Mireya Letayf

I lived at 2572 McAllister Street for over three years. I have been an SF resident for 9 years, and have rented 7 homes. This was by far the most wonderful experience I have had in renting, and I stayed there for over 3 years.
I originally moved in with 2 friends. When Chris got engaged and chose to move out mid lease, she couldn’t have been more supportive for him and could not have been nicer to let me choose a similar replacement within days. When I needed to leave for family reasons after year 3, again she was the most compassionate and helpful person. She welcomed the friend I recommended, and I liked her so much I cried when I said goodbye.
In the three years I lived there, everything was maintained. After a call that our dishwasher leaked slightly, she promptly bought us a new dishwasher, and took care to paint the exterior and had a gardener for the backyard. She added a new partition to hide our garbage cans also, and had an inspector come to look for mold, which was so nice and he found none. The next door neighbor, Michael is an excellent handyman, and super cool guy, basically on call for her tenants ²⁴⁄₇. I think she had him plant flowers for us to brighten it up one day, but it might have been all him! If Mireya went out of town, she would let us know that we would be reimbursed for anything at all that was an emergency if he couldn’t help us, but that never happened.
She brought us really sweet gifts each year for the holidays, once she brought over a beautiful orchid and left it on our steps. She even came to our mailbox to pick up the rent check so we wouldn’t have to worry about it. She went out of her way to have her husband (who I presume is busy being a professor) write all of us nice letters so we could join the USF gym although we were not even students there.
What more can a person ask for? I wish I still lived there.

I just read the bad review and think it is absolutely ridiculous. I happen to have lived in the same house and have known Mireya for many years and she is one of the most honest people I know. My time at the house was really great and I’m sure anyone else, other than the tenants that lived at the apartment during the time of this reviewer would have great things to say about Mireya. Here are the facts as I know them.
First off, the obvious. Of course Mireya rents mostly to students, because the house is located a block from USF. For this reviewer to assume the worse is ridiculous.
Second, as is the case in almost all San Francisco houses. They are old and things break down. I have had it happen to me throughout my renting life and usually it happens a few times a year. As it turned out, the same piece broke twice, once upstairs and once down stairs. Does that make her negligent. I don’t think so.
The tenants who live there at that time, were about the most litigious nightmare tenants you could imagine. I remember talking to Mireya about these tenants and she was going crazy trying to satisfy them. Yes, she paid for 6 weeks of hotel, contrary to what the reviewer wrote. So that is yet another indication of this person’s malicious intent. Look at the reviewers other tenant reviews and you’ll get a sense of the person.
Mireya was told by the tenant that it was unsafe to live there. She asked why and the tenant basically said that things broke down a lot. Obviously they were a bit intolerant of renting situations. Anyway, she offered to pay the tenant money if she wanted to leave, the tenant accepted, then after the money was paid, the tenant said she didn’t want to leave after-​all. Can you believe that?!
After that, and after everyone was happy again, the second problem occurred. She paid the tenant a large some of money to settle suit that they brought against her from the time where they said they wanted to leave and then changed their mind. Did Mireya know every law, no, but once she knew these people were litigious you can bet she talked to a lawyer from that point. They settled and wrote a letter stating they were completely satisfied with the terms and now this review. WOW!!!
Poor lady is the nicest person you’d ever meet. She was taken advantage by sue happy teenagers who wanted to take advantage of her niceness. Really sad.
Bottom line is that I’m not the only one that enjoyed living at the house. Tons and tons of students have had great experiences there. Just this one year was a problem. By the way, that was the only year that she didn’t pick the tenants and the person who did (a relative) did not know as much about screening tenants.
Don”t worry about living in this place. If I didn’t own a house, I would live there again.

STUDENTS BEWARE:
I lived here for a year. Rent was $ 940/​month + utilities. This initially seemed like a really good spot– I’m a USF student, and the house is less than a block away and seemed like it was in fairly good shape. WRONG: the house flooded twice in less than a year and the noise level (due to poor insulation) was absolutely intolerable. By flooded, I mean all my belongings were ruined and the house became unliveable, both times, because the incredibly cheap landlord had never made proper renovations, repairs to the plumbing/​used the cheapest materials imaginable, and cheap labor to make cheap fixes.
First flood: pipe exploded, water was blasting everywhere for an hour because we were not home. The landlord did not offer my roommate and I a place to stay as is the law in San Francisco, instead kicked us out with nowhere to go and no reimbursement for our damaged belongings.
6 months later.
Second flood: pipe exploded, this time the water was going for several hours as we were all asleep. The landlord did not even try to call a plumber during the emergency, she was instead trying to reach her friends so she could get a deal. Keep in mind, this is while water was shooting out of the wall and we were 2 feet deep in water, DURING FINALS. All my electronics and clothes were ruined by filthy water. Then she tried to evict us, with a week’s notice, without offering any relocation fees or damaged property money.
In all honesty, she is now being sued. She does not understand SF renter’s rights, or that she can’t take advantage of students. She probably knew exactly what she was doing to us, because in the beginning of the year added a caviat to the lease, saying that in the event of disasters like floods, she is not responsible. Too bad for her, the lease does not override SF law.
The people examining the house have told me countless times, the floods should have never happened. It is a result of negligence to renovation and repairs.
It seems that Mireya targets students because they come in unknowingly, are younger and inexperienced and the parents pay the rent. Every time she was supposed to insulate the house or redo all the plumbing, she hasn’t. Instead, she waits for new students to start every year, and moves new people in after making a cheap fix. The woman is renting an old, run down, disaster-​prone house for $ 5,000/per month. She is currently being evaluated by leasing committee of SF; if her methods are sub-​par, she will be banned from ever leasing this property again.
Take it from the previous residents at this house: the best decision we made was to leave. Unless this property is under new management, please reconsider renting here.