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'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.