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.
I would spend my nights thinking about one of the door springs suddenly breaking.
Decapitated by a garage door spring you say? Terrible news.
I pay 3k for my place… This seems generous.
We, are so fucked, everyone.
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.
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.
Man my fucking mortgage is only a couple hundred higher
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.
My cousin has a rent-controlled studio apartment in LA that he pays something like $900 a month for. I didn’t even know rent control was a thing anywhere in LA but apparently it is and his rent can only go up 2% or so a year. The only negative is that he’s basically stuck in this little place for the rest of his life.
They probably renovated to split it into 2 tiny apartments that they rent for double or triple the price each.
About 15 years ago, we had 1200 sq ft apartment with a nice deck that overlooked some woods and ponds at the bottom of the hill. It was $800 a month and we afforded it just fine. Now, I make almost double what I made then, and we live in a 900 sq ft apartment that stares down into a parking lot, has creaky floors, barely functioning appliances, and we pay $2000. The old apartment was $5.2k a month last time I checked (early 2022).
Where was this?
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.
Can confirm, Hamiltonian here who witnessed the influx of Torontonians fleeing the big city and taking up our suburbs.
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.
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?
Blaze that trail!
It’s always good to have a backup plan.
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.
Where are these magical areas?
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!
Gas station attendants could afford houses while their wives stayed at home and did the housework. That’s how ridiculous it’s gotten.
With kids!
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.
“We call that the guest house.”
Landlords provide housing the same way that ticket scalpers provide concert tickets
It has a garage!
Unless you can drive the bed, I don’t think it’s gonna serve very well as a garage.
Now I want to watch Bedknobs & Broomsticks again.
Totally missed opportunity for a Murphy bed. You could put it up and have room to park.
park… for when you’re home… to sleep?
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…
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”
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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
These doors can be opened manually right? At least, here in the Netherlands they can be.
Should be. It still has a wound torsion spring on top. Assuming that loft ceiling thing isn’t in the way
Dang, then it’s only the local body builders that visit occasionally.
$1,200 Christ on a bike the audacity hahaha that’s worth like $300 MAX
Landlords are garbage.
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.
Do you still live in that 1 bedroom apartment?
Lol no.
Then your current rent doesn’t have much to do with the rent you paid back then unless you’re renting an extremely similar apartment.
I fondly remember renting a 5BR house in the early '90s for $500/mo (total) with four other dudes.
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
My pc used to be on the floor. It was really nice to keep my toes warm while I gamed in the winter by resting them on the tower. Miss those days.
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.
