The property Nadia Lama was to receive includes a 2006 Toyota Avalon $25,000 to pay the legal bills she’d incurred a little more than $750,000 in cash due upon the sale of two of the family’s properties and finally, the Bocana Street residence occupied by Deb Follingstad and the $7,500 to hire a lawyer to evict her. 31 in which the three Lama sisters and their three brothers, along with some of their children, agreed to close the family trusts and distribute their assets. The court proceeding resulted in an agreement last Dec. Assets named in the petition and exhibits include a small Cortland Avenue market, Chuck’s Store, the store’s liquor license, eight residential properties in San Francisco, one in Burlingame, and unspecified real estate in Chile. In September 2013, she filed a probate petition in Superior Court seeking to compel her sister Claudia, the overseer of several family trusts set up by Chuck Lama, to account for the family’s assets. That alleged squabble also appears to have played a role in Nadia Lama’s dramatic increase of Deb Follingstad’s rent. “Chuck Lama’s heirs were fighting over their share of the inheritance which demanded selling properties or having the heirs occupy them as residences,” Tobener’s brief says. That sale, Tobener suggested in a trial brief that outlined more than $1 million in potential damages, was triggered by a battle among Shukry Lama’s heirs over the property he’d left behind when he died in 2012. The suit argued that the rent increase was far above market rate and designed to get Gelfant and Worrell to leave so that Lamas could sell the property. Superior Court filings show that Nina Gelfant and Gayle Worrell alleged they were forced from their one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 720-square-foot Cortland Avenue apartment after the Lamas raised the rent from $1,650 to $4,250 - 157 percent.

These days he works for KQED, where he just published a remarkably detailed report on the Lama family dispute that lies at the heart of the now-infamous 315 Bocana rent-increase controversy.īrekke’s reporting largely confirms rumors that have been rippling through Bernal Heights for the last few days, to the effect that as a result of the family feud, Bernal neighbor and 355 Bocana property owner Nadia Lama hoped to evict Neigbor Deb Follingstad, because Neighbor Nadia herself needs a place to live.

Veteran reporter Dan Brekke knows how to do the legwork required to crack a story open.

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