wtf - greeyd landlord story

it will be good to get out of crouch end - crouch end - land of gigantic pram and media wankers and boring bore bored people.

(02-19) 17:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO --

The San Francisco landlord couple accused of cutting floorboards from under their tenant as part of an alleged harassment campaign are back in jail after being indicted by a grand jury.

Kip Macy, 34, and Nicole Macy, 33, pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than dozen counts each in connection with their alleged effort to drive tenants from their South of Market apartment building so they could raise rents.

The Macys were first arrested in April 2008, but were soon freed on $250,000 bail apiece. A preliminary hearing was scheduled, at which a judge would decide whether they should be tried, but earlier this month the grand jury returned indictments.

The indictments - which restated charges already filed in amended complaints - meant the couple had to post bail again. This time, however, their bail-bond agent refused to help, citing the new allegations and the plunging value of the real estate the couple had put up as collateral.

Kip Macy's attorney, Lisa DewBerry, sought Thursday to have bail lowered to $10,000, but Superior Court Judge Charles Haines turned her down.

"Folks, $10,000 is not reasonable," Haines said.

The Macys are accused of harassing tenants who were resisting eviction from an apartment building at 744-746 Clementina St. Prosecutors say the couple went so far as to cut the joists supporting the floor of one of the tenants, Scott Morrow.

At one point, prosecutors said, Nicole Macy called 911 and reported Morrow as a vagrant sleeping in the building. Police removed him at gunpoint.

After the original charges were filed, prosecutors went to a grand jury with allegations that Nicole Macy had impersonated Morrow in harassing e-mails to his lawyer. She also posed as Morrow in e-mails threatening the children of the Macys' attorneys, authorities said.

Kip Macy was indicted on six stalking charges, four burglary counts, and one count each of theft, vandalism and receiving stolen property.

Nicole Macy is charged with the stalking counts, three counts of burglary, two counts of false personation and counts of theft, making threats, cutting a phone and receiving stolen property.

Their trial is scheduled for April 20.

Ironically, Kip Macy is a FreeBSD contributor. So much for OSS devs being wannabe hippies.

dear God put these fuckers in prison ASAP, thx, yr pal jd

I just don't get why someone would buy a house for renting in SF with such notions of entitlement. I mean, SF is quite well-known for being very strong in tenants' rights, not to mention folks who believe in exercising them.

Which is not to say that their behavior would be excusable elsewhere.

Just harder to get away with.

Landlords can get in deep shit if they do not check your gas/boiler/etc once yearly using a Corgi registered techie.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/80657Shelbi_funny_look.jpg
"Ya see, yer problem here is a leaky gasket; I gotta go lick myself and then I'm gonna get right on that."

lol @ that freebsd connection mentioned a few posts ago. First Hans Reiser now this.

Just harder to get away with.

And by harder I assume you mean easier. Place in hell, etc etc - esp. given how much they could conceivably be able to raise rents these days (vis. yer collateral is no good)

Yeah, easier. Sometimes on ILX I just shoot from the hip and hope that the collateral damage isn't too bad.