According to the US Supreme Court, a government can do ANYTHING it wants if it simply calls it a “tax”.
—and , as with virtually everything the left does, it boils down to taking from people who “make” to give to those who wish to use the power of government to “take”—
Vote Communist, don't act shocked when Communism is enacted.
Anybody thinking SF is a great place, watch the movie “Pacific Heights.”
It would be easier for them to “accidentally see” their tenant tumble head-over-heels down a flight of stairs.
I asked Levin about his politics. “I’m a lifelong Democrat myself,” he told me. “My wife is, too. We vote that way.” It bothers the couple that there’s no means-testing for tenants, that people with six-figure incomes enjoy a windfall that small-property owners can ill afford.
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Where’s my microscopic violin? They got what they voted for.
We haven’t owned our own property for a long time - until that is rectified, we are lost.
The Levin’s made a few mistakes...one is buying a home in San Fran...
I asked Levin about his politics. “I’m a lifelong Democrat myself,” he told me. “My wife is, too. We vote that way.”
I don’t understand why they would be complaining, this is for the “Little Guy”. HaHaHA.
What a waste of such a beautiful place
Neutron bomb and start all over
I find this alone to be insane. Much less the rest of it.
Pure evil.
Pretty soon there will be no rental properties in pervtown
I have no sympathy for this couple. This is what they voted for!
With rules like that, there will be no rental properties at all. How does this help the poorer residents long term? Oh, there won’t be any.
Stick a penny in the fuse box and burn it down
It might be that the only way out of this is eviction by oxidation, where the newly bare lot will be worth more than the lot plus house with the very expensive renter.
“”On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a Bill Clinton appointee, found the ordinance unconstitutional””
Is it unconstitutional or not? It is written as tho’ the law is being enforced regardless of the court action and opinion! I don’t get it.
We have friends who bought a four unit apartment house on Telegraph Hill that was fully rented when they purchased it (probably 15 years ago). For the first year or more, when they came to town (their primary residence was out of state) all they could do was stay in a hotel and have lunch on the rooftop garden of their property. Then the city came in and required earthquake retrofitting (which required that they “relocate” the first and second floor tenants at their expense while the work was being done). They managed to “payoff” the second floor tenant so they would agree not to come back. So now, after a couple of years, they could actually stay in their own building. But they wanted to occupy the penthouse, which was at the time occupied by a 60 plus year old single accountant (this is important because the rules are more stringent for people over 60 is SF). After five years, somehow their third floor tenant moved out and they were able to “move up,” but the penthouse seemed elusive. But finally luck hit, the penthouse occupant got himself a girlfriend ( I guess there is sex after 60) who lived out in the Valley and he left. So it took them ten years to get to live in the top floor unit of their own building. Their only other option at the time of purchase would have been to kick everyone out ( with suitable cash for leaving) and agree to not rent any part of the building for ten years.
What’s really funny is that they are a childless couple who are both very liberal RATS, so it’s been interesting to see how laws that seemingly they support (but for thee not for me though) work against them. The other issue is SF’s rent control statutes only allow landlords to raise rents no more than 60% of the actual increase in the COL each year, which results in landlords not having the means to maintain their properties. Go figure.
It would have been easier for the tenant to have an accident.
This amounts to “exploitation” (to use Rat jargon) of hardworking property owners pure and simple. Of course, Rats with high level political-connections get waivers from these very laws.