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Robert Arthur Imhoff and Landmark Realty

Notorious Mission District landlord Robert Imhoff has filed Ellis Act eviction notices at a 12-unit building on 3301-3311 Cesar Chavez Street (at South Van Ness). The mass evictions primarily target Latino families and include a tenant who has lived in their home since 1969.

More recently, Landmark Realty has gotten into short term rentals and intermediary lease occupancies (ILOS). As of August 2021, it is behind 144 short term rentals listed on Airbnb.

Randy Shaw reports, "Imhoff has always been a secretive man. You can find few if any photos that show his identity. The late Victor Miller of the New Mission News and reporter Brian Doohan spent years exposing Imhoff’s wrong, which were primarily based on substandard housing. . .  The mass evictions at 3301-3311 will likely raise Imhoff’s public figure. Based on records filed with the Rent Board, 25 tenants face displacement."

Landmark Realty has also been behind slumlordism in Kansas City.

San Francisco Evictions

641 O’Farrell Street

Numerous evictions in what is now being rented out through short term rentals, known as “Downtown: The Cornelia Suites”

Fires and Death, 1997

14 blazes have been reported in the 97-unit building. Records show 21 fire code violations at the 90-year-old building since July 1989. Imhoff paid nearly $4 million for the building in 1988, and has since been unresponsive. Barbara Hersel, 38, burned to death Jan. 3rd, 1997. Records show that problems have been addressed after authorities identified them. Imhoff's lawyer said that "his client is law-abiding but disinclined to talk to reporters. He also said that Imhoff, who owns hundreds of apartment units in The City, shouldn't be held responsible for social problems at 641 O'Farrell "that need to be addressed by society as a whole.""

3301-3311 Cesar Chavez Street LLC

Ellis Act, 2/26/2015

Notorious Mission District landlord Robert Imhoff has filed Ellis Act eviction notices at a 12-unit building on 3301-3311 Cesar Chavez Street (at South Van Ness). The mass evictions primarily targets Latino families and include a tenant who has lived in their home since 1969.

Guerrero and 22nd Street

Buyout, 10/29/2012

A tenant who had been living there since 1995 wrote to us: “The landlord originally offered to buy me out of my lease and give me 6 months to move out. I saw a lawyer they came back with a very high counter offer and the landlord told me that I would get nothing, that he would Ellis the building instead. This was six months ago and I have not heard from him again about it, but I live in fear all the time that he will do something to get me out of my home.”

1136 Guerrero Street

Buyout and Ellis Act evictions filed in 2009, impacting 5 units

1000-1008 Guerrero Street

Three breach of lease evictions were filed there in 2000 and 2001

2701 Folsom Street

Ellis Act Evictions, 2019, four units displaced in May

2402a Harrison Street

Harassment, 2/5/2014

Imhoff claimed non payment of rent  and administered unfair late fees without notifying a family and people with disabilities.

250 Taylor Street: 1987, 1998, 1999, 2019, and now Short Term Rental

Imhoff Illegally evicted low-income Filipino families from the building in 1987 during a wave of gentrification. This inspired a Homes Not Jails action in 1992. Imhoff was seeking to evict all tenants for substantial rehabilitation, which would have exempted the building from rent control. He ended up having to give the tenants the option to return after repairs were made, along with a sizable relocation payment. Then, he evicted in 1998, 1999, and more recently in 2019. As of 2021, the building is listed as a short term rental.

 

Homes Not Jail action, 1997


Robert Arthur Imhoff and Landmark Realty

573 South Van Ness
19000 Elderberry
Sonoma, CA 95476    
(5000 sq foot home with 4 bathrooms)

Landmark Realty

Properties Owned:

2911 16th Street /2901-2929 16 Street (Sonoma Suites)

890-892 Alabama St

700-718 S Van Ness Ave

643-647 Fillmore St

641 Ofarrell St (large fire 1997, now Cornelia Suites, 97 units)

573 S Van Ness Ave

550 15th St

337-343 San Jose Ave

324 Bartlett St

3176 17 St

3129-3139 Folsom St

2901-2905 Folsom St

2774-2784 Bryant St

2701-2703 21 St

2701 Folsom St

250 Taylor St  (1987 illegal evictions and bankruptcy declaration)

249 Capp St

2404 Harrison St

2401-2415 Bryant St

2400 Harrison St

237-239 Capp St

2059-2065 Mission St

1906-1908 Folsom St

1290 Grove St

1136 Guerrero St

1122-1126 Guerrero St

1044-1048 Guerrero St

1000-1008 Guerrero St

1417 77th Avenue, Oakland

2513 Laurel, Napa

19000 Elderberry, Sonoma

4725 Woodview Dr, Santa Rosa

1032 S Kihei Road #B119, Kihei, HI

1032 S Kihei Road #B120, Kihei, HI   

14 million dollar Napa apartment complex

 

Companies and LLCs:

 

2057-65 Mission St LLC

3301-3311 Cesar Chavez Street LLC

Landmark Realty

Numenor Corp.

Jasmine Networks, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

Jasmine Claims Holdings, LLC

Napa Gardens LLC, a Nevada Corporation

3415 22nd Street, LLC

4222-26 24th Street, LLC

900 York, LLC

Alameda Marine View Apartments LLC

1290 Grove Street, LLC

Jack Rosen, Inc.

1000 Guerrero Corporation

Numenor Corporation

Coromandel Construction Company, Inc.

Nob Hill Mortgage Company, Inc.

Numenor Corp., dba Landmark Realty

Franciscan Electric Inc.

Woodbine Landmark Associates, A Limited Partnership

Nob Hill Mortgage Company

16th/Taylor Apartments LLC

 

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