San Francisco Landlord Deals With Nightmare After Tenant Pot Bust

August 19, 2011 3:01 PM

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An indoor marijuana growing operation. (AP)

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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – An extensive indoor pot growing operation that was busted in San Francisco’s Parkside neighborhood earlier this week has left the landlord picking up the pieces.

San Francisco police said this is a regular occurrence in the Parkside, Richmond and Sunset districts, as rental properties are converted into grow houses.

KCBS’ Tim Ryan Reports:

Landlord Shares Nightmare Tenant Story Following SF Pot Bust

Landlord Najib Batshson of Belmont said the latest bust at one of his properties caused $30,000 in damage and months of lost rent, with repairs to the floors, walls and roof, where holes were cut for ventilation.

“There is going to be tile work. They poured some chemicals on the marble and everything got damaged in the kitchen,” he said.

Batshson said the electrical system at the Noriega Street home was also a mess.

He admits that he should have done more homework when screening the tenants, who he believed were foreign exchange students.

“I should have walked in to the property every couple of months to verify that everything was normal,” Batshson said. “But honestly, I didn’t go in it for over a year.”

Batshson has hired a demolition crew, contractor and contacted his insurance company, trying to undo the mess.

San Francisco Landlord Deals With Nightmare After Tenant Pot Bust

AB

A foreign exchange student would never go through all the risk for growing pot! Hello… they are just happy to be in the country and learning the language.
Don

Let’s have some “nightmare” stories about terrible landlords now. There are plenty to be found.

And perhaps the SFPD can find some real crime to fight,
Patric Cliff Wright Andorfer

and yet when I contacted the police about a grow room being built I was harassed about it. Any reported interested in a story about Google being the owner of one such rooms let me know.
Dirka Dirka

That’s what you get for being an absentee landlord. Fuk you!

Dan Carter

You are an ignorant punk.

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