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"One of The City\u2019s largest residential rental companies has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging it intimidates renters, illegally refurbishes apartments and cheats The City out of fees.San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit Wednesday against Skyline Realty and its subsidiary company, CitiApartments, along with eight limited liability companies and several individuals, for threatening renters, illegally evicting them, renovating apartments without proper permits and failing to pay fees for flipping residential apartments into high-end corporate suites.\"What happened here was essentially that Skyline paid too much for its buildings and the only way it could recoup its investment was to intimidate tenants and get them out, then raise the rents and convert buildings to units of a different character, many times corporate executive suites, which enabled them to raise the rent, sometimes in the course of a year,\" Herrera said Wednesday.The Gaylord Suites, formerly the Gaylord Hotel, \"reaped a substantial windfall\" for the defendants, according to Hererra\u2019s office. The 77-year-old building\u2019s units, The City alleges, were all converted from residential rooms to short-term corporate executive apartments, in violation of the Hotel Conversion Ordinance."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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