James Kilpatrick is sued by China Town tenants and Oakland City AttorneyLandlord is sued for mistreating Oakland China Town rentersBy Lynda Carson - August 21, 2016Oakland — James Kilpatrick, Jaevon Marshall, NAI Northern California/Highview Property Management, and Green Group LP, the owners of 524 8th St in Oakland, have been sued for damages and equitable relief by around 14 residents of an Oakland China Town residential building. The low-income renters are receiving legal help from the Oakland City Attorney, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, and attorney Robert Salinas of the law firm Sundeen Salinas & Pyle. James Kilpatrick and the group he is operating with has also been ordered by a judge to repair a number of shared bathrooms and shared kitchen areas that have been demolished in the cockroach infested building at 524 8th St., according to reports. Presently around 34 residents share one kitchen, according to reports, and they are allegedly terrified, angry, and pissed off about the current slum like conditions existing at the building. The tenants pay around $400 a month in the SRO, but some new tenants who allegedly have rented some rooms recently there through Airbnb are paying as much as $70 a night to live in a building that is more like a construction area, with slum like conditions.According to public records, James Kilpatrick of 475 14th Street, Suite 700, in Oakland, has had problems in the past, and has a brokers license that was suspended in 2009, and in 2012 NAI Northern California - License ID: 01870488 is licensed in California.Highview Property Management, LLC, entity number 201304610166 is listed with the Secretary of State in California as being active in the jurisdiction of Nevada, but the record search in Nevada is down for maintenance at the moment, and it can not be verified.Green Group, LP, entity number 201519000005 is listed as being active in California, with Jaevon Marshall as the Agent for Service of Process.On Tuesday, August 23, another hearing is scheduled for case number RG16820040.Lynda Carson may be reached at tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com >>>>>>>>>>>>