“My son and I are serious, thoughtful real estate owners, investors and operators,” Patrick Nesbitt, Nob Hill’s largest shareholder and leader of the private equity company that purchased the complex in 2018, said in an email. In court filings, he stressed that the ownership group was kept in the dark about the state of the property. “Unfortunately, Nob Hill has been an unmitigated disaster from almost the beginning of our ownership.”

And yet, things only began deteriorating due to sheer coincidence