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There is a huge market (i.e., base of buyers) for affordable housing for people who just want safe, private, convenient shelter. Maybe there's a surplus of lux
by gargarplex 9y ago
There is a huge market (i.e., base of buyers) for affordable housing for people who just want safe, private, convenient shelter. Maybe there's a surplus of luxury housing in SF, but I think a luxury building is an amenity that needlessly adds to the cost.
Incidentally, I was thinking about opening a hacker founder community somewhere affordable, like Detroit. But Detroit is cold.
- chris11 9y agoThen again, there are some amenities I'd like if I'm paying SF rent. For instance, I was recently in SF and looked in into a one-bedroom non-luxury apartment that I could easily have afforded back home. It was 3k a month and didn't even have an in unit washer and dryer.
- gargarplex 9y agoI can't do laundry ever again. I have fully bought into wash and fold. It's a total no brainer. For $25 I just got an entire hamper worth of mixed laundry washed and folded for me. The time and economics make it totally worth it. I would definitely want to offer wash and fold service. Privacy is important. I don't know that an "upholstered partition" (http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5a501548c32ae61e008b4d65-1874/screen%20shot%202018-01-05%20at%2041233%20pm.png http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5a501548c32ae61e008...), which honestly reminds me of the doors of American bathroom stalls, offers enough of a sense of privacy, especially because of sound.
- lorenzq 9y agoIf you have a salaried job how do you justify spending that money when you can’t earn more money outside of your salary?
- gargarplex 9y agoI don't have a salaried job currently. I have a software consulting business, link in profile.