She said she rented a home from a Berkeley professor. But he’d been dead for months

Sitting at the dining room table of a roughly $1 million Berkeley home, Hannah Catone insisted she had every right to be there.

Catone said she rented the property with her boyfriend after responding to an ad on Craigslist. She showed the Chronicle emails with a person who identified himself as the owner of the home, which belonged to UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw “PJ” Jeziorski.

“Look forward to being ur new landlord,” one email read. “Thanks, pj.”…

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