2y ago

"1 bed 1 bath" is a generous description for a garage

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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.
- The rate of increase is mind blowing. I used to rent a 1br luxury apartment for $1100 back in 2016.
  
  Good thing wages are also inflating to keep up with these ridiculous price increases. Oh, wait...
  
  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.
  
  Man my fucking mortgage is only a couple hundred higher
- 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.
  
  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!
- 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).
  
  I might have to commit a crime in Switzerland. Is criminal tourism such a thing?
  
  This varies widely across the US. Some areas are like this while others have booming economies with plenty of housing. It's a big place.
  
  It's always good to have a backup plan.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.

That's the cost of my mortgage, and I have a 6 bedroom house.
- How is Wyoming this time of year?
  
  It's actually super pretty. Give me a stable internet connection and I could live in the back woods of Wyoming happily.
- It looks like the homeowner is trying to get a renter to pay theirs.
  
  Depending on where it's located, this could be considered a bargain. I've seen basement closets for $700+/month that didn't have windows or a kitchen.
  EDIT: I should add that this wasn't in a large city. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1042-Winthrop-St-BASEMENT-Brooklyn-NY-11212/2061307902_zpid/ is an example of $1,200/month in NYC.
- I pay almost $2000 a month for a 600-square foot one-bedroom apartment.
  Wish I'd bought a house ten years ago.
  
  The best time to buy a house was 10 years ago. The second best time is never, because corporations own them all now.
  
  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.
- 5 bedrooms here. I pay $200 less. Buying at the right time lottery.
  
  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!
- Damn really? I assume you've been there awhile?
  
  Yeah. No way I could purchase the house I live in now if I had to buy it today.
  
  Yeah, our mortgage is decent and we're still paying around $950 for a 3-bedroom.
- It's cheaper than the co-op dues (so taxes + maintenance) that I pay for my 1-bedroom.

This kicks ass , but price range doesn't
- 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
  
  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

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.
- It says "1 bed" not "1 BR" lol.
  
  True, though usually they mean the sane thing in listings.

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.

It has a garage!
- Unless you can drive the bed, I don't think it's gonna serve very well as a garage.
  
  Totally missed opportunity for a Murphy bed. You could put it up and have room to park.
  
  you could store a Fisher Price car, that counts right?
  
  The garage seems perfect for getting a motorcycle in and out of the house, although the grime from the tires might be a problem...
  
  Now I want to watch Bedknobs & Broomsticks again.

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.
- I fondly remember renting a 5BR house in the early '90s for $500/mo (total) with four other dudes.
- Do you still live in that 1 bedroom apartment?
  
  Lol no.

Easy to move in with such a large door
- 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.
  
  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

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

I still haven't found the bath... Probably outside
- I was guessing behind the door with glass slats on the right, and all it has in there is a toilet.
  
  Come out of the bathroom only in your skivvies to find the landlord decided to open the garage.
  Ah, no thank you.

Landlords are garbage.

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.
- Looks like it would be freezing in winter though.
  
  Don't worry, my gaming laptop spews enough heat to keep me warm! /s
  
  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.

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"

$1,200 Christ on a bike the audacity hahaha that's worth like $300 MAX

I pay 3k for my place... This seems generous.
We, are so fucked, everyone.

Lots of people finish out garages, put a cheap wall on the outside, and don’t remove the garage door inside for some reason. I’ve seen it on a few houses and apartments in my city as well
- My guess is to retain value for when they sell. Take out the cheap wall covering the door and you have a house with a garage again, instead of a house with a weird apartment the new buyer might not want.
- This one has a loft! Sort of.
- I stayed at an Airbnb like this and was fine with it. I wouldn't want to rent it, but for what I needed it for and the price it was perfect.

I’d be stunned if this was legal.
- Which part? The only thing I don't see from a legal standpoint is a smoke detector. The bathroom will need to have a functional vent to the outside as well.
  
  I’m thinking that a garage door instead of an actual wall would be some sort of code violation.

I believe this is called a Bachelor

This would be a pretty cool AirBnB. That price is outrageous though.

"We call that the guest house."

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