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• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Will The Board Of Supes' Soft-Story Retrofit Requirement End Up Costing Me A Bundle?
  20 years is already a long time for a landlord, who has to find financing for in the example above, $320,000 in the best case. I'm not sure many commercial loans would be over more than 20 years....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: My Landlord's Threatening To Evict Me Because I Have A Live-In Caregiver
  If the landlord fixes the bell after the tenant issues a NoV, then the case for having the boyfriend in (to respond to the door) falls apart. The whole problem is that tenant has a foot injury, so cannot walk...
• Commented on Goodies by Anna: Goodies Bakery, My Gingerbread House 2012
  There needs to be a like or +1 button on this page.This is quite amazing....
• Commented on Supe Calls For Tougher Rules For Private Shuttle Buses
  Making it more difficult for shuttle is quite a boneheaded move. Shuttles are good: fewer cars, less traffic. What's wrong with this?...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Am I Still The Master Tenant If I Moved Out Of My Apartment For Six Years?
  Here's a tenant who did not live in the place for 6 years and still believes that he is entitled not only to a rent-controlled, below-market unit, but that he could also maybe evict an unpleasant roommate. Tenants who abuse...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Does My Landlord Have To Fix My Broken Dishwasher?
  This reminds me of my landlord in the Sunset who, when the FRIDGE broke down, refused to repair it, but "kindly" offered to SELL US a new one. And guess what? My roommate AGREED. So the scumbag landlord buys a...
• Commented on Smokin' Fast: Unfit at Any Speed
  Great idea for a series. Looking forward to CIM training tips!...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Can I Be Evicted For Adding A Roommate?
  I have a somewhat related question. I've heard somewhere that it would be bad for the landlord to send a 3 days notice to cure in the case of a tenant breaking the lease with an additional roommate, because it...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Can I Get Away With Putting My Apartment On Airbnb?
  How is landlord a dishonorable profession? I don't understand this throwaway comment (even though I salute the overall advice of honesty). Not everyone can be a home owner, you'll always have need to rent property. There's nothing dishonorable with providing...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: My New Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent For "Operating And Maintenance Expenses Passthrough"
  Add up the interest for each year since the last increase (do not compound). That's the max allowable rent increase. http://www.sftu.org/annualincrease.html So for 3 year anniversary, it would be 2.5% (1.9+0.5+0.1)....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: My New Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent For "Operating And Maintenance Expenses Passthrough"
  I'll add my landlord anecdotal evidence: I moved in the city in 1997, in a 3 unit building, owned by a painter/contractor who lived in the bottom unit and rented out the upper two floors. I then moved to a...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: My New Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent For "Operating And Maintenance Expenses Passthrough"
  Since Dave used my comment to make the case for the repeal of Costa-Hawkins, I looked up what it was. Here's an article from the Berkeley Daily Planet (a rather liberal outfit) on the topic: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-12-17/article/9018 The article states, that...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: A Rent Increase Question Puts The "Lord" In Landlord
  This is comment bait, but I'll bite. - all landlords are not the 1%. This is a ridiculous claim. Yeah, it was imposed in SF because of a 1% greedy assbag Angelo Sangiacomo. But most are mom-and-pop landlords who buy...
• Commented on Fight Over Son's Custody Led to Mirkarimi Fight, Second Alleged Domestic Incident of 2011
  I think it should be said that the kid is like 2yo, so the "daddy made a boo-boo" line is to be taken with a grain of salt. A 2yo is a highly unreliable witness....
• Commented on Barry Bonds Sentenced To Home Confinement, Community Service
  I'm going to go for a ride and speed on 280 tonight just so I can go to Project 20 when Barry is doing is community service....
• Commented on In Haight Street Skateboard Murder, Alleged Killer Confesses, Goes Free
  Hopefully this article prods the DA into action....
• Commented on BART Defends Decision To Cut Off Cell Service After Civil Rights, FCC Concerns Raised
  Nice reporting, but I'm kinda with Greg on that one. Since when is cellular phone coverage a right? Is sprint impeding free speech because their network coverage is smaller than verizon's? What about the people in Honeydew, Mendocino County with...
• Commented on Art Added To SFO Terminal
  the most surreal art at SFO is the corridor between terminal 1 and terminal 3 in the lower level of the International Terminal, the one you take if you don't want to take AirTrain out of BART, and just walk...
• Commented on The SF Bay Guardian Wins Its Case Against The SF Weekly: So, What's Next?
  The discrepancy in web visits to the weekly and to the guardian is pretty dramatic. Is there a break-down on how they respectively account their on-line traffic? The biggest loss if the weekly shuts down shop would be the food...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Losing Your Security Deposit For Subletting?
  I am misreading this, but it seems it's not the landlord who is not returning the security deposit to the tenant, it's the master tenant to the subletter....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Is My Building's High Water Bill My Problem?
  Isn't there a pass-through for water. I thought it was voted in order to give incentives to tenants to conserve water? Also, there is nothing illegal with the visit of the landlord, I would believe. The landlord showed up, and...
• Commented on Help Some Appeal Contributors Out-1 Down, 1 To Go!
  How is San Francisco represented in the media. I know: The embarcadero is backwards in Nash Bridges. San Francisco is represented the wrong way....
• Commented on SFIFF: Gainsbourg (Je t'aime...moi non plus)
  Serge Gainsbourg is a cult figure among the French. Je t'aime...moi non plus (I love you...me neither) is the title of a movie he directed, where the plot is about a truck driver having a love affair in the back...
• Commented on Composer Mason Bates And His Silicon Blues
  Excellent interview, thanks....
• Commented on Things San Franciscans Like: These Boots
  Fair enough. I'll look for them boots on caltrain and report back....
• Commented on How Will SF's Boycott Of Arizona Businesses Apply To Phoenix-Based SF Weekly?
  If the boycott means (as Campos initially suggested) prohibiting city employees from business trips to AZ, then it's the right thing to do. You don't want to put them at risk of arbitrary arrest. Beyond that, as the sf weekly...
• Commented on SF On Track To Break Last Year's Homicide Record
  Technically, we're on track for 6 more homicides than last year. So falling a bit behind the pace to break the record. If you could wait a month before killing anyone else, then we'd have a shot at the record....
• Commented on Attention Local Writers: Is A Start Up Using Your Good Name To Get Contributors?
  They really like your writing, and they sent you an invite to participate. To editor@sfappeal....
• Commented on Riding the Zip Line at Justin Herman Plaza
  Any weight limits? Or would they turn away your average 6'5"/240lb sorry ass? Also, height/age limit, like you have to be this ---- big to ride the line?...
• Commented on You're Not Getting (Publicly) Laid At Folsom This Year
  Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs....