I don’t know what to do anymore. When I first got this apartment in 2021 I was paying $2400/mo and that was at the cap of my budget. Then in 2022 it went up to $2700. Now it’s looking like it’s going up to $3300 if I sign for 12 more months, and the month-to-month price is $4300.
I have a really nice salary in a HCOL city but honestly this does not feel okay. I was planning on the possibility of relocating to a less expensive city but this makes that decision a whole lot easier.
Seriously, how does anyone do it? No matter what I do, I can’t seem to feel like I’m getting ahead. I’m responsible. I do the right thing. I save for retirement and don’t eat out my meals. I drive a modest car. It feels like after a while, nothing else really helps.
In order to leave and find a less expensive city though, I’d need to leave my job. My job needs me to be in this city for some reason. They don’t even have us come into the office, they just need us in LA. I have no desire to stay here where the cost of living violently outpaces my ability to make money.
I’m 30, I have a savings of about 45k cash just in case I’d be moving, I have about 60k in 401k/ira funds. I work every weekend and sell artwork and have a YouTube channel. I can’t possibly side hustle more than I am. I cook at home and don’t eat out ever these days. I say no to plans. I’m trying so hard to do everything right.
I’m desperate for help on this. I feel so lost and defeated. If you have any guidance, I’m all ears.
The rent increases is legit why we left LA, and moved to Ventura county. The taxes, car insurance, etc. are so much lower, and still a driveable commute to LA when needed.
LA resident here. No advice necessarily…just that I deeply, deeply feel your pain.
I’m on the opposite coast and in the same situation. I think this is just our reality now.
My mind always jumps back and forth between 2 thoughts:
1. If I’m paycheck-to-paycheck and making nearly $100k per year, how bad is this economy for people without high paying jobs? How are they making ends meet?
2. How the hell is everyone affording these $60k+ trucks?
This increase appears to be above the 10% rent hike cap in California. I would do some research and see if what they’re doing is legal. This may be a totally illegal rent hike depending on the circumstances. The link below explains some of this in additional detail, but please look into the actual laws and consider contacting a tenant’s rights attorney.
https://propertyclub.nyc/article/california-rent-increase-laws
There’s an entire country of places that are actually affordable for people to live. California in general is insanely expensive. I can afford to support my wife and daughter in the Midwest on 75,000 a year and I have a modest ranch house on half an acre.
I would just find a comparable job in an area like that and never look back. It sounds intimidating but so is putting up with what you’re dealing with. What’s the point in living in a place like that if you work yourself to death in the process?
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I live in Charleston, SC, a dead on avg cost of living city. Moved out of a house in August. I was paying $2500 a month and the new tenants are paying $4750. Fkin’ nuts.
Considering LA is massive, you do have quite a lot of options on where to be. I’m in the eagle rock neighborhood and pay 1750 for my quite nice place. Been at this apt. 10 years now.
OP if your building is over 15 years old. It’s subject to rent control. So the max they could charge you is 2640
This is why my son left his dream job in the Phoenix area. The rent increases made living there unsustainable.
Its crazy that LA and SF are both places where my company pays a 30% pay adjustment just to get people to stay with them.
$100,000 in most of US instantly turns to $200,000 for these cities if you want to maintain the same lifestyle. With property rent/mortgage taking a lion’s share of that difference.
Sit down and look at the math of what your job would pay versus cost of living in other cities. I was in a similar situation where my rent went from 2400 to 3000 in a year. I left Boston a year ago and am so much happier. My salary dropped about 15 percent but my cost of living dropped much more.
They raise the price so much each year because they know most people would be too lazy to move every year or too attached to their home. If you move every year, you can usually find a place with move-in incentives. From your numbers, it sounds like it’s a corporate managed apartment complex. These places always jack up your renewal price, but then if you check their website there are available units at a lower price. If you try to negotiate, they’ll say “only new residents can get that price.”
If you have no problems moving, go and see some places that have good cost of living va income ratio.
Like this https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/cities-with-high-salaries-low-cost-of-living/
If you don’t already I would say, move close to but far enough out of the main bulk of LA that rent is cheaper. While I’m not in California, I also live in and HCOL area. The farther you go from the main city, or cities, the cheaper rent may become.
I would be looking at AB 1482. That rent increase doesn’t seem legal, but there are exceptions to AB 1482.
I simply left California. It was easy for me. I had many many many reasons to leave. I left the state and took a $1 per hour pay cut.
OP at 30 with that much saved and in your 401k you are ahead of the the vast majority of your peers. What you are doing is actually you excelling and trailblazing, rather than being back there with a lot of other people.
Please recognize that. The pathway to becoming extremely comfortable without having huge earnings is a massive grind or stroke of luck in these modern times.
Other people don’t rent apartments solo, they have roommates who they split with, rent rooms out of peoples homes, or live with their parents.
You are doing really well, but you are just cheap which isn’t a bad thing, but it makes it feel like you have the cards stacked against you because you expect too much. In all honestly the system is built to take all of your money eternally, and you are doing a good job of not letting it!
Since you don’t plan to buy a home, you just gotta become more comfortable getting ripped off for housing costs, and put more effort into finding something.
I’m in LA paying $2300 in rent in a bougie part of WeHo. There’s no reason to be paying $3300 in rent.
IMO given that you’re only 30, your retirements savings should not be more than your non-retirement savings. I’m not familiar creative jobs but is selling artwork and making a youtube channel the best use of your time (even if you’re making a profit, could you be doing better by going back to school or getting some certs)? Work smarter not harder
I feel like this is all in your head. The fact you’ve been able to save 100k by 30 years old is very impressive and probably in the top 20% of LA. Just find an apartment that isn’t scamming you and you’ll be fine.
My company opened a facility in the economically depressed coal region of PA. At first, I thought the area would be awful. Whelp…
I can drive about two hours and hit up NYC, DC, Philly, or 3.5 to Pittsburgh. My home is now nestled between some mountains and gorgeous. I pay $1,100 for an entire floor of a Victorian mansion that was remodeled into rental units. I have always lived in urban areas, and my last city was Nashville, so this feels amazing.
I’m in south Florida. I signed a year lease 2 years ago for a 1/1 tiny apartment for 1400/mo. Next year they raised us to ~1750/mo. They just offered us our renewal at over 2000/mo. The neighborhood since we’ve moved in has only gotten worse. We had someone murdered outside. I had to have my neighbor arrested the other day. Constant police in the neighborhood.
We are not signing the renewal as we are buying a house. We are staying in the same city, going to a better neighborhood, buying a 2/2 townhouse and our mortgage is gonna be a bit under 1900/mo.
Also to tack on to the absurdness of the rent raises, I still receive the previous tenant’s mail. One day, sheriffs came to my apartment to arrest her. I obviously told them she doesn’t live here anymore. But out of morbid curiousity, I looked her up in the court system. She was evicted from our apartment 3 years ago. Her rent then was 900/mo!!! So in 3 years, over a 100% hike in rent on the same apartment.
How does your employer define being “in LA” if you don’t have to come into the office? Is it just that, in theory, you need to be able to get to the office if/when requested? If you aren’t regularly required to do that, consider broadening your geography a bit. There are plenty of cheaper places to live in LA County that are still “in LA.”
beside the topic of rent, you might need to get yourself a life too while you are at making changes. looks like you are wasting your young years to prepare for old years.
If you don’t go to the office, just get a PO box in LA and move where you want. How will they know?
Cost of living goes up, salary’s stay the same. That’s the problem everywhere. I joined the work force a couple of years ago and quickly found out that It’s impossible to get ahead unless you live with a partner or roommate. Dual income households helps a lot. It’s just the nature of the times. Nothing is traditional anymore. Do what you need to do to make your goals.
You could ask your company for a cost of living raise. Then again… Company’s are blown away that their employees are asking for more money. Even those that are less experienced in their field have to do it just to break even on houses and transportation alone. It’s just impossible to save anymore. You want to buy a house? Good luck. I’d look at a cost of living calculator to help decide a potential next location to live.
I don’t live in LA anymore. I lived specifically in Harbor City. In 2019 my rent was $1459 for a 1 bedroom apartment. I moved back home now but I checked the website for the rent just to see the inflation and in 2022 it was $2099.
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