All Forum Posts by: Wen Chuang

As title, thoughts? I think all of the SF home owners and landlords should really unite together to get our preferred mayor elected... Thanks!

I'm interested too. Thanks!

Also, on the 2nd photo (see photo below), there are some sort of "meter" connecting to the hot water pipes. Anyone know what those are for? Thanks!

I just noticed something on the Zillow. See https://www.zillow.com/homes/recently_sold/San-Fra...

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What is this? Thanks!

I'm in the SF market and it's been crazy for the past 4~5 months. A sunset district house that is on 42nd street can be sold for over 1.5M (about 1500 sqft, 3br, 2ba). Just curious, for this market, is the 70% rule still possible? Thoughts or comments? Thanks!

Dear all, sort of new here. How are you guys doing?

My mother-in-law has a house which we are helping to do some rehabbing and she is planning to rent it out.

One of the problems that we noticed, is that the exterior wood stairs (connecting the kitchen and garage) is exposed, so if it's raining, it would be very inconvenient for the tenants. So we are considering to do something about it.

Here are two photos:

Satellite picture (Google Map):

Some of the ideas are:

1. Use some sort of vinyl wave panel (e.g. Tuftex UltraVinyl Corrugated Square Wave Panel) to cover it up (both vertically and horizontally - same height as the roof), so that it would still keep the sunlight in. However, we don't know if it would look good this way.

2. Add an awning (see a picture below) - however, we are not sure if this would be high-maintenance, also it lacks the vertical side to prevent the rain, etc.

Any thoughts or comments? As much as possible we want to make it looks good, and hopefully low maintenance and reasonable priced.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks everyone for your wonderful feedback! :)

She is planning to keep everything legal and keep it as a single family home. Since the house is pretty close to public transpiration and Google/Apple/Hi-Tech company bus station, so we were thinking that maybe finish up the basement to have more bedrooms and bathrooms, would attract those high-tech working professionals to share the house and bump up the rent? However, we are not sure about the current condition of the rental market in this area (the zip code is 94116), and whether this would be possible (to potentially collect more rent by renting to working professionals who is willing to share a single-family-home). Thoughts or comments? Thanks!

Anyone here specialized in San Francisco rental market?

My mother-in-law has a house which she is considering to rent it out. The house is about 1400 sqft and is close to public transportation. The main level has 3 (small) br and 1 bath. Currently the basement has one bonus room and one half bath, and a two cars tandem garage. She is considering to finish the basement so that it would create one more living room, two bedrooms, and one full bath (will be losing one car parking space in the garage). This project will add about 550 sqft of extra living space. We asked a contractor, and the estimated cost is about 100K for such project.

My question is that, if she go ahead with such remodel project, who much more rent can be generated? The current zillow "Rent Zestimate" for this house is about $4200/mo. If she finish up the garage (which will increase the property value thus higher property tax), let's say maybe the rent can be increased to, say, $5500/mo. Would that $1300 rent increase justify such remodel project? Thoughts or comments? Thanks!