Notorious landlord Anne Kihagi lost all of her SF properties a couple years ago, but her long-suffering tenants are still in the courts with her, and she just lost an appeal of a seven-year-old harassment case.
Longtime readers of this blog may recall the recurring story of “San Francisco’s cruelest landlord” Anne Kihagi, who at the peak of her San Francisco landlording in 2015, had about 50 properties across the city. Many of these generated horror stories alleging she terrorized rent-controlled tenants who didn’t take the buyout, in some cases cutting their utilities, accusing a 70-year-old grandmother of being a drug dealer, and pulling relative-move-in evictions with an implausible number of so-called relatives. Kihagi was jailed in 2017 for similar cases in West Hollywood, and ultimately, Mission Local reported in 2019 her remaining properties were placed in receivership, making San Francisco’s cruelest landlord no longer a San Francisco landlord.
Two months after that, Kihagi was even sued by her own attorney for non-payment of legal bills, much like she allegedly didn’t her properties’ utility bills.
Kihagi may not have properties in San Francisco anymore, but the legal shoes continue to drop. The Chronicle has the news that a $2.7 million harassment decision against her was upheld on appeal. That was an appeal of a $3.5 million harassment and wrongful eviction lawsuit from 2017, a ruling described by SFGate at the time as the “largest in a single-unit...
Read Full Story: https://sfist.com/2021/09/03/sfs-cruelest-landlord-back-in-news-tenants-win-2-7-million-harassment-appeal/
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