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
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A Sh**ty Living Room For $1500 When I started writing this column a couple months ago, I didn't expect the sheer volume of depression-inducing examples of sorry accommodations that have come our way, either through quick Craigslist searches or
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fluorescent Lit Luxury At Third And Palou The hot deal I found for you today is this 100-square-foot room, listed under the apartments section because it apparently has a "private entry," which you could spend a few miserable months in
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Squalid Living Room And Bunk Bed To Call Your Own Are you on the run from an assault charge and in desperate need of a place to crash? Are you in the witness protection program or escaping an abusive home and seeking a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Your Very Own Walk-In Closet. No Really. For some reason, these people wanted a roommate by March 15th, and they couldn't find one! I can't figure it out! There's another open house tonight, you guys. Get on this. This spacious
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 100 Square Feet Of Beauty In Portola More and more on the cheaper end of things on Craigslist I'm seeing listings like this one, and that last one, that are illegal dwelling units if anyone cared to enforce the law.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A 'Conveniently Located' 170-Square-Foot Illegal In-Law Are you just about done with this life, unable to afford much more than $1000 in rent, and wholly unconcerned with the attractiveness of your surroundings? Allow me to point you to the
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Residential Hotel Edition There was a time when SROs and "residential hotels" were only for the truly poor, addicted, and downtrodden. Not anymore! Now, some have spiffed up and are advertising on Craigslist along with everyone
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Abandoning Housing For A Tent Well, for this edition of Apartment Sadness, I bring you not another Craigslist ad for a ridiculously sad living space, but a tale of sadness from a "full-time employed programmer" on Reddit who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Rent A $1500 Closet In A House Shared By 60 People Wow. So, this room in SoMa just popped up on Craigslist in a "co-ed community house" which, if I had to guess, has a A LOT of turnover. Why do I say that?
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Berkeley Tiki Hut Edition For this week's edition of Apartment Sadness, I take you across the Bay where someone is renting out an "in-law" that is more accurately described as a "tool shed in the backyard with
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 280-Square-Foot Sunset 1-Bedroom For $1280, Or Is It a Studio? As of today, I'm moving our Apartment Sadness column out of the News category and into Arts & Entertainment, because I'm pretty sure these posts are just being enjoyed for a dose of
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
SF News Apartment Sadness: 216-Square-Foot Mini-Studio Hits Market For $1425/Month If you would like to live alone in Noe Valley, you have no furniture besides a bed, and you're a relatively tiny person who does not cook and owns no clothes, I've got