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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The rate of increase is mind blowing. I used to rent a 1br luxury apartment for $1100 back in 2016.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Good thing wages are also inflating to keep up with these ridiculous price increases. Oh, wait...

[–] FlyingSquid 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

They probably renovated to split it into 2 tiny apartments that they rent for double or triple the price each.

[–] goomby69 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] FlyingSquid 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gas station attendants could afford houses while their wives stayed at home and did the housework. That's how ridiculous it's gotten.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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).

[–] prayer 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might have to commit a crime in Switzerland. Is criminal tourism such a thing?

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[–] Lev_Astov 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] DrQuint 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's the cost of my mortgage, and I have a 6 bedroom house.

[–] Ghostalmedia 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is Wyoming this time of year?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's actually super pretty. Give me a stable internet connection and I could live in the back woods of Wyoming happily.

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[–] onionbaggage 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

5 bedrooms here. I pay $200 less. Buying at the right time lottery.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This kicks ass , but price range doesn't

[–] Polydextrous 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] MrSlicer 28 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unless you can drive the bed, I don't think it's gonna serve very well as a garage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally missed opportunity for a Murphy bed. You could put it up and have room to park.

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[–] MarsRT 7 points 1 year ago

you could store a Fisher Price car, that counts right?

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 8 points 1 year ago

I fondly remember renting a 5BR house in the early '90s for $500/mo (total) with four other dudes.

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[–] Late2TheParty 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy to move in with such a large door

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] JJROKCZ 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These doors can be opened manually right? At least, here in the Netherlands they can be.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still haven't found the bath... Probably outside

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was guessing behind the door with glass slats on the right, and all it has in there is a toilet.

[–] azdood85 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come out of the bathroom only in your skivvies to find the landlord decided to open the garage.

Ah, no thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Snapz 8 points 1 year ago

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"

[–] JJROKCZ 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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[–] souma 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I pay 3k for my place... This seems generous.

We, are so fucked, everyone.

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