Kip and Nicole Macy, a California couple nicknamed as the "Landlords from Hell," have been sentenced to four years in prison for terrorizing their tenants, authorities said.

The Macys owned and managed an apartment building in San Francisco. They pled guilty on Tuesday to two counts of residential burglary, stalking, and attempted grand theft.

The district attorney described the couples' antics as "insane," which ranged from cutting holes in a residents' living room floor with a power saw; soaking someone's beds, clothes, and electronics with ammonia; sending fraudulent emails to their victims' attorneys; and threatening them at gunpoint. "The defendants also cut multiple sections out of the joists below the victim's floors, in an apparent attempt to make the floor collapse while people were standing on it," the DA's office said. "Before cutting the joists, Nicole Macy had asked a Department of Building Inspector which beam she would need to cut to make the building structurally unsound in order to red tag the building and order all tenants out."

Kip Macy's attorney, Lisa DewBerry, denied that he had helped his wife in cutting the support beams. "He and his wife were naive when coming to a town like San Francisco, to try and do what they wanted to do, not realizing how tough the landlord-tenant laws are here," DewBerry said. "They're not saying that their behavior was appropriate. They regret their behavior."

The couple is also accused of purchasing a semi-automatic handgun and threatening to shoot the building manager, changing locks, cutting phone lines, shutting off utilities, removing a residents' belongings from their apartment and destroying them, multiple burglaries, and writing threatening letters to victims.

George Gascon, the district attorney, issued a statement which said, ""The actions of these defendants are so outlandish and brazen that it sounds like the plot line of a horror movie," district attorney George Gascon said in a statement. "This case shows you you cannot flee this country and avoid the consequences of your actions. These defendants will be held fully accountable for their crimes."

These events are alleged to have taken place from September 2005 to December 2007. The couple was charged with the felonies in April 2008, but posted bail and fled to Italy. They were extradited back to the United States by Italian authorities in May of this year. Bail was set at $2 million for each of them. They are scheduled to be sentenced to four years and four months in a state prison on Aug. 22.