SF News Report: Renters Moving To Bay Area Make More Than Renters Already Here Finding a place to rent in the Bay Area is notoriously tricky — anything even remotely affordable seems to get snapped up in the blink of an eye, and it can feel as if
SF News Startup Scrapes Tenants' Private Social Media Accounts For Potential Landlords' Use Finding an apartment in San Francisco is already a nightmare for many, but one startup is out to make it even harder. The Washington Post reports that a British startup is promising to
SF News New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Responds To 'The Quad,' San Francisco's Newest Fake Neighborhood It's been over a week since SFist (and Curbed) brought the Quad to your attention. The Quad, god save us all, was the brainchild of Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail, and it's not a
SF News 33 Percent Of San Franciscans Think S.F. Is Getting Worse, Says Dubious Poll According to the annual CityBeat poll conducted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, a full third of San Franciscans think the quality of life in the city is on the decline. The
SF News Law Firm Putting On Another Event To Better Teach Landlords How To Evict Here we go again. The Law Offices of Bornstein & Bornstein and Bay Property Group have invited you to learn the art of kicking out tenants. There's money to be made and those
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Dolores: Insane New Home Redefines 'Median Rent' In Noe Valley, where home prices are soaring, some merry pranksters are taking the term "Median Rent" literally with this cozy-looking statement that popped up in the middle of Dolores Street. Frankly, we're
SF News After Tragic Fire Ousts Residents, Lower Haight 1-Bedrooms Go For $4K In September 27, 2011, a massive fire broke out at 493 Haight Street, gutting a Walgreens and several businesses and driving residents of the upstairs apartments from their homes. But the fire wasn't
SF News Map: Number Of Minimum Wage Jobs Required To Rent In S.F. The S.F. Department of Public Health released a map that shows just how many full-time minimum wage jobs you'd need to rent a 2BR in San Francisco at fair market rates (FMR)
SF News New S.F. Rental Price Map Soaked In The Blood Of Low-Income Renters Set to turn your smile upside down, Trulia just unleashed a new interactive map that shows their median rental price info collected over the last year. And what a map it is. San
Arts & Entertainment So There's An Airbnb for Boats Now In inevitable startup news, that one guy who was telling you that his idea is "like Airbnb, but for boats!" got funded. The result is Boatbound, "the first fully insured 'pier-to-pier' boat rental
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.
SF News Evil SoMa Landlords Kip and Nicole Macy Finally in Jail Again Maybe you think your landlord's awful because they raise the rent every year and never got around to fixing your shower. Well, listen here: It could be worse. Some of you may recall
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
SF News Map: Average Rent For 1BR In San Francisco By Neighborhood Were you having a good week? Too bad. We're here to shed some light on the housing situation in San Francisco. And it's brutal. For us, anyway. You too, we can only assume.
Arts & Entertainment Today In Jarring Craigslist Rental Ads: $1,000 For 80 Square Feet In Bro Pad Further proof that the Mission needs an abortion: this Craigslist ad seeks a roommate to pay a whopping $1,000 for an 80-square-foot room inside an apartment with four other "grown-ass men" working
Arts & Entertainment Note From A Capp Street Eviction Party Uptown Almanac's Kevin Montgomery attended his first eviction party last week. Some of you might recall the bratty eviction parties from the days of yore (or as recently as 2010) where entitled twentysomethings
SF News Man Clubs Roommate With Hammer Mike Aldax, our favorite crime reporter, details a roommate living situation gone awry. Early this morning, a 47-year-old woman was clubbed with a hammer by her roommate on the 100 block of Mission.
SF News Newsom's Eviction Law Stands by Amy Crocker Mayor Gavin's Newsom veto of an eviction law will stand after the Board of Supervisor's came up one vote shy of overturning. The law would have kept landlords from evicting
SF News Evil Landlords Arrested for Tenant Abuse Software engineer Kip Macy, 33, and real estate agent Nicole Macy, 32, were arrested the other day for "waging a war of terror"on their tenants occupying their six-unit, three-story SOMA house. It
