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From SF Business Times: Klingbeil Capital latest to feast on Lembi holdings Klingbeil Capital Management has joined the growing cadre of private real estate investment firms taking advantage of the dramatic implosion of the Lembi family’s apartment empire. The Washington D.C.-based owner paid $10 million for three San Francisco buildings previously owned by the Lembi Latest on Lembi Collapse

Same Business Plan, Different City

A British company, The New York Times reports, had the same idea as the Lembi’s did, and met a similar fate. Dawnay Day bought up 47 rent controlled apartment buildings in East Harlem hoping to “ease out” the lower paying tenants and rehabilitate the apartments for a more affluent crowd of urban pioneers. The bottom Same Business Plan, Different City