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What people keep running into

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Storm warning says 15 inches possible by my area and the only alert Im getting is a vague county wide text that doesnt even say which streets usually lose power first. Last ice storm we were out four days and found out from a neighbor not any app. What do you all use that actually tracks outages by…
How do you actually tell if a listing photo is real before you drive across town for a tour? Showed up to see a one bedroom last week because the kitchen had this huge bay window in every pic. Window's not there. Landlord said the listing site enhances photos now and shrugged like that's just how it…
so my partner and i sat down again last night and ran the numbers for the third time this year and it still comes out the same way, we can afford the apartment or we can afford a kid someday or we can afford to actually save toward a house but not two of those at once let alone all three, and…
Landlord texted today asking for an extra 80 dollars this month for 'building maintenance fees.' Not in the lease. Not explained. Just a number and a Venmo request. Second time this year he's tried this. Paid it anyway because I don't want to be the tenant who gets 'noticed.'
Honestly how apartments are charging carpet change fees unreasonably and still getting away with it? After moving out from my apartment, they wanted to charge us for "odor" left with the carpet, which can be proven at all and is 100% false accusation, and they just backed off when I asked them to…
ok this is a small thing but its driving me insane, the delivery vans on my street park across driveways like its nothing, today i was boxed in for 20 min just trying to leave for work. idk if theres an app where people actually report this stuff, tired of leaving useless notes on a windsheild lol…
Landlord says the leak in the ceiling is 'on the list.' It has been on the list since July. The list apparently moves at the speed of continental drift. Bucket's doing great though, really earning its keep this month.
Got the new electric bill and about choked. Up almost 40 percent from last year, no new appliances, no extra AC use, nothing on my end changed at all. Turns out the county approved a new data center campus about four miles out last year and nobody mailed us a notice, we just started seeing it on the…
the weather channel keeps flashing orange over the gulf again and i already know how this goes, power out for four maybe five days, fridge full of stuff we'll have to throw out, phone dying by day two... we lived through isaias and I still flinch every time the forecast guy gets that tone in his…
Does anything let you rent a backup battery for just hurricane season instead of buying a whole setup? The Generac quote we got was insane for something we'd maybe need two weeks a year. We're renters anyway so a built in system isn't even on the table. Just want the fridge and a fan to survive a…
Does anyone actually understand flood insurance before a storm shows up or is everyone just winging it like me. There's a new system forming in the gulf and the news keeps saying it could hit our area and I only just now found out my regular policy doesn't cover any of it, there's a whole separate…
AC broke two weeks ago. It's 99 degrees. Landlord says the repairman is "on the way." My neighbor said the same thing happened to her last August and she's still waiting.
Finally told my parents I can't afford to move out yet. I'm 28. I wasn't planning on feeling ashamed about it, but here I am.
Applied for the ROAD to Housing waitlist. Estimated wait is 16 months. We have a toddler. We are 34. We are living with my in-laws.
Signed a lease today. It's 41% of my take-home. The articles keep saying the housing market is "cooling." I wonder who they're writing for.
Median home price here is $620K. With current mortgage rates I would need to earn double what I make now just to qualify. I have been saving for 6 years. I watched the window close in real time. Curious how many people have completely given up on buying and what you did instead.
My landlord just handed me a 22% rent increase notice with 30 days to respond. I have two kids in school nearby and moving would uproot everything. I have been a good tenant for four years. Has anyone successfully negotiated with a landlord or found tenant protections that actually work in SF?
Landlord just sent a 19% rent increase notice. In writing. For a 1-bedroom I've been in for 4 years. The lease renewal is in 6 weeks. I make decent money but this would be $340 more per month. The math doesn't work. Housing in this country is broken.
Just got my lease renewal. Landlord raised rent 18%. I make decent money and still had to run the math three times to figure out if I can stay. Friends who make less are looking at two-hour commutes or leaving the city entirely. When does the housing crisis start getting treated as the economic…
Heard that rents in some SF neighborhoods are slightly softening. I want to feel hopeful about this. I also know that slightly softening from an already impossible number is not really relief. But I'll take any movement in the right direction.
Gas goes down and I barely notice. Rent goes up and it changes my life. These two things are not the same kind of relief and I wish the headlines treated them that way.
The homeless situation near Civic Center is heartbreaking. These are people who need real help, not just sweeps. Where's the compassion?