in my last video i shared with you my victorian apartment tour in san francisco and what $4,000
can get you. in today's video we're going to go over some of the apartments that
we decided against and why we didn't like them and some rental tips for first-timers or 10th timer
seasoned professionals like him i've actually never gone apartment hunting here before just
because my family lives here in san francisco and ever since i graduated from college i ended
up just moving back into my parents home just to save money but now that i'm 27 i'm feeling
really excited to have my own space so today i get to take you guys along with me bella can't
come because guess what dogs aren't allowed the very first apartment is in glen park and it's a
one bedroom and it's on the corner of a street and this one is in glen park which is a little
bit south of the city it's located in a multi-unit building on the second floor with one bed and one
bath the landlord still had furniture scattered throughout the apartment and the layout was pretty
straightforward with the kitchen on the right living room and a recently remodeled bathroom
and bedroom facing the street this unit costs 2800 per month with street parking only and this
is considered more affordable for the bay area and the average in this neighborhood as of 2021 is 2
400 for one bedroom and an older unit like the unit was fine but around it not as good making
it tricky nothing very unique about the apartment itself and i remember we were trying to negotiate
parking with her and she said an extra two or three hundred next we drove to twin peaks a mainly
residential neighborhood with great views of the city it's located centrally which makes this an
ideal location for commuters remember distinctly just looking at the view and thinking wow i feel
like i've made it i can see all of downtown you can see salesforce tourists across the street
there was a weird layout it was almost like a loft like there wasn't really a
bedroom it was just like a downstairs and then upstairs and it had a tiny fireplace and then
you can enter the unit from either upstairs or downstairs 3200 is still considered the average
price for a two-bedroom unit in twin peaks again similar to the the first one like on a big street
but this one there's nowhere to walk to perched up above the city with nowhere to go but it
would be like loud for the person on the other side like say i was upstairs taking a meeting
and you're trying to film downstairs there's no sound barrier overall we felt this unit lacked
privacy with no door separating the rooms and the older building making the price not worth it
after the first two viewings we were feeling pretty exhausted and grabbed a coffee and
continued our apartment search the third apartment that we checked out was in the mission district
yeah you entered right off of mission street and some like random unmarked door
which was different i hadn't seen a place like that before let's see your apple snacks up
yeah look how skinny this one is
struggling she said to the right made it to our next viewing and wow this is so tiny
this is what 2900 will get you in san
look how francisco this is it's like it looks like a studio but it's not and it has a very
new kitchen seems to be missing a fridge i don't know where it is it's a tiny fridge too check
out check out the amazing view too nice somehow i was still impressed by this place i thought
i could definitely make this work the third apartment we checked out was on the southern end
of mission street this neighborhood is constantly evolving with hipster restaurants bars and vibrant
murals currently the average for one bedroom has dropped down to 2 400 for a space similar to this
yeah but look at this closet it's huge
can you imagine all the shoes i would put here here is the bedroom
yeah be fine for one person like a big studio more or less but
yeah too small yeah can you imagine moving here and then having to use
this really tiny little staircase and go all the way up with your furniture
moving on to the portola district which i don't think a lot of people talk about
because it's not as popular and more in the southern part of san francisco
the portola district is known as the garden district with mostly single-family detached
homes it's definitely on the quieter end but an area with more affordable housing
we checked out a two-bedroom house so it was on the second floor of a house trying
to remember there was two units that we looked down there two nice units all brand new renovated
quieter street had a garage and then that huge patio on the upper unit which was really nice
i mean if you're willing to commute to work and you have a family and you just want that extra
space and you don't really care about where you live i would have totally picked that spot it
had such good lighting and it's really close to the freeway yeah but like i didn't have a car at
the time and i was commuting to work on the bus there's no buses nearby i would have added like
probably 15 minutes each way lastly we checked out an apartment in pack heights in an older unit
this was 3 400 for one bedroom with no parking and we just felt like it wasn't the right fit
now let's talk about some of the things you should look out for when you're apartment hunting in san
francisco the first thing is the weird and funky layouts when you're looking at the pictures it
might not give you a good understanding of the layout because they can be like converted houses
like it used to be a full house that they split into two apartments or something like that so i
always recommend like going in person on ones that you're maybe like borderline on because it could
have a good layout that wasn't well illustrated in the photos or a really weird layout that might
have looked great like maybe the kitchen looked great but then you realize there's this like
weird uh living room or like bedroom that's in the living room another thing to watch out for is
the noise you might be on the first floor or the second floor of an apartment and you might have
really loud neighbors the houses are generally older it can be very noisy from the single pane
windows floors a lot of time are original which is nice because then you get like the cool original
floors but they can be kind of creaky so if you're down below on like a lower unit
try to get a sense of if you can tell if above you're gonna have a lot of stompers or not
yeah whenever i was apartment hunting in sf places would go like within the day that they were listed
or within a few days like when we were looking you were sometimes ready to be like oh i'm ready for
this one or like let's sign on this one i was like no let's see more there could be more if you're
not sure where to start in your apartment hunting in san francisco i wanted to share with you some
of my favorite neighborhoods so on the top of my list has to be the marina district i also love
japan town because it's very central and then further south is the mission district if you're
looking at places make sure you're really diligent about the location that you're searching in
because like when we were looking at places you might find a really good spot but it ends up like
it's too far like too far that you would want to go and then you waste your time either like going
to see that place or just looking at places that would never work for all the time that
i lived there before we moved in i was always with roommates it's to me it doesn't make sense to not
with roommates they have so much money and then you get some built-in friends hopefully so another
thing you should watch out for is the lease term so for some apartments after your lease ends
it might renew but then other ones might go month to month keeping everybody in one place
for a long period of time can be challenging if some of the people want to move out you
end up having to move places it's a lot easier i hope you guys enjoyed apartment hunting with
us and if you have any other questions leave them down below be sure to watch our previous
victorian apartment tour and check out my series on tick tock i'll see you next time
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