Michael Campesino pursued the 25th Street eviction in his usual fashion.

In November 2019, he tapped his company to buy the six-unit, aging Mission District apartment building. The building at 2920-30 25th St. was perfect for an Ellis Act eviction of all the tenants: Relatively cheap, rent-controlled, and a strong candidate to be flipped into lucrative, for-sale, tenancy-in-common units. Campesino had already threatened this at two other properties in the past five years.

Once he purchased the building, tenants said he met with them over cafecitos and galletas in January 2020 to break the news: He’d like to buy them out. These residents — most of whom have lived in the building since the 1980s, and three of whom are seniors — refused.

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Mission landlord tries third Ellis Act eviction in five years