Rent
#rent · 8 voices
What people keep running into
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- 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…
- 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.