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rent control
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Translation: I may be a hippie, but I own investment properTYs.
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True story: During the tech boom, I rented an attic apartment from an ex- hippie who bought her house in the Berkeley hills sometime in the 60s. She was as shocked as anyone that she grew up, got a real job, and her house was now worth a fortune. She rented the attic aparment on short term, month-to-month leases in order to get around Berkeley's rent control. Visiting professors and grad students were here bread and butter tenants. I got a fantastic view of the Golden Gate Bridge and a place to crash for a few months while fighting the housing market in the Bay Area, and she got a hell of a lot more rent than she would have under the rent control rules. I think we both won.
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