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I use that 24 Hour Fitness as my locker during comic-con. Exactly like how someone uses a locker in high school.
I just looked up how close the 24 hour fitness your referring to. It's not to far from the Ralph's! I wouldn't mind using my car and shower at the 24, however my wife would hate me for it. So I'll stick to selling my kidney in order to pay for a hotel for CC.
Out of curiosity, what does the average kidney sale for these days? I have my sons graduation party, college tuition and the move to said college this summer. So, I might need to keep this option as a back up plan my own self
According to this article, it's $262,000.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Respectfully, let’s not turn this forum into political or social justice debate on the housing issue. The options to sleep in your car and using the showers at 24 Hour Fitness are available for those without a hotel room and leave it there. I would not recommend it as sleeping in your car is not safe and the showers at the gym is disgusting.
Tell me about it. 20 years ago, the owner of a house I was renting offered to sell it to me for $200,000. That house is worth between $1.5M to $2M now. Even back then, for $200K it was cheap. The problem was, I hated that house. That's the rub about housing in the bay. If it was expensive and nice, then maybe. It's not. It's expensive and trash. That house I was renting would have been a tear down in most parts of the country. It was cheaply built to begin with, it was one of those post WWII put it up quick houses. The slab was cracked with leaky pipes. The carpet was perpetually wet. The windows only kind of kept out the wind. I thought the furnace would explode every time it turned on. Flames would shoot out of the vents. I had to keep the cap off of the sewer pipe outside since it would clog all the time because the pipe was cracked and roots had grown into it. I made the mistake of putting the cap on when I first moved in. That lead to a backup flooding the house. The landlord yelled at me and told me to not put the cap on. The neighborhood was not good. The barking dogs and loud music killed any thoughts of buying it for me. I drive by it every once in a while when I'm back up north. It looks exactly the same as the day I left. So does the neighborhood. But it's in the heart of the Silicon Valley. A few minutes from Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft or Cisco. Location. Location. Location. That's why it can sell for that much.I've seen some pretty trashy apartments in San Francisco. One sticks out. It had a ragged basketball size hole in the wall between the living room and bedroom. I asked the landlord if he was going to fix it before renting it. He said no. He didn't have to. He didn't. 5 minutes into the open house, he already had a stack of applicants.
Oh man, can I relate with this. I lived in SF for four years going to school and the housing sitch was so awful. I saw one apartment with no windows--the only natural light came from a skylight covered in bird excrement. It felt like the pit the Silence of the Lambs girl had to stay in.Another time I saw an apartment in, what I assumed would be a converted garage. NOPE. The bed was right next to the car. The guy living there was like, "well, if you're lying on your bed and you need fresh air..." and then hit the garage door opener and the door rolled up.