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A notorious San Francisco landlord, who has repeatedly come under fire for harassing and illegally evicting tenants, has been slapped with a $3.5 million judgment after a jury found her guilty of ousting a family from its home of 21 years to rent the unit at a higher price.
....Shortly after Kihagi bought the five-unit Hill Street building in 2014, McDonald said, she took a number of bewildering actions aimed at making life difficult for all of her rent-controlled tenants.
“At one point, all of a sudden, she reduced garbage services by half without telling tenants. She would shut off electricity in common areas, and she would retaliate if (tenants) complained. She wouldn’t call them back when repairs were needed,” he said.
....“She forced one tenant out of his longtime home as he battled terminal cancer,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement in May. “That breathtaking cruelty was matched only by her contempt for the law.”
In that case, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Angela Bradstreet ruled in a scathing, 154-page ruling that Kihagi had committed “outrageous, unlawful and fraudulent violations that were specifically targeted against often long-term tenants who were protected by San Francisco’s rent-control laws.”
Notorious SF landlord slapped with $3.5 million judgment for wrongful eviction
Good.
....Shortly after Kihagi bought the five-unit Hill Street building in 2014, McDonald said, she took a number of bewildering actions aimed at making life difficult for all of her rent-controlled tenants.
“At one point, all of a sudden, she reduced garbage services by half without telling tenants. She would shut off electricity in common areas, and she would retaliate if (tenants) complained. She wouldn’t call them back when repairs were needed,” he said.
....“She forced one tenant out of his longtime home as he battled terminal cancer,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement in May. “That breathtaking cruelty was matched only by her contempt for the law.”
In that case, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Angela Bradstreet ruled in a scathing, 154-page ruling that Kihagi had committed “outrageous, unlawful and fraudulent violations that were specifically targeted against often long-term tenants who were protected by San Francisco’s rent-control laws.”
Notorious SF landlord slapped with $3.5 million judgment for wrongful eviction
Good.
