Tobener Ravenscroft LLP

$1.3M

Habitability

Award for residents of a mobile home park who suffered years of deferred maintenance and landlord negligence resulting in enormous potholes in park, constantly malfunctioning sewage, gas, and electrical systems, vandalism, prostitution, and drug crimes throughout the park, and unstable mobile home pad foundations.

$1.2M

Habitability

Recovered in action brought against landlord who failed to maintain Sonoma County mobile home park in habitable condition. Fifty park residents suffered with black, oily water for more than twenty years. The landlord could have attached to City water for a nominal cost, but refused to do it. Other habitability issues included park flooding, sewage leaks, broken fences, open ditches, and rats. Instead of making requested repairs the landlord blamed and harassed the tenants.

$700,000

Wrongful Eviction

Recovered for a single San Francisco tenant who was wrongfully evicted from her rent-controlled unit after the owners threatened her with eviction for complaining about the property manager’s multi-year campaign of sexual harassment and failure to address habitability defects. The tenant was forced to move out of her home of eleven years.

$625,000

Constructive Eviction

Awarded to married couple and their elderly neighbor forced out of two apartments in a multi-unit property in Richmond after their landlord refused to address nuisance behavior by neighbors, including sex trafficking and drug sales.

$550,000

Wrongful Eviction

Awarded to couple wrongfully evicted from San Francisco unit after ten years for an owner move in. Property was immediately sold and new owners re-rented the unit.

$535,000

Constructive Eviction

Recovered for a family of six living in three separate neighboring units who were forced out due to landlord harassment and the landlord’s failure to address a rat infestation, a cockroach infestation, a dilapidated carpet, a leaky fridge, a leaky toilet, and lack of garbage cans.