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A TIC Joins My Real Estate Microcosm

My little rundown block in San Francisco is becoming quite the real estate market microcosm. So a new unit just came onto the market. That’s it to the right there–the lower left window in the blue building beside the rather putrid green apartment complex that I will neither confirm nor deny is the site of (more&hellip)

SF Saga: Finding Our Home (part 6)

This is the final chapter of a six-part series on my San Francisco Real Estate Saga, a months-long period involving countless house tours, sleepless nights, gut-wrenching decisions, and a total of three separate moves. The goal is to give people a sense of what’s involved with buying real estate, no matter the location or price. (more&hellip)

Renting to Own Happiness and Avoid Clutter

I realize it’s ironic for a blog about real estate to advocate renting. The thing is, for many people, renting makes a lot of sense. The American Dream tradition of everyone owning a home served our country well…until it didn’t. And now, people are increasingly questioning the value of home ownership. Some say it stifles (more&hellip)

Rent vs Buy – How Does Your City Stack Up?

Online real estate search site Trulia released a report this week covering the eternal rent vs buy debate for several US cities. For the uninitiated, this is a comparison of local rents to real estate prices–you divide the purchase price of a home by the annual rent of a comparable home to come up with (more&hellip)