Dozens of renters displaced by a monstrous blaze in their downtown building Monday quickly received a letter from their landlord announcing their leases had been “terminated.”
The renters could make an escorted trip to their scorched apartments to retrieve their belongings and return their keys, receiving a refund on their security deposits, said the letter. It came from Commonwealth Management, a company registered to prominent Oakland landlord Ted Dang, who’s owned the building at 1770 Broadway for decades.
But canceling the tenancies outright appears to “violate city law,” said lawyers for the city in a letter demanding Commonwealth withdraw the notices Tuesday…