Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live In A Bathroom Above A Korean Restaurant In Oakland For $2000/Mo As SF's rental market softens a little bit don't get me wrong, people are still trying to get $13,500/mo for a three-bedroom like this it's been slightly less easy to find
SF News Apartment Sadness: Small Bedroom, With A Big Catch I share this week's piece of shared-apartment schadenfreude not because it's especially expensive (it's not!), but because to get cheap rent in these crazy times, there's always a catch. And this one kind
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Actual Shipping Container In The Bayview, $600/Mo Last summer, the local media caught wind of a 31-year-old business school grad who'd built an ersatz apartment complex out of 11 shipping containers that were all in an Oakland warehouse somewhere, for
Arts & Entertainment Now Someone Is Just Trolling Apartment Sadness Look, you guys. Things remain bad with the housing! We know all the ugliness that's out there! But must people really get on Craigslist and post things like this, which are clearly fake,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Living Rooms Are The New Studios You may have noticed that Apartment Sadness hasn't been an every-Friday thing recently, and if you did, thanks for caring. But while I will attempt to continue diligently chronicling the accommodational woes of
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Truly Sad Sleeper Van Going For $800/Month It's not the first van or truck to be in this column, and it won't be the last probably, but this sleeper van picked up by Curbed this week really takes the cake
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A SoMa Two-Bedroom With Three Others, Wall Partitions Here's one way to make your expensive SoMa rental a lot less expensive: Fill it with three more people and charge them $1,350 apiece! This particular Craigslist ad caught my eye because
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Tale Of A TIC And An Airbnb Gone Really, Really Bad Since there are, after all, lots of sad housing situations in San Francisco these days that do not appear on Craigslist, I'm taking a little moment in this column to highlight one of
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl Apartment Sadness: $900 Per Person Per Night To Sleep On Air Mattresses Wow! So you saw how that one guy was trying to charge basically $10K a night for his furnished three-bedroom in North Beach for Super Bowl weekend? (And he might have gotten it,
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Bedbuggy, Syringe-Strewn SRO, $1450/Mo How would you like a furnished, 300-square-foot hotel room in which to live out your meager existence in San Francisco alongside some substance-prone regulars who pay a daily rate and keep some odd
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Awesome Free Room Available If You Will Be This Engineer's Girlfriend There's a longstanding cliché about engineers of all stripes being socially awkward and/or inept, and that probably holds true with a guy who's posted an ad on Craigslist that ought to be
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Furnished Room With Twin Bed To Discourage Guests You can often tell through just a few clues in the text and tone of a Craigslist listing if potential roommates are going to be total dicks. And such is the case with
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: This Hovel In Oceanview Rents For $3500/Mo? We're back! It's 2016, and even though, according to some sources, apartment rents may be finally coming down slightly along with those in the rest of the country, housing in SF is going
Arts & Entertainment The Worst And Saddest Of Apartment Sadness, 2015 Since today is basically a Friday, and the last day of the year, I've decided to recap this terribly sad, though sadly funny year of Craigslist scouring and apartment-hunting schadenfreude. No doubt, if
SF News Listing For $500-A-Month Crawl Space Is Real, And People Want To Rent It Look, we get it: There are a lot of people in the Bay Area who really, really need a place to live. There are equally a lot of people attempting to capitalize on
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Two Bunk-Bed 'Hacker' Dorms Described As 'Luxe,' And 'High-End' While it's not every week I see a retirement home hitting the open market, seeking all ages of renters for its SROs and three squares a day, it is every week that I
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Man Makes Hundreds Renting Out Literal Shack Apartment Sadness arrives early this week! Sort of... This is less an apartment than it is a decrepit shack that may be a plywood-walled, converted garage. As part of a stunt of some
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO In An Actual Retirement Home In The 'Loin The trend of trying to fill SRO units that would previously have only been marketable to people on fixed incomes or the relatively indigent/substance dependent with well off newcomers to town has
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Lovely Murder Basement In The Bayview, $800/Mo Are you feeling poor, by San Francisco standards, and in desperate need to live within the city limits for less than $1000 a month? You don't have many options, I'm afraid. Even rooms
SF News Apartment Sadness: $3800 For Studio... In Sausalito We're at the point where I don't balk at $3800 a month for a studio. There are definitely studios going for that and more, with views, in The Jasper. But that's SoMa. That's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Jerk In San Mateo Will Rent You Studio For $1400 If You Work For Him This week's listing really made me angry for a few reasons. First of all, it's basically a job listing tucked in under the apartment listings. Second of all, the person listing it, who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Room With No Walls, $1300/Mo I'm back! Did you miss me and this sad, sad column last week while I was on vacation, far away from the sadness? Well, buck up, because there are a lot more rental
SF News Another Day, Another Story Of A Tech Worker Living Out Of A Truck I could save this for Apartment Sadness, but at this point, it's old hat! Business Insider catches up with yet another young employee at Google who's continuing the grand tradition of willful homelessness,
SF News Local Software Engineer Lives In A Van Because She's Too Frugal To Pay High Rent An employed tech worker who recently moved to the Bay Area decided that rents were too high and her housing options were on the lower end of the spectrum were too depressing, so
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Take An MTV Cribs-Style Tour Of A Mission Tech Hostel SFist's Caleb Pershan is pinch-hitting on the Apartment Sadness column this week, with a video twist. "They haven't gotten much water, recently," says a resident of the 41-room, Bitcoin-friendly community at 20Mission, gesturing
