Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Totally Cheap, Tricked Out Airstream, Must Find Place To Park It I'm going to give you all a break from the truly bleak and terrible world of SF apartments for one week only and instead point you to this totally cute, albeit probably unsustainable
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Child's Bunk Bed Shared With IT Guy, $700 CityLab, a web arm of The Atlantic, apparently is a fan of Apartment Sadness, because staff writer Kriston Capps just wrote this piece on all the terrible bunk beds you can find to
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: North Beach Flophouse With Bedbugs, $1450/Mo Wow. So, a tipster turned me on to this site, a "housing services" outfit from a real estate group called Latitude 38, and in addition to offering furnished corporate housing they also offer
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Bunk Bed Room, Sleeps Six, Real Cheap Remember this little of corner of hell from a few weeks back? Well I'll do you one better: This sorry piece of housing for the desperate is upstairs from a Thai massage parlor
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Box With A View For $3300 (And It's A Share) It used to be that you could save money finding a share in these parts. But not so much in SoMa, and not so much in fancy high-rises. This is an ad that
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Stuff Of Blurry Nightmares For some reason, the person who posted this ad to Craigslist for an in-law one-bedroom in the Bayview couldn't take a clear shot of the unit in question. Either their phone really sucks,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bidding War Over A Totally Sub-Par, Illegal Mission Apartment The satirical web series Tech Boom!, which I reviewed here last fall, has just come out with a second "season" of five brief episodes, of which the one above may be the funniest
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO That Calls Itself An SRO For the second week in a row we have a spiffed-up SRO that some owners are trying to fill with a better class of tenant than they've likely previously had, given the location
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Prison-Cell-Like SRO They're Calling An 'Efficiency' I considered highlighting another expensive atrocity this week - a $6500 one-bedroom that comes with some nice countertops, proximity to Duboce Park, free SF maid service, and constant noise from the Muni light
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Four-Bedroom, Eight-Bed House Perfect For Your Cult Somebody in the Inner Richmond has this fairly large house that they wanted to lease for top dollar. The strategy: stuff enough beds in its four bedrooms so that it sleeps 13, and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Doesn't Anyone Want This $6800 One-Bedroom? I must be getting jaded, ladies and gentlemen, because when this ad for a $6800/mo "custom" one-bedroom first was shown to me a week or so ago, my first instinct was "yeah
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: How Much Would You Bid For This Awful Cave? Ah, greed. Rather than pick a price based on comparable local units, one landlord in the Inner Richmond has decided to auction his crappy studio unit and only take applications from the highest
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live In A Sad Sunset Garage For $1300 In a bid to provide affordable housing for area students, one Sunset family is generously offering the use of their converted garage for a mere $1300 a month. A few years ago, a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Mission SRO For Just $1300 A Month This week's featured housing option it can't exactly be called an apartment is a single-room occupancy residential hotel smack in the heart of the Mission which has been advertising its rooms on Craigslist
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With A Lot Of Rules, And 'Not Forever,' With Noe Valley Couple For $2200/Mo I'm bringing you a pre-holiday bit of Apartment Sadness prior to tomorrow's day off, just so you can get it over with, wipe away the tears, and get on with celebrating America. Today's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Someone In The Excelsior Carpeted Their Basement Just For You This is what it's come to for under $1000, everyone. Someone has "newly remodeled" these two "rooms," which do not appear to have separate entry doors but do have separate bathrooms, and they
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Studio With A Wet Bar, No Guests Allowed, $1500 It's obvious as one trawls through Craigslist these days that there are a lot of inexperienced landlords trying to pawn off parts of their homes that aren't in use onto desperate people who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Illegal, Kitchen-Less Cell You know you have a right to a kitchen, right? Yeah, even if it's just a sink and a hotplate and a mini-fridge, that's what's required to exist in a legally rentable unit.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Box Truck Edition My apologies for the hiatus. There was Memorial Day weekend and then last Friday rolled around, the tip line was quiet, and there simply wasn't an apartment worthy of my depression as May
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fully Furnished Beauty In Chinatown, $2100 Today's Apartment Sadness listing suggests that the market might be getting a little worse for landlords/subletters looking to gouge the desperate and homeless. It's a six-month sublet in Chinatown that has appeared
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toolshed To Call Your Own For $800/Month This week's edition of Apartment Sadness came in via the tipline from some apartment listings in the Stanford University classifieds. Thus, we don't have a link to share, but needless to say if
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Furnished Hovel With Stripper Pole, No Actual Kitchen, $1785 I don't even know what to make of this Lower Nob Hill sublet that appears to be the current home of of either a) a very messy hooker, or b) a self-employed businesswoman
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With 13 People And A Dog For $1500 It is definitely the case that communal living has made a big comeback in modern-day SF, out of necessity, as the housing market tightens and legions of bushy-tailed twentysomethings arrive here none too