SFRentStats: Why

At the end of the August 2006, I was dealing a really shady landlord whose house was apparently going into foreclosure as he (like a lot of the city) had speculated on an adjustable rate mortgage...and he was desperately trying his best to get as much money as he could out of me in any way possible.

Although I sympathize with his plight, I really did not not want to live under a shady landlord. Hence, we broke the lease, and fled to find a new place.

As I started looking for places, I noticed everything that used to be for rent was now for sale due to the same forclosure effect that happened to my landlord. So many nice apartments in nice neighborhoods were for sale.... for months on end. Places that used to be rented.

It also appeared that the rents were going up..... but... were the really? or am I just paranoid and bitter?

Since I was waiting to get my research published, I figured I could waste ample amounts of time coding perl scripts and learning google maps.

This project was born out of boredom.

SFRentStats: Who

No. I am not a dot commer, or techy IPO person.
In my past life I was a bioinformatics researcher who studied protein not-folding. In my recent years I became a real biochemist, which involves playing with bacterial polymers and making them into little nanoscale toys I can look at under the microscope.

But I miss coding for some reason, and hence this is how I waste my time, coding stuff like this.

I just hope it is useful to someone (let me know if it is) my lab site.