sounds like where i'm living. rent became insanely inflated very quickly due to indians/pakis moving here for work, midwest bumfuck people being relocated for work, and chinese buying every bit of property they can get their hands on in order to take advantage of this. most of these peoples' rents are partially or fully paid by the companies they're working for so they don't care if they're getting ripped off, nor do the companies because the state subsidizes it in tax writeoffs. section 8 housing for people who make over 100k a year in essence.

chinaman bought everything here because they could rip off all the pakis and indians. same as any other place that's had a surge of paki/indian immigrants in the past decade, the chinese follow them buying up property. rent goes up 15-20% a year and it's now impossible to rent from anything but a chinaman or a leasing agency. they're all crooks who convert their homes into 10 bedroom apartments and illegally sublet them on craigslist. first+last month's rent isn't a thing anymore, it costs at least $10,000 to move into any house and most of it is nonrefundable. they never fix anything and if you're dumb enough to rent from one you'll probably end up having to sue them at some point. also none of them will rent to you if you have pets, ever.

i'm going to sound like a racist piece of shit but pretty much everyone here knows it's true. even the blue haired sjw bernie bois here know all the chinamen are money grubbing pieces of shit, if they've lived here longer than a few years.

rent still has plenty of room to continue to bubble and get insane, but the shitty part is that you literally can not rent from a private owner who's not chinese anymore. it's not an option, doesn't exist. i don't mean chinese the race, i mean an actual chinese citizen living in china.

also fuck paki 5am parking lot parties on week days. i'm convinced that india and pakistan only send the biggest piece of shit assholes over to america. at least that's what the ones who aren't assholes tell me.

Bay Area?

My wife and I are leaving the Bay Area because we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever owning before we retire. Housing prices are just insane here due to the techies and their inflated salaries - I'm an engineer in a non-software related field and my salary doesn't even compare to those kids making phone apps. If we did leave our rent controlled apartment here, our rent would go up by at least 50%. When we get the hell outta dodge, we've been thinking Seattle first followed by Portland.

I'm not even American but I know Portland isn't cheap..they have a better class of hobo though

lol

Portland and Seattle are just about the two most expensive places to live in the PNW. Their are however jobs there. Hopefully you get a job on the outskirts of the city and not directly in the middle of that shit hole. You can find a nice place on the outskirts within a hours drive for a nice price. All cities have their problems.

What is your rent right now in the Bay Area?

I am not in the Bay Area. Even at 2.1k rent there is no rent ceiling here, they reserve the right to increase rent by up to 15% a year (and sometimes exercise this right, its usually a 5-6% increase a year if they like you and you have been loyal. Other units get stuck with 15% hard increase non-negotiable) And I mean NON-NEGOTIABLE. Their counter offer will be a paltry -2% off the 15% and claim that other units smaller than yours are renting for double (or some ridiculous claim, in order to justify kicking your ass into the street)

So within 3 years of living (your average mid-level job lasts about 3 years in a given location), you can get hit with a nearly 70% increase on rent regardless of the jobs market, with no other change in conditions just because the landlord (usually a Chinese corporation) said they can squeeze as hard as possible.

Because those Sillicon salaries aren't just in Sillicon valley anymore and they are taking full advantage of it. We need a statewide rent ceiling law, should be able to increase no more than 10% a year and only under certain circumstances. It should really be hard capped at 5% but that'll never happen.

Oh the solution of course is more fucking Section 8 help and corporate subsidy on rent. I forgot.

Post is about the greater Seattle area and the eastside suburbs.

There are scum landlords everywhere. Here in AZ I had to sue my former landlord to get back my security deposit that was illegally withheld from me. I won triple the original deposit back in small claims court, but it was still a huge pain in the ass to go through the process of legally requesting your deposit back and eventually serving them and going to court.

I thank Prexus that I'm now a home owner.

Problem with Seattle area is there's no good landlords anymore. Property values so inflated you'd have to be retarded to buy anything here, if you didn't 10 years ago you missed the boat.

Being younger and not married/settled down makes the decision to buy a house (which is possible on a decent salary) impossible.

I had plenty of house money in my later mid 20's, I was advised to buy a property, didn't do it because I didn't want to be chained down to a certain area as a young guy. Also owning a house by yourself is very weird to me. I couldn't fathom it. I still can't process how I'd make that work even at 30.

And by the time you eventually warm up to the idea, the money is all gone. Spent on the single life.

Getting married early imparts a lot of health benefits I later realized, one of them being its easier to make fiscally sound decisions. I'd have 2 houses by now.

I visited the Pacific Northwest for the first time last year (PDX, Seatle, Vancouver) and it was great, but it's hard to imagine a younger and middle class person like me being able to live there. I was just reading about how the average detached home in Vancouver has sky-rocketed to $2.23-million over the last couple years. My city may be desert shithole but at least it has a good economy and affordable housing.