“It is important to remember, as well, that even after a steep drop in the S&P/Case-Shiller Indices, long-term buyers in the top 20 U.S. metro markets have seen their properties appreciate by 70% since 2000. Home prices often take five to 10 years to recover fully from severe declines such as this. But at least the available data suggest the scary dive in home prices soon will be over.”

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A very intreresting article came out from Barron’s written by Jonathan R. Lang which I’ve excerted and commented on in my Trulia Blog. It talks about signs of change in the realaity of the real estate market that the mainstream news media is ignoring. This quote really sum’s up what we are being told; ‘”Other than [...]

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The upshot of this is I will be forming a “Freinds of Miraloma Park” group. We will organize volunteers to keep this jewel of a playground in good shape.

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In the Chronicle on July 21 Bay Area section article on the transit make over, Supervisor Elsbernd was quoted “. . . it is now up to city officials to show leadership in turning the proposal into reality.

“We have to do something that is a rare thing – saying that people will have to sacrifice for the greater good,” he said. “That’s never easy.”

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On October 15, 2007 I presented a seminar at the San Francisco Board of Realtors with Hydra Mendoza, a member of the Board of Education and Gentle Blythe, the Director of the Office of Community Outreach for SFUSD. Their presentation was focused on giving Realtors information to answer our client’s questions about admissions and the quality of education in The City.

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What’s that you might ask? It was a gathering of bloggers that are here to attend Brad Inman’s Inman Connect SF, which is the largest gathering of real estate professionals that use the web 2.0 tools. There are many, many conversations, new products, ideas traded, people from around the country that use social media to [...]

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I took the opportunity to be a victim for the San Francisco Fire Deparetment Neighborhood Emergency Response Team traiining session at Lick Wilmerding High School in May.

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Is San Francisco to be a suburb of San Jose or Walnut Creek? I hope not and I want to do everything I can to keep The City the center of the area. Density will have to rise. There is no other way to accommodate the increase in population that is clamoring to live here.

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Before the start of the work day on my Bella Vista garden project our district 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd e-mailed me that he was looking forward to the physical activity after spending the past two weeks working on the San Francisco city budget. Here he takeas a powerfull swing on a very tenacious ivy root.  Budget [...]

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