Comments on: A Portrait In Ellis: Inner Richmond Tenants Face Eviction Threat From Investor Who Admits To Real Estate Conspiracy

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By: Harry Mann

Harry Mann — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:01:00 +0000

The first rental apartment I ever had, when I moved in the walls were freshly painted with yellowish paint and the wall furnace was painted brown. I repainted the place so that it was all light pastel and painted the bathroom a blue/gray; there were vinyl stick on floor tile in the kitchen cabinet. I prepped the floor and pasted them. It would have been a nice studio accept for the fact that a neighbor down the street was obsessed about controlling the woman in the apartment next door; his ex-wife. Meanwhile, he was camped out half a block away, shacked up with his girlfriend. The neighbor upstairs occasionally slapped his exquisitely tall wife around. A very unique and beautiful cousin of mine had been strangled to death not more than a block away, and everyone had strong suspicions that her ex was the perpetrator. I moved and later on the maintenance crew leader accused me of driving up everyone’s rent, because the property owner had seen what I did with my unit and had then made cosmetic improvements on other units as they turned over, and raised the rent. I hardly consider it something to feel bad about, though. I moved into the apartments near SFSU. I paid a year’s rent in advance to the finance office. On move in day, I noticed someone else was occupying the unit. I was later told that I didn’t qualify to rent there. By that point they’d had my money for two weeks. All of my business checks, cards, documents of all kinds listed that address. I ended up taking the dumpier unit next door. I should have had them reduce the rent amount. The two units were quite different in aesthetic appearance, one was much cleaner than the other. After I opened the apartments front door, a neighbor showed up right away to let me know that he lived in the apartment below mine and that any sound from my apartment could be heard in his apartment; and then he gave me what amounted like a bitter and begrudging welcome. Do you know that turd was either drunk, drugged or high 3 to 4 days out of the week? I am talking about a guy who thought he could keep his stereo or TV way up, as if it were going to drown out the sound of him shouting, screaming, pleading, crying, begging, slamming doors and beating doors with his fists. Now, the neighborhood itself was quite beautiful. The setting, near the lake, not far from the ocean, lots of beautiful golf courses in the area and woods. In every setting I have rented in I have soon discovered that I had plenty of neighbors who were trash. People pull drama out of their rectums just to have something to do. When you run into some of these aggressive extroverts, it’s like they are spilling their trash everywhere whenever they open their mouths. Personally, I’d be ashamed to behave the way they do, not because I am timid, but out of plain and simple self respect and with regards and consideration towards other human beings. But neighbors who tend to be nasty, trashy, loud and aggressive, basically stunted in their mental and emotional development; I guess you could say that once they are “grown up adults” they believe that they can let their inner child lose on the world. No one seems to be striving towards emotional and psychological maturity any more. Far too many of the elderly are also embracing their diabolical inner child.

By: Harry Mann

Harry Mann — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:29:00 +0000

Marina, you sound like you should be in business for yourself. As you have noticed, many people seem to go around in a mental fog day in and day out. I am out of the country right now and staying in a youth hostel. All of the reckless, irresponsible and inconsiderate behaviors you have described are daily apparent here as well. But at least these are relative youth on vacation who intend on being drunk and stoned much of the time and who will take whatever they can find out to eat, knowing they never bought it. If they borrow your lighter and walk off with it you will have to track them down in order to determine where they left it. They lost their own, they will lose yours just as readily. No. You sound very responsible, which is an important trait that many people do not have. I worked as a security guard for a year, because I could afford to. I took a massive pay cut to do so. I was stationed in a luxury condo building. The majority of the people living there were well educated, intelligent, thoughtful people and they kept on top of things by electing a representative to look after their common interests. The elected representative did not receive any compensation and it was a thankless job that brought them into conflicts between condo owners. Your fellow tenants, though, sound more along the lines of my coworkers, most of whom were recent immigrants and who lacked higher education. You are right to leave the fire alarm alone and to let the fire department handle it, by the way. When we turned off the fire alarm it was clear that we were opening up the security company and the property management company to liability. But, yes, the tenants in your building seem to exercise the same lack of common sense many of my coworkers exhibited. It was an interesting contrast, the security officers and the condo owners. When I first arrived, there were cockroaches coming out of the cabinets at the security desk! This was in a luxury building and the security desk was located in the lobby! People were occasionally being locked into the elevators when they failed to work properly. Everyone knew the elevators had a mind of their own and so there was always that possibility. And yes, never expose yourself to liability by turning off the fire alarm. Call the fire alarm company or the fire department. Those who take on responsibility are held as being responsible by the irresponsible.

By: Harry Mann

Harry Mann — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:53:00 +0000

Marina, it is a damn shame what the City is doing in that regard. I have noticed that the City is taking claim of the streets in every neighborhood in order to gain revenue; they are putting up signs limiting parking to two hours in residential neighborhoods and then sending out a force of young, uneducated employees in three wheeled vehicles to ticket every vehicle they can. It adds to the stress in the liberal / progressive City when you know that from the moment you park the “meter” is running. It’s as if they were saying that they offer you two hours of free parking in front of your own home, after that, it is going to cost you dearly.

By: Marina Francisco

Marina Francisco — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:22:00 +0000

I would have to earn an additional $40,000 a year in gross income to afford an equivalent apartment in my neighborhood if I moved out. To actually upgrade my living conditions would take a heck of a lot more than that. So, rent control has given me a strong disincentive to move as in these economic times I don’t think I would want to put myself in the perilous situation of HAVING to make that additional $40-60K a year JUST for housing. But you know that old adage “if you want something done, give it to a busy man?” I think that would kick in if I did find myself in that situation. I would just generally become more productive in every aspect of my life. Out of sheer panic if nothing else 🙂

By: Marina Francisco

Marina Francisco — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:29:00 +0000

PS Harry you might wonder why I didn’t just sweep up the glass when I found it. I was very tempted, but I couldn’t reach the shard hanging down and I thought it was unsafe for people to walk under it – so I left everything the way it was and improvised with the boxes (which worked great, nobody drove or walked down as I wrote on the boxes “USE #### DRIVEWAY NEXT DOOR”).

Plus, it’s not my job to fill in for an absentee property manager. Although since I do like to live in a clean environment, I do sometimes clean stuff up. One night I was out at 3:30 am letting my dog pee, and our compost bin was out at curbside for pickup and a couple of drunk guys came by and knocked it over, spilling it all over the sidewalk. I put on some rubber gloves and put the compost back in the bin then got a bucket and washed down the sidewalk so you couldn’t tell it had happened.

If everybody in San Francisco just picked up after themselves, and kept just the sidewalk outside their building clean, this city would sparkle.

By: Marina Francisco

Marina Francisco — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:20:00 +0000

I used to have two cars – my mom bought a vintage sports car and gave it to me (money pit, I eventually sold it). That’s why I got two spaces. Then when I sold the sport car, I kept the second space because I have frequent visitors and in this neighborhood, people can’t park more than 2 hours without moving their car between 8 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday. I work from home on a project basis and when I am prepping a project I have people come over and help me and it’s not very efficient to have them have to go out and move their cars every two hours.

The spaces are open carport spaces – we are not allowed to store anything in them, and if we did it would get stolen.

I often lend the second space to neighbors in the building (or the neighborhood). Like, when they have family visiting who rent a car, etc.

But yeah, it doesn’t cost me much and it’s worth its weight in gold for the convenience of having a second space. Another consequence of rent control.

By: Marina Francisco

Marina Francisco — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:11:00 +0000

The offsite property manager has publicly blogged about how he doesn’t believe in the California law that says you have to have an on-site manager, and since the law (a) doesn’t say the on-site manager actually has to DO anything and (b) there are no penalties if you violate the law, he has an “in-name-only” resident manager who does NOTHING.

So, if you’re locked out, don’t call them – call a locksmith and pay $100. If your bathtub overflows, call a plumber or, if it’s a non-emergency, call them and they’ll send a plumber out the next day. If a lightbulb in the hallway is burned out? Call them and they’ll have someone come over and replace it. They are off-site but they handle EVERYTHING.

So when our defective building fire alarm goes off at 2 am? We have to call the fire department, or go down and turn it off and then call the alarm company to come and turn it back on.

I used to walk the building to check for smoke or fire before going down and turning it off … then I thought that I was probably exposing myself to liability by doing that so now I don’t touch it.

When new tenants move in, the off-site manager doesn’t even tell them where the garbage chute or recycling bins are. So the recycling rate is low.

The tenants keep their own apartments pristine but don’t pick up after themselves otherwise so if they come home drunk with an open container of beer and spill it? The stairs stay stained for several days until the cleaning people come (and they’re crappy at their job).

Worst example of the effect of this hands-off policy? A couple of months ago a tenant over the driveway that leads back to the carport, had a friend and his mother visiting from India. His window over the fire escape was the old two-pane sash window with a broken pull cord. He forgot to tell them that. So the mother one afternoon unlocked the window and it went crashing down – the pane of glass shatterered and went raining down onto the driveway cement. Except, we have pigeon netting so a lot of it got stuck in that. One shard, about 2 feet long, was dangling through the pigeon netting about 10′ above the driveway like a guillotine.

I heard this but didn’t know what it was. Then about 4:30 pm I went down to my car and saw all the glass. I called the off-site manager (who ONLY has voicemail which he checks twice a day, you can’t reach him in person) and left a message that this was urgent – potential damage to car tires, and also dangerous for people walking underneath the dangling glass.

No response of course.

So I went back upstairs, made up signs on my printer, found two cardboard boxes in the recycling bin, put the signs on the boxes, then placed one box at the entry to the driveway and the other at the back so that tenants would not drive (or walk) down the driveway. Fortunately the building next door has an identical carport and there’s no fence so we could go in and out their driveway.

If I had not done that? I hesitate to think how angry the other tenants would have been. And of course the guy whose window it was – it never occurred to him to go down and sweep up the glass. Nor could he have reached the glass that was dangling (and it would have been dangerous for him to try).

The landlord sent someone out the next day at NOON. They did a horrible job sweeping up the glass so I had to walk around through the neighbor’s driveway because – well, my dog doesn’t wear shoes! Then I went out myself and spent an hour with a broom and a flashlight (to light up the glass pieces and make them visible) and swept everything up.

I got so sick of new tenants leaving their garbage in the wrong places (one girl seemed to survive on take-out chinese food and was too dumb to find the garbage chute so she just started leaving her garbage in the main garage) … so I put up signs.

I swear, most of the other tenants know me and I’m the one they turn to when they have questions or problems (I drove one neighbor to the airport at 6 am on Xmas morning in my pajamas when SuperShuttle didn’t show up). But as the building turns over and young inconsiderate yuppies move in who scream in the hallway, smoke pot, have loud sex and invite their idiot friends over for parties until 4 am, I get less and less interested in being neighborly, which is a pity.

By: Harry Mann

Harry Mann — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:44:00 +0000

It is funny that you keep saying the building looks like crap and was built to look like crap and yet you don’t want to move because your rent is relatively and absolutely low in comparison to today’s rental market; only, because of your intransigence you are losing perhaps as much money as your landlord is because you have become economically complacent. Good personal insight.

By: Harry Mann

Harry Mann — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 05:38:00 +0000

You sound like you would make a decent on site property manager for the owner.