9.30.20 Creditor Update by Joe Eskenazi on Scribd
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9.30.20 Creditor Update by Joe Eskenazi on Scribd
9.23.20 HubHaus Announcement – Members by Joe Eskenazi on Scribd
Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior... More by Joe Eskenazi
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if you rent your house to a company that knowing re-rents it out….you get what you deserve.
Why do they name companies after the devil / Baal..
Looks like HubHaus was a money grab outfit that was contributing nothing to the community, so good riddance.
I am a Hubhaus landlord in DC. That isn’t true that we get what we deserve. It is another form of property management widely used in California. It is also used in social services and is highly effective because private landlords will not rent to folks with poor credit, prior evictions, or that are system involved. I work in homeless services and affordable housing and have used the master lease tool effectively in DC. As a private landlord (living in another city), having a firm manage the rental with group tenants is very helpful. It also makes it possible to lease to adults who don’t know one another. There is nothing inherently wrong with being a landlord and using services like this. The fact that Hubhaus was dishonest and perhaps did not have a good business plan is a separate issue. In my case, I responded to all service requests to keep the house in shape.
Hard time feeling sorry for anyone involved with Hubhaus. Company, landlords or renters.
“They sued, and attorney Jim Lucey says a settlement has been reached for his seven clients. He is expecting a check from HubHaus as soon as this week, and does not believe any of the company’s recent announcements will prevent that payment.”
I know he’s a tenant law attorney and not a bankruptcy attorney, but I’m surprised at his optimism for getting paid before the secured creditors.
what happens to all the little people that are bring hurt by this? a
Hubhaus wasn’t creating any new housing, they were merely a “roommate app” looking to maximize profit by working the margins created by a gap in the regulation/enforcement of single family home occupancy. Good riddance.
Not fixing things and not providing utilities is unacceptable. However, many companies and businesses are struggling through COVID and it saddens me to see another company shut down. I am not suprised a company that does does multiple people living for young professionals during a time rent prices in the city are dropping more than ever, failed. The homeowners and tenents are ones left to suffer.
A few months before the closed down they raised rent and doubled our utilitiy charges and as a way to squeeze the very last bit of cash out of this scam before closing down shop.
The lawyer for hubhaus told me in April they would evict everyone in the house if we did not lie to the courts and support hubhaus in a current legal case.
They have tried blackmailing tenants, manipulating witnesses by bribing them, and have been scamming money for a long time. There needs to be a criminal investigation into hubhaus. This has been a full blown criminal operation for a while now.
We are neighbors to a Hub Haus property…. the tenants are not nice to our neighborhood and the landlord is now suffering with said “squatters”… the tenants have not paid HubHaus in months and neither has the landlord received any payment from HubHaus in months…..and our city is doing nothing about it.