Thanks Elan for featuring us (I'm the founder of Live Near Friends).
Happy to help any of your readers if they are serious about buying homes near friends. In particular, we are piloting a new service for folks in the SF Bay Area or LA that helps them identify properties that are a particularly good fit for friend compounds. People can DM me if they want to be added to that pilot.
I absolutely love the premise of Live Near Friends; I found them while looking into options for expanding a shared artist studio into more opportunities for us to also actually live together... or at least, live near each other.
What I have unfortunately discovered in the house-hunting process is that it's extremely difficult to find multi-unit buildings that are entirely vacant without histories of evictions and/or tenant buyouts. On the surface, tenant buyouts feel better ethically, but there's still a pretty whack power dynamic at play that I don't want to be complicit with :(
Thanks Elan for featuring us (I'm the founder of Live Near Friends).
Happy to help any of your readers if they are serious about buying homes near friends. In particular, we are piloting a new service for folks in the SF Bay Area or LA that helps them identify properties that are a particularly good fit for friend compounds. People can DM me if they want to be added to that pilot.
Thanks for the mention, Elan!
I absolutely love the premise of Live Near Friends; I found them while looking into options for expanding a shared artist studio into more opportunities for us to also actually live together... or at least, live near each other.
What I have unfortunately discovered in the house-hunting process is that it's extremely difficult to find multi-unit buildings that are entirely vacant without histories of evictions and/or tenant buyouts. On the surface, tenant buyouts feel better ethically, but there's still a pretty whack power dynamic at play that I don't want to be complicit with :(
The backstory of the San Francisco example you mention in your post, for instance, is pretty grim: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/09/san-francisco-friend-compound-eviction-secret/
This was entirely wonderful. Thank you.