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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2800 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's so expensive to live in San Francisco, almost half of millennials want to leave

Real estate is crazy. California real estate is a special kind of crazy. San Francisco real estate is a special kind of California crazy.

Our house in suburban Seattle has more than doubled in value... since 2000. Our apartment in LA? Our landlord bought it in 2007. He was $150k underwater by 2009. When we moved out in 2013 he increased the rent $1000/mo and then sold it in 2015 to a $150k profit.





goobster  ·  2798 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Remember my house in Mill Valley? Sold it in 2001 for $1m. It's only worth $2.3m today. (According to Zillow.) I'd expected it to be twice that, honestly.