Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street

[LisaM]

30. While it's sometimes hard to sympathize with wealthy homeowners......

I can't say I think much of the couple who "bought" the street, who seem like rampant opportunists. I can't believe the city didn't do more to contact the residents. I mean, really, you "love" San Francisco and now you "own" part of it - land where you can charge people to park in front of their own houses (or worse, create a gig economy de-facto parking lot).

I knew someone who was a tax vulture, or whatever you want to call them, and would spend hours looking up to see where someone might have missed a tax payment, and then go tack up notices on trees in the woods stating all the land would revert to him in the event the taxes weren't paid. He wasn't all that nice a person, so I have little patience with this sort of activity, especially when someone's just trying to line her or his own pockets.