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Old 06-29-2016, 11:30 PM
 
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It sure makes for a sensationalized headline and has make national coverage...
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Old 07-01-2016, 04:15 AM
 
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This is why renting is bad and owning your own home is the way to go.
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Old 07-01-2016, 06:14 AM
 
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So let me get this straight. I could move to Frisco and shell out eight grand in monthly rent? And the added bonus being that I am surrounded by millions of strangers with all of their noise and waste? I must be crazy to think that I am living the good life in my own house on the edge of the country for less than a quarter the price of that apartment.
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Old 07-01-2016, 09:24 AM
 
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Yes...

But I just rented a two bedroom apartment to a school teacher at $1500 per month 20 minutes from San Francisco...

Not everyone wants to live in SF proper and there are plenty of alternatives
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Old 07-03-2016, 07:39 AM
 
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The fact that people would rather live like this than move into some isolated hickville tells you something!

Calling everything outside of a major metropolitan area like San Francisco some "isolated hickville" is short sighted.
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Old 07-03-2016, 08:07 AM
 
Location: Redwood City, CA
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Based on what some people have been commenting on other links about this story, it seems as if this guy never signed a lease with the landlord.

He was subleasing from the primary leasee, one of his roommates, and that person happened to move out.

So something else is going on here that we're not getting the full story.

My thinking is that this guy complaining refused to sign a lease because he only wanted to pay what he and his roommates were paying, $1800, so the landlords probably wanted to get rid of him.
It's a three bedroom apartment, according to another story. $8000 is about right for North Beach. The median rent in North Beach is about $6,850 but that doesn't take into account the size of the unit.

Hutchinson moved in six years ago with roommates. According to his claim, the apartment is in "deplorable" condition. (Yet he's fighting tooth and nail to stay there and the apartment can't be renovated while he's in residence...)

Hutchinson says the LL is claiming Hutchinson never signed a lease. Hutchinson says he did.

Apparently if he never signed a lease, rent control does not protect him.

Most renters are pretty sloppy about paperwork anyway. If Hutchinson could produce a signed lease I think he would have by now.
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