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Licensed contractor is violating state law....

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Another "issue" based on nothing but grudges and rumors.

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'repaired' stairs are not up to code, and the structure is unsound.
Please stop allowing 'anonymous' people to 'close' issues that are indeed code violations.

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But for trivial objections, this property would have been completely repaired by now.

Big red stop work order on property for over 3 months.

It looks as if some people would prefer to squat in a building that's falling apart rather than let the owner repair it.

The owner of this building is TP Partners LLC. Contact the property management company Bay Apartment Advisors

4 Stop Work Orders
2 (perhaps more) suspended permits
1 Restricted/Unsafe Stairs
1 Unsafe Structure (red-tagged)
2 injuries.

'Trivial objections'

Date 5/1/2015
Facility / Site Location
TP Partners, LLC
Attn: Martin Higgins
1565 Madison St # B
Oakland, Ca 94612

May 1, 2015 -

Addressed to Martin Higgins - Bay Apartment Advisors
From: Taylor, Kevin
Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:46 PM
Subject: 374 41st St
To: mhiggins@bayaptadvisors.com
Cc: "Austin, Joan" , "Kozak, Rebecca"

Mr. Higgins please review the attached Inspection notice and bring property within compliance.

We are not sure how or why there is major construction going on while tenants are still living there in a unsafe environment.

Please contact me within 10 business days to discuss this issue.

Facilty / Site Location
374 41ST ST
Oakland, CA 94609

Pursuant to OMC Sec. 15.12, an Investigation fire inspection was conducted on 4/23/2015 at the site location above which found the facility to be Non Compliant with City of Oakland fire regulations. In accordance with CFC 104.5 you are hereby ordered to immediately correct all deficiencies upon receipt of this notice.
Failure to comply with this lawful order may result in a citation to appear in Municipal Court, plus additional fees and civil penalties

'trivial'
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-09-2015-california-lbp-work.html

'squat' in a building
That's funny

No actually that's not funny, Get a life , Quit living of the system and let people do their job. Your setting your self up. False quotes and comments. Videos that invade privacy. Trespassing into areas that have lead and are being abated legally and posting it on U tube. Get a life and get on you meds as the neighbors have told everybody. You lived in a place that you claimed to be dangerous. IT,S CALLED GETTING FREE RENT. W ORK THE SYSTEM LOOSER

You seem to think that everybody is going to be scared of you and you run the city. Actually most people in the neighborhood think you and you boyfriend are a joke. I mean people that actually work for a living , want the place fixed so their property values go up and all around normal people that aren't using the most law suit state anywhere to survive instead of getting a job. So lets hear your real comments people.

And by the way anybody that wants my phone number I will post it. I'm not worried about being
anonymous

Wow its been 5 minutes since this post with no response. It seems since all you do is post blogs and don't have a life we would get a response by now

And by the way if you check out gillikin siding he's never had a complaint since 1995 but has on the other hand shut down an investment firm on his own for stealing money from investors, over 27 million dollars they stole. But they actually spent money to shut it down and didn't try to get anything
personally. That's called good

Also if anybody out there thinks this building was sitting ,unsafe as it has been described it would only be because the person writing these blogs called the city every chance they got and had the job shut down. Claims there were no permits posted? They were posted until the kept coming up missing . But as the people that own homes and work for a living know that if you keep doing this you may get out of paying rent. LOL

Not a single tenant in this building got "free rent", but there were 4 stop work orders issued, 1 yellow tagged stairs (unsafe/restricted use) after they were repaired by this contractor.

The bldg was red tagged after the fire inspector came out and cited numerous violations. Sorry George, but no amount of phone calls world result in 4 stop work orders, and a red tagged building

For some inexplicable reason, the vigilantes continue to prefer a termite-ridden, dry-rotted hulk to valuable renovated housing.

All tenants lived in this building for over 5 years. We paid our rent without a problem. Even during all of this work and when tenants couldn't actually live in their apartments, we kept paying rent.. so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I know that it's super weird to have to pull permits for major projects.. however:

Let's stick to the facts:
Stop Work Order #1 - Unit 2 demo without permits.
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/stop-work-order-1-september-15-2014.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/september-16-2014-214pm-email-to-dennis.html

Stop Work Order #2 -
After our balcony was 'repaired/replaced' without a permit and our balcony was demo'ed without a permit, stop work order #2 was issued
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/stop-work-order-2-october-3-2014.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/october-3-2014-oh-wait-you-do-need.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/september-23-2014-housing-and.html

Stop Work Order #3
Issued after a tenant was injured on the back stairs.
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/stop-work-order-3-october-10-2014.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/october-3-2014-stop-work-order-2.html

Permits Suspended: October 27
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/october-27-2014-permits-suspended.html

Stop Work Order #4 March 31, 2015
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/stop-work-order-4-march-31-2015.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/march-31-2015-stop-work-order-4.html

Some questions about the building in April
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/april-25-2015-435pm-email-to-oakland.html

Fire Inspector cites fire code violations
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/april-23-2015-fire-inspector-comes-to.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/06/may-01-2015-fire-inspection-report.html

And a little overview
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/march-26-2015-943am-email-to-city-of.html

Some housing codes:
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-14-2014-article-x-substandard-and.html

Gillikin job rules
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-1-2015-work-rules-at-374-41st.html

2nd floor balcony doors after balcony demo:
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/september-25-2014-second-floor-balcony.html

Almost forgot:
Fire Inspector cites fire code violations
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/07/april-23-2015-fire-inspector-comes-to.html
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/06/may-01-2015-fire-inspection-report.html

May 4, 2015 - The building is red-tagged
http://tenanttimeline.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-4-2016-315pm-unsafe-to-occupy.html

p.s. - none of us had 'Free Rent'.
We were all paying rent.

Just requesting legal and safe work for the occupants and the neighborhood.
4 Stop work orders in 90 days isn't so good...

oh sorry: 3 Stop Work orders in 90 days.

Hi moderators, please review.

A lot of people are wondering why your so concerned with everything still. Are you trying to keep a time line in the event you are sued for slander , false accusations, trespassing , violating a lead containment area. Just wondering because all those items are posted on u tube

It's good to see neighborhood improvements underway, even as some people try to slow them down or stop them.

Nothing illegal about documenting the facts!
The neighborhood is well aware of (and keeps all of us up to date) on what is happening here.
Thanks neighbors!

Hi George! I'm not sure what you're getting at?
Last time I checked, standing on a public sidewalk isn't trespassing!
I'm just doing my civic duty of 'seeing! clicking! and fixing!'
I'm sorry that this is so upsetting to you!!!!

Speaking of which, guess it's time to check in with the EPA and Alameda County to see how things are going. And I've still got to respond to the mayor!

I'm just performing due diligence, and ensuring that the appropriate agencies are aware of any other issues. If the city/county/feds disagree, they'll simply ignore the issues!

Maybe you should too!

Amigail - there appears to be some confusion! Zero intent on 'stopping' or 'slowing', just want to make sure things are being done legally and safely! I'm sorry if this is an issue for you!

If your only doing your civic duty and not targeting any one person ,Maybe you should go walk around the neighborhood and look at the two houses that are being re built with not one bit of lead or asbestos abatement. It goes on everywhere and the cities don't care . There's more lead in the stuff that comes from china in the dollar store. If your really concerned go to any public dump site. They don't check anything and construction projects are dumping contaminated materials all day long. People lived with it in the old days and as you are probably aware cancer rates and health problems are a lot worse these days. Its not from lead on old homes. If you want to be a WATCH DOG for the EPA then maybe you should apply for a job there

George, you seem overly concerned.
Perhaps the contractor at this site and the owners of the property should follow California and Federal laws when they decide to flip a property.

4 Stop Work Orders +
Several instances of suspended permits +
1 Unsafe/Restricted Use Stairs +
1 Red-tagged building =

not so good at doing things legally.

Stop Work Order #1 - 9/15/2014
Unit 2 Demolition - no permit /
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9152014-stop-work-order-1.html

This was cute: 1:00pm on the day of balcony demo no permit, and the workers hadn't bothered to secure the 2nd floor balcony doors
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/09232014-balcony-demo-second-floor.html

Oh sorry, I forgot to post Stop Work Order #3 - Balcony Demo - no permit
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10032014-balcony-stop-work-order-2.html

10/2/2014 - one of the 'newly repaired' back stairs treads cracks in half
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/1022014-back-stairs-cracked-tread.html

Leaving ladders and chunks of stucco (lead-based paint) laying in the yard for weeks (months?)
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10102014-side-yard-ladders-and-stucco.html

Never bothering to protect the sections of wood that was exposed during 9/23/2014 Balcony demo... water intrusion for months
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/12/1232014-exterior.html

Removing a section of a structural framing member when installing a gas furnace vent (on 09/26/2014 - without a permit)
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2015/02/2082015-unit-2-exterior-wood-siding.html

http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2015/02/2172015-unit-2-exterior-gas-furnace-and.html

Dumping construction debris (lead-based paint) on the side of the building, which is a violation of California State and Federal Laws
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9232014-balcony-demo-lead-based-paint.html

Workers performing a balcony demolition without a permit, and failing to use any lead-safe work practices. This is a 1920s building.
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9232014-balcony-demo-gillikin-siding_13.html

No worker protection during this balcony demo.
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9232014-balcony-demo-no-permit-no-hard.html

And since Unit 2 was undergoing a bathroom and kitchen remodel, there were no restroom facilities at the job site..

RRP Rules (Federal)
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9222014-rrp-rules.html

Some super safe work practices by Unit 2 workers
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9192014-workers-plastic-chairs.html

California's laws are much stricter than the EPA
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/09/9042014-lead-hazards-in-california-are.html

So feel free to argue, George.. but here's the thing:
I've got a ton of documentation to back up my claims.
And I'll just keep gathering more.

We have also watched many videos of you on u tube doing illegal things such as entering a abatement zone to video tape workers, video taping people when you were asked over and over to stop. These are your videos. I wonder if anybody has videos of you doing illegal things after hours at the property. You don't know all your old neighbors now do you. Spend some time enjoying life and not being miserable on MEDS

Any body can break a step and take a picture, just like the person that pours water on the floor in the supermarket and claims they fell. Caifornia LAWSUIT STAE OF OUR COUNTRY.

Stop Work Order #2 - 10/3/2014
Balcony Demo (Gillikin Siding and Framing) - No Permit

Stop Work Order #3 - 10/10/2014 - Posted on top of Stop Work Order #2
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10102014-stop-work-order-3.html

AND

Back Stairs are yellow-tagged: Unsafe / Restricted Use
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10102014-exterior-and-back-stairs-stop.html

At least 4 code violations visible in this photo:
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10102014-back-stairs-gillikin-siding.html

10/27/2014 - Permits are Suspended (the first time)
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/10/10272014-permits-are-suspended-all-work.html

Stop Work Order #4 - 3/31/2015 - Exceeding the scope of permits
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2015/03/3312015-stop-work-order-4-gillikin.html

Red-Tagged - Unsafe Structure - 5/4/2015
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2015/05/542015-unsafe.html

December..
http://37441ststreetoakland.blogspot.com/2014/12/12182014-exterior.html

Project completed, "issue" must be closed.