![]() To hang it from sound wood, not the rotted upright. He’d been told to take down his hammock he protested to reporters that he knew Paradise might become a victim of Trigild’s re-construction mandate. A tenant who’d been homeless with his dog until two yearsĪgo sang Pini’s praises, and he was worried that his apartment’s seashell He doesn’t rely on references orĬredit scores either. Unlike 99.9 percent of Santa Barbara landlords, Pini does not requireĪn upfront payment of the first month’s rent, as well as the last month’s rentĪnd a deposit of several hundreds of dollars. Low rent is only one reason many tenants come to hisĭefense. Showed the $1,950 some of Pini’s tenants pay is $400 dollars less than the A recent scan of two-bedrooms for let online Pini’s rentsĪre arguably the lowest in town. The overcrowding Pini allowed - city inspectors found people living in closetsĪnd living rooms - and the high cost of housing in Santa Barbara. That 35 people lived in four apartments is a symptom both of But for the City Attorney’s Office, that’sĪ serious equity problem in a rental property as well as a blight on the It makes him able to turn a blind eye to piles ofĪccumulating stuff, broke-down heaters, and cockroaches, and to things like rawĢx4s instead of drywall, plaster, and paint for walls, the last in Pini’s own There’s a healthy pinch of packrat in Dario Pini’sĬompositional makeup. Lawsuit] was to fix the dilapidated properties.” People value for what they paid,” said John Doimas, assistant cityĪttorney, of the minimal relocation benefits. “We knew the relocation benefits were subject to theįormula under HUD, but the goal was to give Which represented the difference between the rent they paid and a federal Their Health & Safety benefits, however, amounted to $8, The evicted received $6,000 for lost possessionsĪnd moving costs. Worth of tenants - 35 people - were evicted 13 others moved into two emptyĪpartments at the properties. Judge Sterne told Hoffman that was unsustainable. Pini had to foot the $126,000 bill, a price tag that shocked Possible, and also into Motel 6 for nearly a month, paying each a $75-per-day Hoffman’s management company, Trigild, put the tenants into vacant units as Tenants at Pini’s Cota and Valerio street properties, whose apartments hadįlooded because of blocked drains. Side, they told Judge Colleen Sterne in March. Romero Creek flooded highway lanes also trapped Hoffman’s people on the other In February, the winter storm that closed the 101 when They should be housed somewhere else or compensated financially, per the Health & Safety Code. Hoffman’s team, fast learners, quickly understood that the court and the city were worried that in Santa Barbara’s very tight rental market, tenants not be tossed out because code violation were being fixed. About seven others have received quit notices related to the construction or condition of their apartment, mostly toxic mold issues. At the 75 units at the eight properties, about 17 tenants have received an eviction notice, either 3-day, 30-day, or 60-day, mostly for not paying the rent. The behind-the-scenes permitting work is ongoing at the city for Hoffman, a property receiver out of San Diego. But architectural drawings and building permits must be finalized before contractors’ trucks can pull into driveways. ![]() Pini has paid more than $2 million so far - thoroughly unhappy about doing so - and he’ll pay even more before the work is done. Nearly 2,000 Health & Safety Code and Building Code violations remain to be fixed, though dozens have been cured. A solid year after the trial ended that pulled eight of Dario Pini’s properties out of his hands and over to the authority of William Hoffman, hammers have yet to be applied to nails in any consistent way. ![]()
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