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855 Folsom St, Apt 742

This one never reached the math. What stopped it is below.

94107 · San Francisco

BMR deed restriction (no appreciation, room-rental barred)

Underwritten as of 2026-08-18 · record v10

Published at our defaults: House-Hack wins by $305,904 · S&P breakeven 14.5% first-pass screen

B B — the S&P 500 would need 13–17% a year, every year for a decade, to tie.

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Why we rejected it

  • BMR deed restriction (no appreciation, room-rental barred)

Rejected when we checked the listing itself.

Property facts

Asking price $381,000
Units 1
Beds / baths 2 / 1
Square feet 838
Year built 2001
Property type Condo

Unit count verified: 1 units, corroborated by county assessor records and the listing itself.

Nearby projects on our catalyst watch:

  • SoMa AI cluster (OpenAI / Anthropic / startups) · 0.1 mi · open today
  • Downtown conversion core (DRFD / 30x30), adjacent east · 0.4 mi · funded
  • 4th & King Caltrain station + future DTX terminus · 0.6 mi · open today

From the 2026-08-18 screen: 400 scanned · 34 beat the S&P at our defaults · 366 rejected.

If the market turns

Modeled appreciation is an assumption, so we replayed this deal against history: every 10-year window in the federal house-price index for San Francisco County (41 windows), each one swapping its actual price path in for our modeled appreciation.

History replayYearsEnds vs the never-buy path
Worst window2002→2012+$270,549
Median window1985→1995+$456,119
Best window1975→1985+$1,007,754

None of the 41 windows ended behind the never-buy path.

Replay the 2001 downturn as it hit this area and the deal ends year 10 $125,761 behind the never-buy path; the deepest point comes in year 8, $163,976 behind.

These windows track San Francisco County as a whole. Within the county, individual ZIPs' realized 10-year outcomes typically differed from the county's by about ±0.6 points/yr — one zip-decade in ten differed by ±1.8 points/yr or more, and the largest gap since 1975 was 7.4 points/yr. A specific building varies more than its ZIP, not less.

Where these numbers come from

Of the 11 inputs behind this analysis, 3 trace to evidence (our listing feed, area comps, county records).

  • Purchase price: an unclassified source · corroborated
  • Rent while you live in one unit: a standing area-research rule · single source
  • Rent after you move out: an unclassified source · no independent witness
  • The rent you would pay on the never-buy path: an unclassified source · no independent witness
  • Property tax rate: an unclassified source · no independent witness
  • Unit count: county assessor records · corroborated

A standing convention is a deliberate modeling choice we apply to every deal. We flag it rather than dress it up as evidence.

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Record v10 · engine aafb236 · profile fha-house-hack