Comments on: Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Give A 24-Hour Notice For Entry That Lasts All Week?

By: Ahmad Al-Akkad

Ahmad Al-Akkad — Wed, 14 May 2014 01:33:00 +0000

I’m in a similar situation and want to know the answer to “Can your landlord serve a 24-hour notice that lasts for a week?” I also received a notice with no exact date. I want to know exactly how “approximated” a date can be.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:48:00 +0000

Dave seems to get his scripts directly from 1930’s Nazi hate speeches. To see what I mean, just re-read the paragraph below from today’s column and substitute the word “landlord” with the name of any group of people oppressed by the Nazis.

“You may ask yourself: Don’t these landlords have something better to do?
Can’t they simply enjoy their wealth? But those are rational inquiries.
You and I cannot begin to understand the irrational, compulsive actions
of a sociopath, a king, a dictator or a landlord.”

By: Tim Bracken

Tim Bracken — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0000

I have no data on this, but I would guess that the mental-illness rate among landlords is on par with the mental-illness rate among non-landlords. Unfortunately, when someone with power over your life acts irrationally, that’s a lot worse than when some random person on the street does it, but that does not mean that landlords as a group are more likely to be irrational sociopaths.

By: withak30

withak30 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:01:00 +0000

If they take their ball and go home then who will they get to be king of then?

By: liljenstolpe

liljenstolpe — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:40:00 +0000

Dave – I love how you paint all landlords with the same brush “You and I cannot begin to understand the irrational, compulsive actions of a sociopath, a king, a dictator or a landlord.” Yes there are whack jobs that are landlords – guess what, there are whack jobs that are tenants as well.

If you can’t, or don’t want, to assess each case on it’s individual basis, rather than assuming all landlords are sociopaths or worse, the value of your council and discourse is somewhat diminished.

I wonder what happens when more and more landlords just give up on San Francisco because it’s just not worth the frustration – oh, never mind, I forgot, we’re living through that now.

By: njudah

njudah — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:21:00 +0000

my experience is that landlords like this are usually people who are out of touch with reality, and in most cases, are not the original “owners” of the property – rather they’ve inherited it via a family trust or other such mechanism and don’t really appreciate or understand their role, or the benefits of STFU and just collecting the money.

a friend of mine had a similar problem with an insane landlord, who really wasnt the 100% owner (rather instead she was a part owner along with other family members who hated her for being insane) and her crazy antics got her routinely sued by tenants (Who always won) and ended up sending the building into receivership. if she’d just STFU and enjoyed her cash, all woulda been well and legal!