"a reconfigured bathroom and the addition of a washer/drier." Only 160 square feet and you install a washer/drier instead of in-building laundry or a laundromat up the street? That's not really the epitome of "sustainable" / "urban infill" either.
"It’s a regulatory thicket in San Francisco." Yes. It's true. We suck.
I was wondering about this pricing. I pay the same amount for a 850 square foot apartment in Upper East Side Manhattan (83rd and 1st so a 10 minute walk from the 4/5/6 but still...). I started reading with the thought "I'd pay ~$800 for that if it was decently located".
I split an apartment in Cole Valley SF in 2006-7 and think we were at ~$1800 for a two bedroom but it was a pretty crappy apartment for the area.
But, prices are up >15% since you were here. You can thank the explosion in population of and increased income of the demographic that reads this very site.
But you can still get a good 2BR in the Inner Sunset or the Inner Richmond / north of the Panhandle (near USF) for the low-to-mid $2000s, and it will easily be five times as big as this place. You can do even better in the outer mission or Ocean View / Taraval (near CCSF), and quite fine in the southwestern corner by the main UCSF campus. Mission Bay students have it a little harder if they're not in on-campus housing - perhaps somewhere in the Bayview? Of course, Mission Bay campus is a short walk from the Caltrain depot, as well, and the transfer to a streetcar from BART is doable.
I still suspect that apartment is for PARTYING PARTYING every night and living the Bohemian lifestyle where you're mostly in your place to sleep and occasionally study. Their parents are paying for it. The price premium is because "we can easily sell this to the rich parents who are only in town a short period of time".
Pretty sure one of the 86th street entrances is coming up on my block because they dug a ~40 foot deep hole and have a giant white truss sitting on my corner.
>Or for any modern city dweller for whom home need not mean much more than where you wake up and go to sleep.
Unless it costs less, it'd be just as easy to use a regular sized wake-up-and-go-to-sleep place, wouldn't it? I'm just baffled.
Even for a carbon-nuetral home? Eco-homes are pretty expensive usually.