Apartment in San Francisco for $1400

You're not going to find a nice studio in a good area for that price. Get some roommates.

+1 roommates find some randoms on craigslist who are in your age range -- and industry too if u really care that much u can actually get a legit place if there's 3 people and 3 bedrooms, plus it will probably be already furnished with their shit whereas a studio will be completely empty

OK, since I can only pony up 1400, where can I find a studio? really don't wanna live with anyone.

Tenderloin.

The terderloin is like harlem, right? lots of poverty. are there areas that border(like 114st around columbia) that I can find a secure apartment at?

seriously, there's got to be other options

You can find some good places in North or South Bay for around 1400, but you will have to commute. Personally, I can't do it. I'd rather overpay and have a 5 minute commute. Life is too short to sit in traffic.

Just refreshed -- don't live in the tenderloin LOL

You can get some really nice places in safe areas outside the city. But of course, you will be out of the city.

For the record, I don't recommend living in the TL unless you like that sort of thing.

hi ravenous. can you tell me how much I'd have to pay to find a good studio in,say nob hill or the marina(or any nice place)

but crazyhorse is there

also why would u work in SF and not live in the city? sounds fun as hell. ruby skye gogo

Don't live in the Marina.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=nob+hill&srchType=A&minAsk…

thanks, buybuybuy. that was good. didn't even think of craigslist. i associate that place with serial killers. lol.

Maybe if you're looking for anonymous sex.

Craigslist has pretty much replaced newspaper classifieds entirely for housing.

thanks ravenous. this has been helpful

gotta find someone who has a rent-controlled apartment and take their place for the summer

I've started to look for apartments also, you certainly will end up spending 16-1800 min for a studio. Most one bdrms are going for a premium. I've been looking at 2's, and they start at about 2800 on the lowest end, unless you want to live in a shithole. You can look in SOMA also, but there isn't that much around the area, nice new bldg's tho.

westcoaster, this apartment cost thing didn't cross my mind when I was negotiating my salary. mad at myself.

Yeah, so depending on where you are coming from, SF could be as high as 50% more expensive on total cost of living than where you used to live (I calculated it once and it was >40% more expensive than where I moved from). It's not just the apartment, it's parking (easily $200 a month and many apartments don't include parking as standard), food costs, entertainment, ridiculous bridge tolls if you leave the city, -- everything. It's just expensive as hell here, and that doesn't even include the parasitic income tax in California. It's remarkable the state still managed to go functionally bankrupt.

I'm less familiar with studios, but a decent one bedroom in a good neighborhood might go for $2,000 to $2,500 a month which is unreal. You can do it for a lot less if you have roommates obviously. Buying isn't necessarily better either. I started looking at condos in mid-2009 hoping to find some bombed out prices and was shocked to see 500 sq ft studios in good neighborhoods (Pac Heights) going for the ask price of $300K (HOLY SHIT that's $600 / sq ft). It's amazing how you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars and still feel relatively poor in this city after getting gouged at multiple levels.

Anyway, that's my rant, would love to move somewhere else that isn't as shitty. Hope you like it more than I do.

lol. salary.com told me that the cost of living is lower in SF. moving from Manhattan.

did u really need salary.com to tell you that

maybe i'm wrong but it seems that there are more options in New York as a whole for 1400 apartments in decent places than SF. again, i'm not sure because i've spent just 20hours in san francisco. for less than 1400 i had a great place on the upper west side around Columbia Univ. great location, renovated plumbing, nice kitchen.

Unless the responses are skewed, it seems i won't get a good place like this anywhere in the City of San Francisco.

if u want a studio or 1br to yourself then you are probably correct sir (seems lonely tho :{ )

Yeah, SF real estate never really corrects the way other markets do. There isn't that much land, and there are less than 100 developable lots in SF (I read that anyway) with tough zoning restrictions. Since a lot of people want to live here, there is a permanent structural imbalance in supply vs. demand. It's brutal.

I sort of agree with Jack, but you could do it for a lot less than 175K, you just wouldn't do it the way you want to do it. I have friends that make 75K all in who live in the city (non-finance professionals). They have roommates (one guy pays $800 a month for a room in a house), live in less good neighborhoods, and don't drive. Not having a car in SF is an enormous money saver. But yeah, you can make 200K in this city and feel middle class without any problem, which is a ridiculous thing to say, but is ultimately true.