Bay Area Home Where Landlord Allegedly Executed Tenant Now Renting for Nearly Double the Price

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A San Francisco home where prosecutors say a landlord executed his tenant outside the property is back on the rental market at an astonishing price.

In August, HRH Real Estate Services listed the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 2518 46th Ave. in the Outer Sunset neighborhood for $8,000.

Zillow shows that the price dropped to $6,300 earlier this month, still nearly double what the slain tenant, Eric Bigone, was paying before he was killed during the early hours of Sunday, May 17.

When Bigone rented the Outer Sunset home from Phillipe Chagniot in 2023, he agreed to pay $3,200 a month for rent, according to a lawsuit filed in June by the victim's family.

In the months before the killing, Chagniot wanted to sell the home and told Bigone he needed to leave the property, according to the lawsuit.

But when Bigone refused, Chagniot began harassing and trying to intimidate his tenant, according to the lawsuit.

That culminated when Chagniot ambushed and killed Bigone outside the property, prosecutors said.

Chagniot planned the killing, spray-painted nearby surveillance cameras in preparation and then set a fire outside Bigone's home to lure him out, authorities said.

When Bigone stepped outside to put out the fire, Chagniot raised an automatic gun with a silencer attached and shot the 58-year-old in the back, police said.

The 68-year-old then stood over Bigone and shot him again before running away from the scene, police said.

Chagniot was arrested in connection with Bigone's killing and charged with murder, along with an allegation that he used a firearm in the commission of the murder, and a special circumstance allegation of lying in wait. He was also charged with assault with an automatic firearm, arson, possession of an automatic firearm, possession of a silencer, and possession of a high-capacity magazine.

A San Francisco judge, meanwhile, has barred the home from being sold while the case against Chagniot plays out in court, according to the San Francisco Standard.