Latest on Lembi Collapse
From SF Business Times: Klingbeil Capital latest to feast on Lembi holdings Klingbeil Capital Management has joined the growing cadre of private real estate investment firms taking advantage of the …
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IRE, Here It Comes
Today I sent off the SF magazine story to the Investigative Reporters and Editors contest. This was a large effort. Answering the 12 questions took several hours and yielded five …
Read MoreGood-bye To The Story, Hello To The City
Right about now, all over San Francisco, my magazine piece about the Lembi family is being taken off the shelves and the next issue of San Francisco Magazine is filling …
Read MoreSame Business Plan, Different City
A British company, The New York Times reports, had the same idea as the Lembi’s did, and met a similar fate. Dawnay Day bought up 47 rent controlled apartment buildings …
Read MoreThe Paragraph I Couldn’t Publish
When I was working on my SF magazine piece “War of Values” my editors asked me to write how I truly felt about what I described in the article. In …
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