LOL. As one of the delusional fools trying to get into one of these spots for 6 months before giving up and going to Oakland, GOOD LUCK EVEN GETTING THE DAMN PLACE. at a minimum: -Have 6 months of paycheck stubs -at least 2 months of rent deposit (NOT including the first month's rent) -have the landlord/roommates (not even like, but) love you -Don't have a pet Have all this the day you go for an interview, stand around with 20 other people all equally vying for the place with better stories than yours, bring some damn baked goods, and you probably still don't get the spot. If you live in SF, you know this already, don' play. Your $800 a month would drive some people to murder.
Yes. Which is all of SF all of the damn time right now. I was doing this from Jan-August. I made no mistakes. Still moved to Oakland. You're arguing the wrong thing here. You found a cheap spot, you got lucky, good on you this doesn't work out for most other people. You're also touching on a thing that is a hella sensitive issue for a lot of people in the bay nowadays, and being rather obtuse about it, I might add.The biggest mistake people make is trying to rent when everyone else is as well.
I don't know what everyone else is doing wrong then, because my place certainly wasn't an outlier in my search. It was the best deal I found, which is why I took it, but there were plenty of other, even cheaper units I was looking at. Had I not gotten the place I did, I'm sure I would have wound up in one of the other, equally reasonably priced places I was looking at.