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Oakland Mayor Schaaf and housing chief Rachel Flynn engage in war against renters

by Lynda Carson (tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com)
Double-crossing Oakland renters with her nomination of pro-eviction real estate broker Kevin Skipper to the Oakland rent board as a pro-tenant Commissioner, is tantamount to a declaration of war against renters. In total contrast to her nomination that is connected to a serial-evictor, in the not to distant past, Mayor Schaaf declared that her top priority is preventing tenants from being displaced from their housing. It appears that Mayor Schaaf has been trying to hoodwink Oakland renters into believing that she is not in the pocket of greedy landlords, and corrupt wealthy developers!

Oakland Mayor Schaaf and housing chief Rachel Flynn engage in war against renters

By Lynda Carson — October 10, 2015

Oakland — As reported in the East Bay Express, Mayor Libby Schaaf has nominated pro-eviction real estate broker Kevin Skipper to the Oakland rent board, as a pro-tenant Commissioner.

Double-crossing Oakland renters with her nomination of pro-eviction real estate broker Kevin Skipper to the Oakland rent board as a pro-tenant Commissioner, is tantamount to a declaration of war against renters. In total contrast to her nomination that is connected to a serial-evictor, in the not to distant past, Mayor Schaaf declared that her top priority is preventing tenants from being displaced from their housing. It appears that Mayor Schaaf has been trying to hoodwink Oakland renters into believing that she is not in the pocket of greedy landlords, and corrupt wealthy developers!

Developer friendly Mayor Schaaf, and her top housing chief Rachel Flynn who recently made the ludicrous statement, claiming that there is no housing crisis in Oakland, appear to be doing everything possible to throw out the red carpet as an invitation to carpet baggers, shady investors, sleazy realtors, greedy landlords and wealthy speculators, to come to Oakland and displace our communities in the name of profits, greed, and the eviction-for profit-system.

Mayor Schaaf’s latest nomination for the rent board is Kevin Skipper, a real estate broker with the Bay Property Group, a brokerage and property management company founded by the notorious serial-evictor, Daniel Bornstein, of Bornstein and Bornstein.

Click below…

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/169159

Daniel Marc Bornstein and his brother Jonathan Bornstein, with offices in San Francisco and Oakland, are notorious serial-evictors who operate the law offices of Bornstein and Bornstein. They are to blame for hundreds of evictions that have tossed one family after another out of their homes, onto the cold hearted streets of San Francisco, and the Bay Area.

In addition to Daniel Bornstein organizing eviction seminars for greedy landlords known as “eviction boot camps” by renters, and tenant activists, on April 13, 2015, the SF Appeal reported that Judge Ernest Holdsmith has thrown Bornstein and Bornstein off a court battle over a Richmond District eviction lawsuit.

Bay Property Group, the same company founded by serial-evictor Daniel Bornstein that Kevin Skipper is a broker for, took over a building on Seal Rock Drive in San Francisco, that had renters facing eviction by Bornstein and Bornstein. After Bay Property Group took over the building, their employees had contact with the tenants facing eviction, in violation of the State Bar’s professional conduct guidelines.

According to Jonathon Arons, a member of the Association of Discipline Defense Council: “A lawyer can’t contact the tenants directly, and he can’t have his employees or anyone else on his behalf contact them indirectly.”

In total violation of the State Bar’s professional conduct guidelines prohibiting the indirect contact with the other side in a lawsuit, Bornstein and Bornstein ignored the state conduct guidelines, and several employees of Bay Property Group went to survey the housing unit where the tenants Ariel Bentolila and Abenet Tekie resided, under the guise of inspections. Additionally, surreptitiously video taping the tenants while inspecting the unit, which is a violation of their right to privacy.

Judge Ernest Holdsmith has thrown Bornstein and Bornstein off the eviction court battle as a direct result of the shady activities of Bornstein and Bornstein, and Bay Property Group, the same company Kevin Skipper works for as the Sr. Associate real estate broker.

Despite the facts, and the actions of Judge Ernest Holdsmith against Bornstein and Bornstein, for the down and dirty nefarious tactics of Bay Property Group, Mayor Libby Schaaf has nominated Kevin Skipper as a pro-tenant Commissioner on the rent board.

Click below for more about notorious eviction attorney, and Bay Property Group…

http://sfappeal.com/2015/04/notorious-eviction-attorney-gets-thrown-off-case-for-violation-of-conduct-guidelines/

Kevin LaMar Skipper, of 4733 Allendale Ave., Oakland, has a real estate brokers/sales person license listed with 482 West MacArthur Blvd, in Oakland, which is the law office of Bornstein and Bornstein, the serial-evictors responsible for evicting hundreds of Bay Area families from their housing, in the name of the eviction—for profit—system.

Tenant activists are urging Oakland renters to immediately make calls and to send emails to the City Council in opposition to Mayor Schaaf’s nomination of Kevin LaMar Skipper, as a Commissioner of the rent board.

dkalb [at] oaklandnet.com, aguillen [at] oaklandnet.com, lmcelhaney [at] oaklandnet.com, ACampbell-Washington [at] oaklandnet.com, ngallo [at] oaklandnet.com, dbrooks [at] oaklandnet.com, lreid [at] oaklandnet.com, atlarge [at] oaklandnet.com, officeofthemayor [at] oaklandnet.com, rkaplan [at] oaklandnet.com

As a sample email letter people may send to the City Council in opposition to the nomination of Kevin Skipper, see below.

Dear City Council Members

I am writing in opposition of the nomination of Kevin Skipper by Mayor Libby Schaaf for the rent board.

As Sr. Associate/Real Estate Broker for Bay Property Group since December of 2011, Kevin Skipper, of the Bay Property Group, and Bornstein and Bornstein has been involved in illegal activities and wrong doing in the eviction case involving tenant’s Ariel Bentolila and Abenet Tekie, at Seal Rock Drive in San Francisco, where they had their civil rights abused, and Judge Ernest Holdsmith has thrown Bornstein and Bornstein off a court battle over the Richmond District eviction lawsuit.

Due to his activities with Bay Property Group in the case of Seal Rock Drive, where Judge Ernest Goldsmith had to intervene on behalf of the tenants to protect them from the illegal activities of Kevin Skipper, and Bay Property Group, there is a clear and present danger to the renters of Oakland, if the City Council approves the nomination of Kevin Skipper to the rent board.

The evidence is clear that as a real estate broker involved in activities that may lead to the displacement and eviction of renters in Oakland and the Bay Area, Kevin Skipper is not fit to take on the role of a pro-tenant Commissioner, while being connected to the activities of Daniel Bornstein, a serial-evictor.

Add your own comment here.

Sincerely,

Sign Your Name Here.


Click below for more contact information for the Oakland City Council.

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityCouncil/


Click below for more on Kevin Skipper.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-skipper/10/13b/a8a


Lynda Carson may be reached at tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com

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§Mayor Libby Schaaf Withdraws Nomination Of Kevin Skipper
by Lynda Carson
Mayor Libby Schaaf Withdraws Nomination Of Kevin Skipper

This morning the East Bay Express reported that Mayor Libby Schaaf withdrew her nomination of Keviin Skipper to the Rent Board, and a staff member claims that they failed to vet Kevin Skipper for the position.

Regardless of the efforts of the Mayor to hoodwink the public into going along with her nomination of Kevin Skipper, now is the perfect time to push for "two" Oakland tenants to be nominated for the Rent Board.

(LC)

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