I guess my perspective is slightly warped. I have a dog. A big dog. Which limits my options dramatically. But, I would have assumed that the perspective was similarly warped for SF, since she's coming with me to SF, as well, but perhaps there are simply more dog-friendly options in the city.

I will say that I'm now kinda shocked by how ridiculous the paperwork is for most SF rentals. They want huge swaths of banking data. Far more than I had to provide for any other place I've ever lived (even buying a house in Austin wasn't this intrusive). I've talked about the topic with my landlord (who wasn't too intrusive when I moved in here, and has been mostly great and hands off), and he said it all boils down to how hard it is to evict someone in California. Since throwing someone out takes as much several months after they stop paying or do something else against the rules, the property owners do everything they can to insure they never have to throw their tenants out. But, I still find it horribly annoying.