A San Francisco couple has been charged with “waging a campaign of terror” on the tenants of one of their South of Market buildings. Among the charges on the couple are felony stalking, felony residential burglary, and conspiracy. That’s a decent amount of charges for the couple. See why they were charged below!

33-year-old Kip Macy and 32-year-old Nicole Macy both face the above charges for terrorizing their tenants in order to force them to move out. The couple bought the building in 2005 for $995,000 and immediately started trying to evict the residents. Occupants of the building did not want to move out, especially not by force, so they fought against the owner’s moves and succeeded. The owners, obviously pissed off about it, started breaking into tenants homes and soaked clothes, beds, and electronics in ammonia, sawed holes in living room floors from the apartment below, shut off electricity and phone lines, and went so far as to cut the support beams of apartments floors. That’s crazy. They really wanted those people out.

Other tenants were bothered by the couple after they began paying reduced rent after having discovered they were being overcharged under the city’s rent control law. In this case,:

“Prosecutors said the Macys broke into the tenants’ apartment last June and stole $2,000 in cash, a Gucci watch and a cell phone. The tenants, Erik Hernandez and Jason Lopez, later filed a lawsuit accusing the Macys of first changing the locks on the apartment, then illegally entering their unit and dismantling some of their furniture.

When Hernandez came home and confronted Kip Macy as the landlord was ransacking his apartment, Macy kicked him in the chest, the suit says. Threatening notes then started appearing at the tenants’ door, and the water was shut off after the Macys stopped paying the bill, the suit says.”

The city was informed of the owner’s actions when they first started terrorizing victims and sent inspectors to check the building out. They were shocked to discover the intentional damage on some of the apartments and ordered the owners to repair the damage but they refused. Eventually, the city was ordered to repair the damage and billed the Macy’s the $8,000 it cost them but the couple refused to pay. As a result of their actions, some of the tenants grew afraid of leaving their apartment, in fear the landlord would lock them out.

Kip Macy is accused of three felony conspiracy charges, three burglary charges, two stalking charges, two grand theft charges and one felony count of shutting off service, related to cutting Morrow’s power. He also faces one misdemeanor vandalism charge.

Nicole Macy faces three conspiracy charges, three burglary charges, two stalking charges, two grand theft charges, one charge of cutting phone service and one count of misdemeanor vandalism.

This is a pretty extreme case of a bad landlord. Anyone who has ever rented an apartment has most likely dealt with bad landlords. We’ve seen apartments with holes in the bathroom ceiling that go through the bathroom of the above floor, had to deal with no hot water for weeks, no heat because the landlord turns it off the second the weather becomes slightly warmer, even if a temperature drop is expected the next day, and had a door that swelled and could not be closed all winter but never have we heard anything like this. It’s not uncommon for landlords to want to evict tenants after buying a building but usually they either compensate the tenants or provide them with other accommodations. This is a pretty extreme example of this. Who knows what the couple was thinking? There is honestly no way they expected to get away with it.

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