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High security deposits can make Bay Area rent impossible

• jb1991 4y ago
  > In December, mere days before I began my house hunt, Assembly Member Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, introduced legislation that would limit security deposits to no more than one month’s rent. This reforms a decades-old state threshold that permits landlords to charge tenants security deposits that amount to two months’ rent.
• quantified 4y ago
  You have 3 cats? $700 each. Watch for the rest of the country's landlords to start shifting things upward now that there's a bit more publicity as to what they might get away with.
  • jb1991 4y ago
    To be honest, cats can do quite a lot of damage and landlords have no idea of knowing what the likelihood of that is. And once a cat starts peeing in your house, that smell is almost impossible to get rid of, so I can see an owner being well motivated to guard against it. I actually live in a place right now where pets of any kind are not allowed.