• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    I literally pay $100 more to live in a much shittier garage than this…

    Rent is getting absolutely disgusting. I was JUST getting a promotion that would allow me to afford a house and then COVID fucked literally everything… The WFH movement started in full swing and bye bye affordable housing… Now I’m permanently locked out of the housing market as a blue collar piece of shit.

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        We rented a sizable 2-bedroom apartment in a good area of North Hollywood, CA’s arts district for $1200 a month 10 years ago. I don’t even want to know how much it’s going for now.

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          About 15 years ago, we had 1200 sq ft apartment with a nice deck that overlooked some woods and ponds at the bottom of the hill. It was $800 a month and we afforded it just fine. Now, I make almost double what I made then, and we live in a 900 sq ft apartment that stares down into a parking lot, has creaky floors, barely functioning appliances, and we pay $2000. The old apartment was $5.2k a month last time I checked (early 2022).

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          My cousin has a rent-controlled studio apartment in LA that he pays something like $900 a month for. I didn’t even know rent control was a thing anywhere in LA but apparently it is and his rent can only go up 2% or so a year. The only negative is that he’s basically stuck in this little place for the rest of his life.

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      Same here, me and my GF make enough money now to afford housing 3 years ago, but now we’re priced out of even renting! it’s bullshit.

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        It’s so gross that we literally need 2 incomes, sometimes more just to afford a place to sleep… I’m perpetually single so I need to do it all solo. Good luck I hope you guys find something soon!

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      In Switzerland I could kill someone and have a better living arrangement than in this picture (look up swiss prisons)

      I pay 1k for roughly 740 square feet / 69 m2. Covid didn’t change anything. It’s wild that things can be so vastly different for two similary rich countries (I kinda assume the post is in the USA).

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      I’m confused. The WFH movement should be flushing people AWAY from city centers, which should mean less pressure in already expensive areas. That’s something that should make affordable housing more common.

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        Those people go move to the small towns with limited housing, and jack up the prices there. Happened in Ontario, houses are passing a million dollars over an hour away from Toronto, when those houses used to go in the low hundred thousands.

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          Can confirm, Hamiltonian here who witnessed the influx of Torontonians fleeing the big city and taking up our suburbs.

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        It’s the opposite for everyone who doesn’t live in a city. Long Island NY is already expensive on a regular day, all the people leaving NYC for the suburbs drove prices through the roof. It’s a similar story in places outside of cities all over the country.

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            I’m not sure I want to have anything to do with a service Musk is involved in.

            Don’t get me wrong, we have Starlink as a backup circuit at the office and the speeds are fantastic, but I wouldn’t base my relocation on it.

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          I’ve seen basement closets for $700+/month that didn’t have windows or a kitchen.

          Huh. Fun fact, the International Building Code is a “model code” that’s adopted as the basis for building code by most jurisdictions in the USA. Meaning if you’re in the USA it’s more likely-than-not code where you live.

          Another fun fact: there are egress requirements for basement that contain “sleeping rooms” (R310.1). Essentially, you need a minimum 1 normal means of egress and 1 emergency escape and rescue opening unless the building is equipped with an automatic sprinkler system – and your local code might have even stricter requirements.

          This is a disturbingly common code violation by people trying to rent out their basement. It would be a real shame if someone were to read up on their local code and report suspected illegal basement conversions to local code enforcement or the fire inspector.

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            I’m sure it wasn’t up to code, but in a dense student population with high rent costs, I’m sure a student would rent it and disregard the violations.

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          I once paid $600 for a single room in someone else’s house. This shit really is getting out of control.

          Now I’m at $1340 for a garage… As the other person said, we’re literally paying their mortgage, but can’t afford our own… Thanks COVID! Not only did it kill tons of people, it killed the housing market too.

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            COVID didn’t do shit. Greedy landlords and conglomerates killed the housing market.

            And they’re over the moon that you’re blaming COVID for it and not them.

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        The best time to buy a house was 10 years ago. The second best time is never, because corporations own them all now.

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        I bought mine about 12 years ago, which was a very good time to buy a house. I wouldn’t be able to afford my own house if I had to buy it today.

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        Yeah. I didn’t realize it was a good time to buy, I just bought when the timing was right for me. I have no idea how or if other people will get this kind of opportunity for home ownership again. Here’s to keeping up the house and property to give to my kids as inheritance. Cheers!

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      Lol right? I would love to be able to open up one of my walls on a nice day. But yeah, fuck that price for a garage

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        I’d be worried about insulation (really worried), but otherwise this would be fantastic as a bachelor pad if it were about a third of the price.

        As it stands, what the fuck

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          Agreed. Seconded on the what the fuck and the insulation issues. This should be a $300 apartment for desperate people. Instead, it’s a landlord exploiting people and exacerbating the housing crisis for profit. Very landlord-y.

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    Unless there’s more shown than in that photo, that’s a not a 1 BR, that’s a studio. And a crappy and overpriced one at that.

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    It’s very easy to replace a garage door with a wall and a regular door. Unless you don’t want people to know about your illegal apartment scheme.

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    Landlords are hot garbage.

    I remember my 1 bedroom apartment I paid 400 a month on in the early aughts fondly. My rent is almost 2K now.

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      It only occasionally opens by itself in the night, and not always when a car drives by.

      And don’t worry about the draft in winter.

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        Motor is missing and I don’t see a chain for one above that fake ceiling, that door isn’t operational… idk why they didn’t take it out other than not wanting to do a proper wall

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          These doors can be opened manually right? At least, here in the Netherlands they can be.

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            Should be. It still has a wound torsion spring on top. Assuming that loft ceiling thing isn’t in the way

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    Landlords provide housing the same way that ticket scalpers provide concert tickets

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    If this was half the price, I’d be thrilled with a place like this. If it has a bathroom and a Washer/Dryer, it has everything I need and nothing I don’t.

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          My pc used to be on the floor. It was really nice to keep my toes warm while I gamed in the winter by resting them on the tower. Miss those days.

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        I don’t know where this one is but the folks I know who lived in a garage were in southern California and they never needed anything more than a little electric space heater.

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    We’re about 5 mins away from these landlords adding painted stencils to the walls of these units in the “Live, Laugh, Love” font that just say, “Fuck You, Peasant”