theFrontSteps – San Francisco

If you haven’t already noticed, we real appreciate our readers and will publish most, if not all, of your contributions. This time AMITinSF sends us his/her thoughts: The first article, is a totally regressive neo-socialist diatribe (predictably, from the sf bay guardian) on, get this, how Google’s shuttle bus is bad for the Mission district! [...]

From a mortgage broker to a Realtor: While having you as a client has been a real treat, you may know someone who’s been “tricked” by a ghoulish mortgage professional. If that’s the case, send them our way. Not taking sides, not pointing fingers, just throwing it out there. -Point Counter Point, More Sub Prime [...]

Not that we’re suddenly an advocate for Redfin, although we do applaud innovation and entrepreneurship, but when readers ask, we do our best to answer. “Marlow Harris” asked on our Redfin reboots… post: In July, you wrote that they [Redfin] had about 15 closed sales in the SF area. Have they had any more in [...]

Time: 20:05 on 10/30/2007. If you plan on living in San Francisco, get used to quakes. That one literally happened seconds ago (in the middle of posting), and it happens all the time. Still rattles the nerves, no matter how many you’ve been through. [Update at 20:24: And look at that, the quake site is [...]

From our post regarding the view from Uranus. Comment by “james”: “how fitting. an unfettered view of Chris Daly’[s] emasculated penis from uranus” -the view from Uranus [theFrontSteps]

Where readers ask, and we try to answer: Your posting on 10/25 regarding the property on Vernon Street being sold in light of a pending foreclosure prompts these questions: 1) If a property is pending foreclosure and the owner has filed for bankruptcy can they still sell? I am of two minds on this: 1) [...]

Not the view from Saturn , Mars, or Venus, because we’ve got those too. Certainly not the view from your an…ah forget it. The skyline is a changing, that’s the point, and this property (49 Uranus Ter) is again available and reduced to $995,000 (from $1,100,000 original asking). For those wondering, that is One Rincon [...]

Just browsing our “stats”, we found someone hit our site by searching, “Real Estate agent layoffs”. For the most part, we’re independent contractors and don’t necessarily get “layed off”. More like, the broker would pull you aside and say, “Can you really live off of $8000 year?” For what it’s worth, if the market (read: [...]

Calling all Realtors, bloggers, and readers in San Francisco! Share your experiences on the market in this thread. I, Alex Clark (the editor), am actually feeling chatty and have been chiming in, and would love some insight from my colleagues as well as all you readers and bloggers. Go ahead…comment. It’s actually kind of fun. [...]

Where readers ask, and we try to answer [We think we'll have to go a bit deeper and call on some other local real estate blogs for this answer]: “Whatever happened to the proposed Home Depot at the old Goodman’s site [Goodman Lumber on Bayshore Boulevard]? The site is an eyesore and in the meantime [...]