SPORC

Small Property Owners for Reasonable Controls

A PAC of Insignificant Landlords*

We are small** landlords and we support tenant protections, rent control, and limits on evictions because as landlords—let’s be honest—we’ve got it way too good.

It doesn’t take a genius to be a landlord.

We didn’t build anything. We didn’t sacrifice and work hard to make our investment so crazily valuable. We didn’t execute a visionary, savvy, and shrewd business plan or invent the greatest startup or app. We don’t do any of the cool things that make San Francisco a desirable place to live.

A lot of us inherited something or stumbled into a slice of real estate in a market that has exploded like an egg in the microwave.

Being a landlord in San Francisco is like being a coke-dealer in the eighties. People are basically throwing money at you all the time for doing nothing. It’s pretty sweet.

Of course we rely on our rental income as part of our family income and live better lives because of it, but we can make a reasonable profit from rental income without being jerks to our tenants or gouging the market.

That’s why we think we need to balance our right to make money for nothing with those of the people who make this city so special in the first place.

We have too many protections and it’s too easy for us to make basically unlimited profit so we need fewer rights.

Like all landlords, we’re not that smart and we’re not special. Nobody made us be landlords. We call on all policymakers to give us the respect we deserve, which is not much.