Which SF Landlords Are Paying Big Bucks To Defeat The Prop. 10 Rent Control Measure

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Is your rent money being used to undermine the California Nov. 6 Affordable Housing Act known as Prop. 10? There’s a good chance that it is! We went through all 1,728 checks written statewide from rent control opponents, and found that many San Francisco landlords are using their tenants’ rent money to fight against November’s Proposition 10 rent control measure.

The completely false bullshit TV commercial seen above has played during tons of local cable television advertising breaks this week, thanks to $60 million in funding from entrenched real estate interests. The ad claims to be paid for by “veterans, seniors, affordable housing providers, [and] social justice groups,” but we found precisely zero such advocacy organizations among their contributors.

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Instead, we found that their contributors are trust funds, property investors, and landlords. The wealthy landowners and developers are against Prop 10 because it gives our own city governments the power to make changes to Costa Hawkins, which is the statewide law that prevents rent control on buildings built past 1979. Costa Hawkings is a big reason why SF has lost its artists, teachers, and middle class, it’s why we can’t have rent control on single family homes, which has forced so many SF families to move away, and a big reason why developers want to demolish our Victorians and replace them with new ‘luxury’ condos that cannot have rent control.

Here’s which San Francisco landlords are spending their tenants’ rent money to defeat rent control, and how much of it they’ve spent against Prop. 10:

100 VAN NESS ASSOCIATES, LLC – $83,600.00

1200 15TH AVENUE APARTMENTS – $1,200.00

1221 JONES LLC –  $3,600.00

150 HAIGHT STREET APARTMENTS – $4,200.00

1595 PACIFIC AVENUE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP – $5,000.00

1935 FRANKLIN LP – $2,100.00

2055 CHESTNUT PARTNERS LP – $2,200.00

2153 APARTMENTS LLC – $2,000.00

2520 COLLEGE, LP – $2,450.00

657-659 FILLMORE, LLC –  $1,200.00

901 VALENCIA LP –  $1,200.00

945 GEARY LP – $1,500.00

970 GEARY LP – $1,950.00

ADAM PANZER – $1,000.00

ADDRESS GROUP LLC – $5,000.00

ANDREW LONG – $2,000.00

BERNICE LINDSTROM – $3,000.00

BRIDETTE CULHANE – $1,500.00

CAPPIELLO & ASSOCIATES, INC – $5,000.00

CARMEL PARTNERS AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES – $16,500.00

CAROLYN GRAYBEAL – $2,000.00

CARTA BROKERAGE INC DBA SHAMROCK REAL ESTATE –  $1,000.00

CATHEDRAL HILL ASSOCIATES, LP – $10,000.00

CENTRAL CITY ASSOCIATION PAC – $10,000.00

CHARLIE FIGG – $1,000.00

CHRIS FERRIGNO AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES – $1,250.00

CITY HALL VENTURES LLC – $6,279.00

CLARE GORDON – $2,500.00

CONNOLLY HOLDINGS LLC –  $7,000.00

DIMITRIS DROLAPAS – $1,500.00

DOMINIC CANNIZARO – $1,100.00

EDDY MORIGUCHI – $3,900.00

EGB II, LLC – $55,600.00

ERIC ANDRESEN, INCLUDING VIKING SERVICES CORP DBA WEST COAST PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND MARKETING COMPANIES – $1,190.00

EUGENE HENRY – $1,500.00

LOY FONG PROPERTIES – $3,000.00

FRED LEVINSON – $12,750.00

GAETANI REAL ESTATE – $5,000.00

GEORGE COUCH – $2,500.00

GOLDEN GATEWAY CENTER – $125,400.00

HARRISON FREMONT HOLDINGS LLC – $65,300.00

HERBERT KONKOFF – $1,000.00

JACKSON SQUARE PROPERTIES LLC – $800,600.00

JAMES CONNELLY – $2,000.00

JDA WEST LLC – $18,900.00

JEFF BODINGTON – $1,200.00

JEFREY HENDERSON – $25,000.00

JOSEPH TOBIN – $5,000.00

JULIE KIERSTINE – $1,600.00

KATHE TRAYNOR – $2,700.00

KROUZIAN/NOROIAN, LLC – $3,600.00

L.A.T. CORPORATION – $4,500.00

LAUREL HEIGHTS PARTNERS – $27,900.00

LINDA ERKELENS – $10,000.00

LINK PROPERTIES- $3,000.00

LYLE OLDER – $3,000.00

MAG MANAGEMENT, INC – $20,000.00

MARIA VACCARO – $2,500.00

MARK LEARY –  $10,000.00

MARTIN HEALY – 1,118.00

MATTHEW NICHOLS – $1,000.00

MERLONE GEIER MANAGEMENT LLC AND AFFILIATED ENTITIES – $60,000.00

MICO-TLJ-LP –  $1,800.00

NAOMI KONKOFF –  $1,000.00

NEVEO MOSSER, INCLUDING THE MOSSER COMPANIES, INC. –  $157,300.00

NINA HATVANY – $5,000.00

OCTAVIA GROUP –  $1,200.00

OLESON BROKERAGE –  $5,000.00

OLTRANTI PROPERTIES – $1,000.00

PANORAMIC INTERESTS –  $2,000.00

PANZER REAL ESTATE DBA REAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, INCLUDING J.J. PANZER –  $23,900.00

PINNACLE AT NOB HILL – $4,000.00

PRADO 1474 SACRAMENTO, LLC – $2,100.00

PRADO 704 BUSH, LLC – $2,000.00

RAUDIO FAMILY PROPERTIES LLC – $1,700.00

RENTSFNOW, INC. –  $130,000.00

ROBERT MAYER – $11,200.00

ROBERT R. CALLAN – $1,000.00

ROCIO VACA –  $1,000.00

RONALD GARRIGUEZ – $1,000.00

ROSANO & COMPANY – $2,000.00

RP CAMBRIDGE LP – $2,000.00

RSGF GRANADA BUILDING LLC – $2,300.00

RUSSELL FLYNN – $600,000.00

S&L REALTY TRAC PROPERTIES – $5,000.00

SALLY GRIFFITH – $1,000.00

SAN FRANCISCO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE –  $30,000.00

SCHMIDT REAL ESTATE L.P. – $1,000.00

SEIDEL ARCHITECTS – $2,000.00

SHAMROCK PROPERTIES – $7,500.00

SUMMER INVESTMENTS – $2,500.00

TED ANSTEDT – $2,400.00

TEN FORTY MASON STREET, LLC –  $1,000.00

TESSERACT CAPITAL GROUP –  $2,500.00

THE FELIX GROUP, LLC – $5,000.00

TIM CARRICO – $2,800.00

VALSTOCK MANAGEMENT – $2,000.00

VAN NESS HAYES ASSOCIATES LLC – $84,000.00  – $5,000.00

VOSS MANAGEMENT, LLC.- 1,410.00

WEST & PRASZKER REALTORS, INC – $2,000.00