Millis

BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs own a three-unit residential rental property in San Francisco and invoked the Act.2 Defendants Sean Millis and Michelle Mattera are long-term tenants of one unit owned by plaintiffs at 2710 Sutter Street (the premises). Plaintiffs pled, based on information and belief, that Millis entered into a tenancy agreement for the premises with plaintiffs’ predecessor in 1995. In 1999, Millis entered into a written tenancy agreement with plaintiffs’ predecessor; plaintiffs further alleged, based on information and belief, that Mattera moved into the premises as a co-tenant in 2005. Plaintiffs alleged that defendants are the only occupants of the premises and the only persons entitled to relocation assistance payments under the Rent Ordinance. On November 13, 2019, plaintiffs served defendants with a 120-Day Notice of Termination of Tenancy (the termination notice) and half of the relocation assistance payments due to defendants under the Rent Ordinance. In response to the termination notice, defendants both claimed disability status,

2The facts set forth herein are taken from plaintiffs’ operative first amended complaint.

2 and plaintiffs provided to each defendant…