace your anti-Semitic views. They’re plain as day.


95 posted on 03/11/2026 5:52:38 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: nickcarraway

Liberal City officials: “We changed our minds. Too bad for you.”

I agree with those who posted sentiments about not residing in blue cities.


96 posted on 03/11/2026 6:23:58 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: dfwgator

I was trying to remember the name of that movie.

San Francisco seems like a good place for the real estate/horror genre.


97 posted on 03/11/2026 6:52:16 PM PDT by x
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Blow it out your tailpipe you silly emotional female.

I refuse to give up my ethnic and racial sayings. Indian givers, Red Dot Indians, Pakis, Jew ‘em down, the boss is a “Honcho” (Japanese), and although we cannot say the N word, someone who came into a few thousand dollars and started spending as though they were wealthy it was called “N rich”. Canadians are Hosers. Lousiana? Coons, Rosin bellies, and more. Rednecks, Nesters, Damn Yankees, Californians are prune pickers, libtards, etc. Limeys, Frogs, Dagos, etc...
Lyndsey Graham and Tom Cotton are Poofters, fairies, etc....you name it... it’s on.

I know I don’t stand a Chinaman’s chance of changing your mind and I don’t wanna wind up in a Mexican Standoff with you. And I am a honkey or a cracker...

NO special tippy toeing around the Jewish faith, so welcome to the party pal! Hell, your boy Epstein -constantly- referred to non-Jews as “Goyim”. Bible Thumpers, Holy Rollers, Huns, Blockheads, Papists, Mick, Dothead, etc. And should I even bother to mention Ragheads? Hajis? Camel Jockeys? So go bite a bagel you over-sensitive shmendrik.

See ya on the barricades.

PS... I suspect you never served in an Infantry unit. A sensible man would be a little hurt if nobody insulted their race, religion or ethnicity. Like you aren’t included.


98 posted on 03/11/2026 6:59:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember her!

Wasn’t she “The Babe In The Bunker”?

KSFO used to make for good morning listening. Rush was in the mix there somewhere.


99 posted on 03/11/2026 7:24:02 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Talk radio was a lot better in the past. Lee Rodgers, Rush, Savage. KGO was good too.

Unlistenable now.


100 posted on 03/11/2026 7:26:11 PM PDT by moviefan8
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