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The Iced Coffee Hour

California Lawyer Breaks Silence on Nightmare Squatters, Lawsuits, & $50,000 Evictions

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.4 โ€ข 786 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 9 April 2026

โฑ๏ธ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

Is there a good reason why the rent hasn't been paid? What your fucking cameraman out of my f***ing face? The tenants from hell are back. They move in, but then they won't pay and they won't leave. What's the most difficult part of being a landlord? The reality is it's gotten so bad in California that any mistake can cost you a property. How would you like to live in a beautiful home without ever having to pay rent or a mortgage?

0:21.6

Sounds pretty good, does it?

0:22.6

I've seen renters live on the property for years and not pay a single dime.

0:26.6

Hey, Barb, can we talk to you about why you guys have so many lawsuits against guys?

0:31.6

Don't touch me.

0:32.6

This is not an accident. The system is designed to make you fail.

0:35.6

I would describe them as people who have a

0:38.3

system figured out. So is the eviction system intentionally designed to fail? Yes. The entire

0:44.5

market is broken and most people just don't realize it yet. People who benefit from this really

0:48.4

are institutional landlords, big corporations and mom and pop landlords lose everything.

0:54.7

100%. They have to sell. It's another option.

0:57.8

If you wanted to be a tenant and exploit these laws as much as you could, how would you do it and how

1:03.8

much money do you think you could make?

1:17.7

Something I really haven't talked about a lot lately is that I am selling off all of my real estate in California.

1:22.2

Things have gotten so bad. I see the writing on the wall, and I just want to get out.

1:26.2

And I want to say the straw that broke the camel's back is you.

1:30.0

I found you on Twitter. We had a good talk. You are an eviction attorney. You look into real estate. We had a great talk. And I want to say within 10

1:35.8

minutes, you convinced me to not have anything to do with Los Angeles, California. Yeah.

1:42.2

Being a landlord. So if you want to introduce yourself, thank you so much for having me on. I'm Avi Sinae. I'm an eviction trial lawyer in LA. The ward is out for a lot of these professional tenants. And you see them again and again and again in the courtroom. They're represented by the same lawyers, evicted by the same lawyers, and they understand how to game the system,

2:02.0

right? They know that if they go to the property owner and then they just stop paying rent.

2:07.4

And then they come and say to Lano, look, it's going to cost you $20,000 to evict me.

2:11.9

Once you give me $10, I'll leave. And half the time it works. And if it doesn't work, they just know how to stretch a case for six to nine months.

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