Bay Area Receivership Group

BARG Attorney Ryan Griffith has been invited to speak at the CACEO Annual Seminar on Receiverships. Ryan Griffith and Bay Area Receivership Group are excited to educate Code Enforcement Professionals about the Health and Safety Receivership Remedy.

On September 2, 2020 the Alameda County Superior Court appointed Gerard F. Keena II over 4110 Fruitvale, Avenue in Oakland California. This Property has been a nuisance for years and is the site of what appears to be an illegal industrial recycling center in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Neighbors report drilling and working at all hours of the night, then illegal dumping strewn about their streets every morning. Despite repeated attempts by neighbors to speak wit...h the Property Owner nothing has ever been accomplished. This is because the Property owner simply ignores or threatens his neighbors. This situation left the Oakland City Attorney's Office no other choice but to seek the appointment of a Receiver to bring the nuisance conditions at 4110 Fruitvale under control. On September 2, 2020 the Hon. Judge James Reilly of the Alameda County Superior Court reviewed the City of Oakland's hundreds of pages of documents supporting the need for the receivership petition, as well as several declarations from the neighbors impacted by the nuisance and appointed Gerard Keena as Receiver in Alameda County Case RG19043608. Now that Gerard has been appointed as Receiver he and his team at Bay Area Receivership Group will begin the process of working to abate the nuisance conditions at the Property and bringing peace to the neighborhood.

On August 20, 2020 the City of Brisbane successfully appointed Gerard F. Keena II as Receiver over a longstanding nuisance apartment building that has been the site of two substantial fires in the past five years. The appointment was made by Judge George A. Miriam in San Mateo County Court Case #20-CIV-02498. Gerard and his team at Bay Area Receivership Group look forward to abating the nuisance conditions at this apartment building, which is located in the heart of beautiful Downtown Brisbane. Once nuisances are abated the Property can be brought into productive use. Gerard Keena and everyone at Bay Area Receivership Group look forward to working with the City of Brisbane and all those interested in the Property to make this project a success.

The Sonoma County Counsel’s Office successfully appointed Gerard Keena as a receiver over a nuisance Property in Sonoma County, in Sonoma County Case #SCV-264342 on July 30, 2020. The Property at 18450 1ST STREET, SONOMA, CALIFORNIA 94576 has been a longstanding nuisance for years. Gerard Keena and his team at Bay Area Receivership Group are now looking forward to abating the nuisances presented by the Property to bring it back into productive use.

Bay Area Receivership Group is a firm that specializes in abating dangerous conditions at nuisance properties using California Health and Safety Code section 17980.7. California Health and Safety Code section 17980.7 allows Cities and Counties to appoint a Receiver over nuisance properties, which allows us to abate the dangerous conditions at nuisance properties.

On August 7, 2020 The Vallejo City Attorney’s Attorney successfully appointed Gerard F. Keena appointed over a nuisance property located at 2618 Redwood Street, Vallejo, California in Solano County Case # FCS054747. The City of Vallejo tried diligently to abate the nuisances at the Property. However, the owner passed away several months ago without a will or trust. Furthermore, none of his family members want the Property, because it has fallen into a severe state of disre...pair. The severe dilapidation of the property is evidenced by the numerous squatters occupying it, as well as the substantial debris strewn everywhere and the significant fire hazards at the property. Gerard Keena and members of Bay Area Receivership Group will immediately begin the process of bringing this Property into compliance now that the Solano County Court has approved the Vallejo City Attorney’s receivership petition.