recommended website<\/a> and found this list of how terrible CitiApartments\/Skyline is. From that site:<\/p>\n* Showing up at tenant’s doors late at night with a couple of big guys, for “inspections”
\n The law says they have to be “announced” and appear at a “reasonable time”. Dude, just tell them to come back tommorrow!<\/strong><\/p>\n* Snooping around tenants’ apartments on false pretenses like inspections, and then looking for things they can use against tenants
\nWhat illegal activities were you hiding?<\/strong><\/p>\n* Telling tenants “we can do this the easy way, or the hard way”
\n So you did something that caused the building to be condemned, got caught and the landlord asked you to leave. It was time to quit yesterday. Why didn’t you just leave?<\/strong><\/p>\n* setting up tables in the lobby with a photo copier and demanding ID from tenants
\n Huh?<\/strong><\/p>\n* putting notices up saying tenants aren’t allowed in the building
\n Wha?<\/strong><\/p>\n* refusing to repair elevators in buildings full of seniors
\n If the elevator is in the lease, make them fix it. If not…<\/strong><\/p>\n* telling tenants they will call the FBI, homeland security, or immigration on them
\nOk, what did you do? Really?<\/strong><\/p>\n* (in at least one case) showing up at a tenants’ door wearing fatigues and a firearm
\n The landlord has a license to carry in your San Francisco neighborhood? Man, you live in a shitty neighborhood. You should really move!<\/strong><\/p>\n* pretending they didn’t receive rent and then issuing evictions for lack of payment of rent
\n You didn’t pay by check and you didn’t get a receipt. Ok.<\/strong><\/p>\n* issuing evictions for roommates “in violation of lease” when roommates are legal tenants
\n Are they? What -exactly- does your lease say? Your friends can’t crash on your couch forever, really.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* refusing to pay interest on security deposits
\n Dude, it’s like 1% interest. $20\/year or something. Just let it go.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* telling immigrants or people of color that their “money isn’t good here”
\nThere are serious laws about that. If you can prove those statements, you’re golden.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* videotaping tenants as they walk out of their doors
\n That sounds like a good thing, since even the landlord, who is packing, got mugged with your rent money.<\/strong><\/p>\n* letting bedbug epidimics run unabated
\n Umm…. get a new bed? Bedbugs are hard to get rid of, really. Sorry.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* doing construction on buildings in such an irritating way that tenants are forced to leave
\n Yes, you’re right, they should use hammer muffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n* demanding meetings with tenants at the church and market office
\n Those Bitches!<\/strong><\/p>\n* trying to impose draconian house rules on tenants
\nWhich one? “Turn off your faucet before you go out of town” or “It’s 11 o’clock, turn down that crazy rap music!”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* trying to require that tenants tell them when they’re leaving town
\nHuh?
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* issuing evictions when tenants leave town for the weekend
\n Evictions take weeks. And why are you getting evicted? Oh yeah, you left the faucet on for 3 months while you were out of town.<\/strong><\/p>\n* issuing evictions for messy apartments
\nDude, if it smells that bad, you really should clean it up. And yes, you can get evicted for that.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* requiring tenants to hand deliver their checks
\n The lease has the landlord’s address at the top of it. On the 26th of every month, write and mail a check. Is it that hard? Apparently. That’s why I advocate building in late-fees to leases so when people like you write your rent check late every freaking month, the landlord says, “No problem. If received after the 5th of the month, you owe an extra $20. Pay or get out.”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* failing to fix the heat
\n San Francisco law is quite clear about how much heat an apartment should get. If it’s substandard, lodge a complaint. But if you want a sauna, move to Iceland. They have lots of those there.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n* claiming tenants are “nuisances” and then offering them market rate rooms in other buildings
\nWell, with your crazy parties and running the faucet for months at a time and that smell, that smell! You should move further away. Or save some money buy your own place so you can do all those things in your own house.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nHere’s the new chant for our picket line:<\/p>\n
Free Housing! No Rent!<\/big><\/p>\n
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