San Francisco's newest rentals, bunkbeds for $1,800 a month

[PasadenaTrudy]

Hella crazy...

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/3292097-inside-san-franciscos-newest-rentals-bunkbeds-for-1800-a-month/

[packman]

1. I blame Tony - the place went to hell after his song

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[yuiyoshida]

9. We only blame Tony if

The Giants lose a game.

[KamaAina]

11. Poor Tony must be all red in the face by now

[yuiyoshida]

13. Hey, even He knows the Giants will make come back run for it !!

[Warpy]

2. That's a hell of a lot of money for a short term flop

and there's no way kids who do that can save for something better down the line.

That's my complaint about it. No room with 4 bunks in it should generate ten grand a month.

[Warpy]

3. He left his heart because the rest of him couldn't afford to stay there

When prices get that outrageous, people work for a year or two and then stick it onto the resume and leave. Doors open when you've survived a city on either coast.

[WI_DEM]

4. I don't understand how anybody can afford to live in California.

Unless you're relatively well to do.

[PasadenaTrudy]

6. Not all of CA is like this!

And we certainly aren't all wealthy.

[yuiyoshida]

7. I'm living here in San Francisco ..

Yes it is expensive, I get paid once a month and after rent and utilities, I have a little left.. but not so much that I can do wonderful things...still I love this city, its food and its Asian culture..its Hispanic culture..and all the other cultures that are embedded here..

I guess its better than those Tokyo Tube Rentals!

[smirkymonkey]

18. I left San Francisco 15 years ago. I had an apartment on Sacramento Street for $950 per month on

Lafayette Park and it was huge! Even when I had to scale down for grad school, I found a cute studio on Fillmore and Webster for $650. It's amazing how much it has gone up! I doubt very much that salaries have kept pace. We used to pay 1/4 to maybe at most 1/3 of our salaries in rent and now it's more like 1/2.

I'm now living in Boston and paying a lot in rent, but at least I have my own studio in a nice area. There is no way I could afford a 1 BR here though. I'm also paying off a hefty student loan.

[yuiyoshida]

21. I have whats called a granny space

I pay both rent and utilities to my land lady that's about 1250 a month, and thanks to rent control it could be a lot higher. I was living in Santa Barbara, and had a place not far from the Ocean, and it was 750 a month. It jumped up to 1450 a month, I had to get out, there was no way at the time I could pay that.

[taught_me_patience]

5. World's largest gated community

thanks to the the anti-development nutbags that live up there. It's really sad and pathetic what San Francisco has become.

[KamaAina]

10. Anti-development nutbags? I would chalk it up to techie, uh, different kind of bags.

Have you been to The City lately? New construction is popping up everywhere, especially South of Market. The problem is it's almost all market value, which the aforementioned techie d-bags have inflated to a ridiculous level, largely because no one, present company included, wants to live down here in San Jose.

[KamaAina]

8. Whoa, whoa, whoa! No one with "Pasadena" in her username says "hella"!

That's Bay all the way!

[yuiyoshida]

12. Hey I have heard that from

My friends in L.A! so cool people down there!

[PasadenaTrudy]

16. Heehee! n/t

[LanternWaste]

14. Maybe there really is a bright side to living in small

Things like this make me think there really is a bright side to living in small, $450/mnth, one-bedroom, ghetto apartment in the middle of the city's warehouse district ten miles from anything (except my office-- which is only a mile away).

No doubt there are regional differences in COL, but $1800 amonth? Really? That's just way too rich for my skinny wallet.

[yuiyoshida]

15. 1800 is too much for me as well...

my rent with Utilities a month comes out around 1250 a month, in my one bed room granny apartment! Its in the garage area, so I hate it when the fog is thick and cold, seeps in under my front door. I have to put towels down for insulation.

[joeybee12]

17. I had an internship in SF in the summer of 1982...

I paid $130 a month!

[1939]

19. Hell of a lot better

than the digs my own government provided for me at Fort Knox back in 1960.

[madville]

20. A product of San Francisco's rising above average salaries

And limited housing supply. If you have a couple or roommates making a combined $150,000 a year then $3,000-$4,000 or so a month for rent or mortgage isn't unreasonable.