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an airbnb for rentals

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So, in a bid to make Singapore, the Group House a reality, I've been house-hunting. And my god is SF renting a pain in the ass. (And yes, American spelling. An American problem.) This has involved (slightly) elevated stress levels for the previous month, an attempted and failed coup for a house that we really wanted, solving some really underspecified optimization problem (we'll know when we have AGI because it'll be able to find us the perfect house), hours of very precious researcher time spent scrolling Zillow and Craigslist and apartments.com, self-guided tours of luxury battery cages that pass as apartments in downtown, roommate scouting and principle-writing, a really quite lovely landlord, many a GPT-query reading lease and figuring out mould, and now a tentatively-signed month-by-month lease. Compare this to finding an AirBnB (a requirement, actually, while I looked for a damn house). Log on to AirBnB.com, enter in the specified dates, fill in the form, add credit card, done. N

an airbnb for rentals A thing I want in the world TLDR: What AirBnB currently is, but for long-term rentals. So, in a bid to make Singapore, the Group House a reality, I've been house-hunting. And my god is SF renting a pain in the ass. (And yes, American spelling. An American problem.) This has involved (slightly) elevated stress levels for the previous month, an attempted and failed coup for a house that we really wanted, solving some really underspecified optimization problem (we'll know when we have AGI because it'll be able to find us the perfect house), hours of very precious researcher

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