Most agents make minimum wage or less to begin.

If you are, for example, a waiter, you will need to be able to prove your tips in addition to your W2 wages.

I've been a field engineer for almost 10 years now and the corporate world (for me at least) is stagnant with respect to wages and is very demanding physically and schedule-wise.

In all those areas your typical renter will be a household that makes $30-$65K a year with 1-2 earners with 0-2 kids.

Wage garnishment is a waste as well since they will just get another job.

It's not a bad plan, but most people are aware of the cost of living issues of SF, so I think its effectiveness isn't particularly high.The big cities have always had higher wages, however now it's gotten to the point of ridiculousness in some fields.The other thing I've started to see now is that companies are starting to become more open about having people work remotely full time from home.   

If they don't mind having a harder time finding a place to live in the future, possibly garnished wages etc they can take you to the cleaners. 

Increasing vacancy rates, downward pressure on wages, and many workers who immigrated from other parts of Canada, moving back home.

But I love this...I'd rather get paid minimum wage doing what I do than work for an office job

I am currently working full time at an IT consulting firm, but one of my current goals is to completely replace my wages with buy and hold investments (SFR and Multi-Family).