In San Francisco, a Young Woman Defied Her Parents and Followed Her Heart to a New Apartment
A first-time buyer put her savings to work in the expensive Bay Area housing market, using the local tenancy-in-common model to find something she could afford. Here’s where she landed.
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![Sierra Nguyen near her new home in San Francisco, where she aimed to buy her first apartment with a budget of less than $1 million.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/21/multimedia/18Hunt-Nguyen-04-wfpz/18Hunt-Nguyen-04-wfpz-thumbLarge.jpg?auto=webp)
![Sierra Nguyen near her new home in San Francisco, where she aimed to buy her first apartment with a budget of less than $1 million.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/21/multimedia/18Hunt-Nguyen-04-wfpz/18Hunt-Nguyen-04-wfpz-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg?auto=webp)