handiwork of "landlords from hell"

[Liberal_in_LA]

'Landlords from hell' deal includes prison time

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Landlords-from-hell-deal-includes-prison-time-4610530.php#photo-4807813



A photograph provided by the district attorney's office showing one of the holes cut into the tenants' apartment floor. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon announced that Kip and Nicole Macy, the so-called landlords from hell, had plead to several felony counts that will put them in prison for over four years for trying to evict tenants from their South of Market building. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle



A photograph provided by the District Attorneys office showing the cut support beams below an apartment belonging to the Macys.

Under a plea agreement, they are to be sentenced in August to four years and four months behind bars, Gascón said. Until then, they are in County Jail on $2 million bail each.

Authorities say the Macys tried to force their tenants out by making their property at 744-746 Clementina St. practically uninhabitable from 2005 to 2007. Among their actions were threatening the tenants, stealing their belongings, changing locks, cutting telephone lines and shutting off gas and power.

At one point, the Macys doused the victims' beds, clothes and electronics in ammonia, authorities said. They also directed workers to board over windows while

the tenants were still inside, cut out sections of support beams under the building to make them vulnerable to collapsing, and sawed holes through the floors.

[SummerSnow]

1. I had my share of bad landlords

I had one who left a loaded rifle in the house on move in day and my children found it. They said mom there's a big gun in our room.So I went in and there it was up against the wall.Good thing they were afraid to touch it

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. omg

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Did they try and charge the tenants for the damage?

[tularetom]

5. No they wanted the tenants to move out so they could demolish the building and sell the land

Apparently they had a deal to sell the property to some developer for a handsome profit but the tenants had leases and refused to give them up. The owners would have had to buy them out of the leases in order to sell the land.

All the harassment was a means to an end - namely, get the tenants to voluntarily abandon their leases so the property could be sold.

[magellan]

4. Holy crap, these two were out of control

It's amazing they were allowed to continue this reckless abuse and endangerment of their tenants for so long.

Four years and four months, they'll probably be out in two. smh