SAN JOSE—Two cats are living large at a $1,500-a-month studio apartment their owner rents for them in Silicon Valley, where a housing shortage has sent rents prices skyrocketing.
The Mercury News reports the 20-pound cats named Tina and Louise moved to the studio in San Jose after their owner moved away to college.
The student’s father, Troy Good, was unable to keep them and asked friend David Callisch to rent him the kitchen-less studio so he could keep his daughter’s beloved cats.
Cat Tenants: Amid the housing crunch, a Silicon Valley man is paying $1,500 a month to house his daughter's two cats in a studio, while she is away at college. @BettyKPIX reports.https://t.co/cCehu2B3mv pic.twitter.com/pDFhhsAYtQ
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The newspaper reports Good and his cats got a decent deal because an average studio apartment in San Jose rents for $1,951 a month, according to RentCafe.
Callisch says he feels bad wasting valuable living space on animals during a housing shortage, but he wanted to help a friend.
They may be Silicon Valley’s most unusual and pampered tenants: these 2 cats, Tina and Louise, live by themselves in a $1500/mo. studio. @BettyKPIX reports https://t.co/KjoXp7cok8 pic.twitter.com/3FqsLyzMlc
— KPIX 5 (@KPIXtv) January 14, 2019