SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
SF News Report: Palo Alto Has The Highest Rents In The US, SF Is #2 According to "rental marketplace" Lovely, though we here in San Francisco feel that we have dreadfully high rents, it could be worse: we could live in Palo Alto. The company's Q3 Rental Market
SF News Meanwhile, In Barcelona... Proving that San Francisco isn't the only city facing renters' woes, Erik Keeling (my brother, who has been living in Spain for the last 20 years) sends in this pic from the Barceloneta
SF News What Is Your San Francisco Paycheck Really Worth? San Franciscans are well aware that they pay way too much in rent, we just like to justify it by saying dumb things like, "but we never have to pay for air conditioning!
SF News San Francisco Going After Airbnb Hosts Even as San Francisco works with Airbnb and other short-term rental services to extract the city's share of taxes, the city itself and local landlords are cracking down on laws that make it
SF News Greg Gopman, Startup Founder Who Lambasted Homeless People, Is Getting Sued Just days after we wondered what despiser of the undomiciled Greg Gopman was up to, we have our answer: he's busy getting sued. Former AngelHack CEO Gopman, as you know, authored a Facebook
SF News Here's Why S.F. Rents Jumped 3-Times Higher Than National Average San Francisco's rent skyrocketed to mind-numbing heights in December. We're three-times higher than the national average, it seems. According to Trulia, "In December, rental prices in San Francisco rose 10.6%, which is
SF News New S.F. Rent Map Says 1 BRs Now Average $2,800 Unless you've been living under a (rent-controlled) rock, you know that rental wars are in full swing, and another rent map shows just how expensive the city has become. According to the map,
SF News Renowned Fulton Street Slumlord Norman Sabel Arrested A scary, allegedly meth-addled landlord who owns a 24-unit building at 1725 Fulton Street was arrested Monday after he broke into a tenant's apartment and subsequently got into a fight with police officers.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <I>RENT</I> Returns to San Francisco And this time, it’s with original Broadway cast member Gwen Stewart, the soloist who belts out that ridiculously high note at the end of said song. Oh, and Adam Pascal and Anthony
SF News CitiApartments, Crappier Than Ever Before? Did you really think the sinking economy would sharpen the tacks over at CitiAparements? No. No, it has not. Matt Baume over at Curbed tells the harrowing tale of supposed squalor at one
SF News Rent a Goat Unless you're Chardonnay from The Love of Ray J, who eschews the smooth, tangy taste of chèvre, you might be interested in renting a goat. But where can you find one of these
SF News US Rental Market Downfall is Your Gain According to a recent report, "[t]he vacancy rate for U.S. apartments hit a three-year high in the first quarter and asking rents dropped the most in at least 10 years." And
SF News Rent Prices Dropping? According to yesterday's article in the Examiner, rent prices are dropping. Plummeting by "$200 citywide," says one broker. Fantastic news, right? Not according to blog de revolución BeyondChron, who thinks prices are still
SF News Entombed East Bay Body Identified Remember how Hassan Ben Ali committed suicide in front of Berkeley police last week? Then, after doing a search of Ali's Ashby Avenue apartment, the police found an entombed body at his residence?
SF News SF Rent Prices: Up, Up and Away You may want to squash those dreams over having your own studio is the TL. Lord knows we have. See, according to Curbed -- who has killed out Monday buzz, one that even
SF News Today's Protest: Save Rent Control Just so this protest isn't riddled with members of the progressive elite -- they always manage to turn the lives of the, ahem, disenfranchised into self-serving photo-ops, don't they? -- those of you
SF News Breaking News: SF Rents on the Rise Despite the fact that penetrating tower after penetrating tower continues to sprout up across SoMa, downtown, and Rincon Hill, San Francisco rent prices are still skyrocketing. According to SF Business Times, [a]sking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building Gets Pricier The historic Ferry Building -- home to stores devoted solely to hawking olive oil, cheese, fish eggs, mushrooms and the best Japanese food in the universe -- is raising its rents. Aw. And
misc NYC Mugging Leads to Safer SF Relocation? Festishizing that "authentic, old-school New York experience," Adam Fisher moved to NYC to frolic with hipsters, sing selections from Rent, or snap his fingers to the jazzy beats along with the other bohemian
SF News Day Around the Bay -- So it has come to this: Barry Manilow, Brian Boitano, AT&T Park, and ice. [Examiner] -- The fuzz busts cannabis-sweets fusion culinary artists. [Oakland Tribune] -- Arrested Berkeley Rent Board
SF News Oh No Chris Kavanagh!: Ed Jew Copycat It seems that he actually lived on 63rd Street in Oakland, where he was in the process of fighting his own eviction by new landlords, and in order to be on the board,
SF News Sixth Street (Between Mission and Market Streets) Closed Due To <del>Possible Bomb</del> Munitions Shell Threat Alarmists of SF: We just received an word via AlertSF that: 6th Street between Market and Mission closed to all traffic due to police activity. Do NOT call 911 for information regarding this
SF News Just Don't Read SFist While You're Driving The Merc is reporting that as of yesterday, Avis Rent A Car is offering Wi-Fi service with cars rented from its SFO location. It's $10.95 a day, which seems pricey, but we
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
