[roadcat]

.........another Frisco horror

Good link, thanks. It explains what can happen. A single tenant in the building falls under a different law, allowing large rent increases. After a secondary tenant moves out, the landlord removes the second unit making it storage space or a garage etc., allowing the building to become single tenant occupied. Makes sense. Your link describes the building being in Bernal Heights in SF. That's where I lived 60 years ago. My parents bought their house in the early 1950s for $6,000 fully furnished with chinaware and silverware, putting $100 down. Same house now goes for $1.5 million. Used to be a blue collar neighborhood, until an influx of yuppies in the mid-1970s gentrified the neighborhood.

[cloudmountain]

Good link, thanks. It explains what can happen. A single tenant in the building falls under a different law, allowing large rent increases. After a secondary tenant moves out, the landlord removes the second unit making it storage space or a garage etc., allowing the building to become single tenant occupied. Makes sense. Your link describes the building being in Bernal Heights in SF. That's where I lived 60 years ago. My parents bought their house in the early 1950s for $6,000 fully furnished with chinaware and silverware, putting $100 down. Same house now goes for $1.5 million. Used to be a blue collar neighborhood, until an influx of yuppies in the mid-1970s gentrified the neighborhood.

Thanks for that information.
Did you home have a good view?
Most of the bay area was blue collar. Our family was. It was also 100% union.
With gentification...everything did change.