Jennifer Sarkany and her partner Ramsey Abouremeleh say they moved into the Outer Sunset home they rented in 2018 expecting the best. They were looking for a safe neighborhood close to Sarkany’s school.

Instead, they say the next eight months were a waking nightmare, eventually leading to an acrimonious legal battle against their landlord Christie West.

“It ended up pretty much being hell on earth,” Sarkany said.

Two other tenants, Sandra Fierro and Nina Robin, moved into the house around the same time, and would also end up as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against West alleging a pattern of harassment, wrongful eviction attempts, and negligence, among other issues.

The tenants say West lived in an unpermitted downstairs unit at the house and allowed a steady stream of people to stay in the

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