Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $80,000 awarded to tenants
$80,000 recovered for two roommates in Oakland who lived for four years with no heat, water leaks, holes in ceilings, plumbing issues, sewage leaks, and weekly electrical blackouts.
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Joseph Tobener's Legal Cases (25)
San Francisco, CA
Landlord or tenant Lawyer at San Francisco, CA
Practice Areas: Landlord & Tenant
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $82,500 awarded to tenant
$82,500 recovered on behalf of a single tenant who had a noisy and abusive neighbor.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $200,000 awarded to tenant
$200,000 recovered for single tenant in San Francisco who was evicted pursuant to a relative move-in eviction when the relative never moved in.
Windsor MHP
N/AOUTCOME: $1.2 million awared
$1.2 million plus recovered in action brought against landlord who failed to maintain Sonoma County mobile home park in habitable condition. Fifty park residents suffered with black, oily water for mo ... re than twenty years. The landlord could have attached to City water for a nominal cost, but refused to do it. Other habitability issues included park flooding, sewage leaks, broken fences, open ditches, and rats. Instead of making requested repairs the landlord blamed and harassed the tenants.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $195,000 awarded to tenants
$195,000 recovered for family with sewage running under their mobile home in San Jose in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $180,000 awarded to tenants
$180,000 recovered on behalf of a family in South San Francisco who lived with no heat, sewage leaks, and a cockroach infestation. There was no railing on a stairway where a minor fell and broke his a ... rm. The family sued their landlords for breach of the warranty of habitability, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and retaliatory eviction.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $500,000 awarded
$500,000 recovered in action brought against landlord who failed to maintain a two-unit building in Fremont in Alameda County. The three tenants had sewage overflows, yellow water, termites, rats, and ... no heat.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $187,500 awarded to tenant
$187,500 recovered on behalf of a couple who were wrongfully evicted from their San Francisco apartment when their landlord falsely claimed an owner would be moving in shortly. In fact, the owner plan ... ned to sell the building.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $315,000 awarded to tenant
$315,000 recovered on behalf of a single tenant who was forced out of his rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco when the landlord posted dozens of notes illegally demanding he move out in response ... to his complaints about lack of heat and unlawful rent increases.
Tenant v. Landlord
N/AOUTCOME: $425,000 awarded to tenant
$425,000 recovered in action brought against landlord who failed to offer a rent-controlled unit back to tenants after post-fire repairs were completed. Instead of complying with the San Francisco Ren ... t Ordinance and allowing the long-term tenants to return to the property, the landlords re-rented the unit to a third-party for thousands more per month.