The Taplins are associated with at least 555 Oakland evictions under numerous LLCs. Albert Russell Taplin is an inactive attorney who was placed on probation by the CA State Bar in in 1995. His son Riaz joined him in the real estate business while in high school, focusing on the “ultra-luxury San Francisco real estate market.” Later Riaz “set forth to transform the dilapidated buildings” of Oakland, and now manage over 800 apartments in the east bay, with a “core competency in multi-family re-positioning.”
