"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
09/14/2018 at 01:10 • Filed to: None
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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
09/14/2018 at 01:10 • Filed to: None | 0
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This is the place I moved out of 6 years ago, built around 1948 . Thanks to rent control, I was paying $1359/mo. when market rates for the unit were between $2500 and $2600/mo. I would have been paying less, but for a few years I moved out of the 2 bd and moved to the 1 bd across the hall then back.
I visited the place last week and I see that they did add air conditioning (not really needed when year ‘round temp control could be easily handled by opening or closing a couple of windows - the joys of living a couple of miles from the coast ). There are probably fancier cabinets and appliances as well, but still...
$4,595 and you still have to live with jets landing day and night, high crime, terrible parking, massive homeless encampments, etc. Yeah, good luck with that. All of a sudden Silicon Valley rents start to look semi-reasonable. So, unless I become insanely wealthy all of a sudden I can’t see myself moving back to Los Angeles.
AestheticsInMotion
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/14/2018 at 02:13 |
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So does everybody just live in a home with like 4 or 5 other guys? That's what I've gotten from the friends in that area, but that's a somewhat small sample size
LongbowMkII
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/14/2018 at 02:16 |
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What’s the address? My $975 studio with downtown (2) Parkin g is certainly a better value. Damn. I couldn’t I mange paying 4600/mo
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> LongbowMkII
09/14/2018 at 02:59 |
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It’s in Westchester, on the approach path to LAX, off Belford Ave.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> AestheticsInMotion
09/14/2018 at 03:08 |
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When I worked at LAX most of my coworkers lived a few miles away in the s eedier areas of Compton and Inglewood. I had rent control so I could live close to work despite taking a massive pay cut. 19 years in the same building kept rent more-or-less in check.
One coworker bought a new house some 90 miles from work, way out in the desert. I couldn’t imagine commuting all that way in LA traffic just to come to work and empty airplane toilets all day, but I guess the pay differential for doing that job allowed him to buy the house.
NKato
> AestheticsInMotion
09/14/2018 at 04:20 |
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It has increasingly become common for houses to be rented out to groups now. Started as a thing for college students, and has persisted after graduation after they realized the market got deep dicked for all the wrong reasons.
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/14/2018 at 08:38 |
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Hahahahahahhahhaha. Good god, that’s just crazy. About 4x my mortgage each month.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
09/16/2018 at 19:53 |
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IIRC my buddy is paying about $2750 for 500 SF in Redwood City. I t’s not a dump, right downtown. My guess is his pay is $150k+.