Searching for housing in San Francisco , and desire to channel your innerErlich Bachman ? For $ 3600 , you canrent an average one - sleeping accommodation apartment — but if you ’re willing to deal living space and shell out an additional $ 900,TheSan Francisco stage business Timesreportsthat you could score a room in a actual - life mansion .
Tech startup Roam — which , on its internet site , describes itself as an “ international web of co - living spaces”—recently opened its first San Francisco location . The 13 - bed , 14 - bath home plate is located in the city ’s Alamo Square territory , andwas originally built in 1904for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco . In posterior years , it operate as a seam and breakfast .
Roam customers yield $ 4500 a calendar month ( or $ 1200 per workweek ) to use the mansion house ’s common rooms , co - working spaces , kitchen , and laundry facilities . When they ’re not busybodied " disrupting " be industries and creating new markets , they can unwind in a yoga and speculation room and legion soiree in either a sake elbow room or 40 - person dining room .
As one of the nation ’s most expensive cities , San Francisco has pushed the luxuriousness lodging market to new stature in recent years .
" When affordability and quality did n’t seem uncommitted to us , we thought why do n’t we just discover a way to go over the top and be a part of the most gorgeous communal life experiment we can think of ? " Roam spokesperson Jessica Tran told theBusiness Times . " What if we pop out modest but [ at least ] open up a examination ground for how far co - living can be take ? "
Do n’t live in San Francisco , but want to experience the Roam life-style for yourself ? The caller is slate to open up anywhere from eight to 10 more co - running residences by 2017 , in location let in London , Tokyo , and Buenos Aires .
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