mr. hyman's unit. i have viewed mr. hyman's unit and the outside of the property and to do such a merger would require the moving of walls and the moving of a staircase. if the units are merged and this becomes a single family home, it will lose its rent controlled status under the rent ordinance. mr. hyman would be subject to a rent increase without limitation that he could not afford. his rent could be or could go as high as $10,000, maybe more. in addition, if this building were to become a single family home, mr. hyman would be... a owner move in eviction. protection tenants in multiunits could not be evict but single family homes are exempt from that requirement. in addition, it is difficult for an owner who lives in the same building as the tenant to do an owner move in eviction due to the good faith requirements of the rent ordinance as it seems suspicious, why is the owner trying to move into the tenant's unit when he already occupies a unit in the same building? >> the owner claims that he has no intention to ev

mr. hyman's unit will remain as a separate rent controlled unit and that mr. hyman could not be evicted unless there is a good cause reason under the rent ordinance and the reason is not a no-fault eviction, he cannot evicted for an ellis act for illegal unit and the fact that he is turning this into condos or that somehow he is by living in his unit it is there for somehow illegally using this unit for whatever reason it is not considered a separate single unit. they have, in fact, admitted that they planned to do rent increases. if this were... mr. zaches just said on the record that they were going to increase his rent. as a single family home the rent could be increased without limitation whatsoever. mr. hyman could go to paying five times his rent. and this would be a defacto eviction. >> we would have him stipulate no rent increase. and we ask that this board as a condition of approving these permits, if they are not going to deny them, that the owner put on the record he will not do any sort of no-fault eviction on my client and will be or abide by the r

mr. hyman and he is a goodman and i have no plan of evicting him. i am currently unemployed and i am looking for work in the u.s. and potentially will have to move to a job somewhere. to the contrary i am evicting myself. >> it will create a hardship for me and i live modestly and i live in a studio apartment and i have been there two years and i live with my partner who is a nurse and works for the va. and i am a little shocked and dismayed that i have characterized this as a single family home or sneaky or unjustly trying to enrich myself. it is clear from my record that is inconsistent with who i am and my record. i would suggest that you consider the following that within hours of my filing my brief i was approached with a settlement amount of 6 figure settlement amount from the tenant saying that he would move out if i paid him that amount of money. i don't have that amount of money, it is not an out come that i can afford. i realize that this is very emotional. i too have emotions around

mr. hyman i think that my client is okay with that. my client is leaving the property and mr. hyman is getting to stay, it is difficult for me to understand how he has a legitimate objection, there may be rent increases and the change of the legal status of the rent control issues but that is nothing that this board has control over, that is an issue of state law. that the state legislature has decided and determine. this building actually has been exempt from rent control as a single family dwelling and we are bringing it into the legal status he will be allowed to remain and we are willing to enter into the stimulations that make that clear. there is not going to be any disruption with his tentcy, based upon the representations and simply put, the arguments made by counsel that we somehow need another engineer to come in in order to justify this are irrelevant. the first of all there are three lawyers here on behalf of this, why is there not an, engineer here, they could have brought it in to