theFrontSteps – San Francisco

Because we know many of you don’t read the brilliant comments. From time to time we have to bring them to you (edited slightly for flow): I did not read over the hoards of posts, but i would like to leave a comment! I really do not care how much Realtors make, matters not. But, [...]

For the new readers, the comment du jour is our way of saying thanks to those that participate in commenting, and a way to show all of you that don’t comment just what kind of good stuff you’re missing. Today’s comment du jour comes from Sparky in “Should I even Start a Blog” after we [...]

Clearly this guy [San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly] lives in a cloud (according to most property owners), but somehow he remains in office. Our comment du jour comes from “Live Smart” in our recent post Daly goes after rental property owners…yet again. Daly needs to be run over by a MUNI bus. Well said, and [...]

From Aubear1 in Bay Area attracts top talent and money (theFrontSteps): Check out the percentage of VC funding that this region received during Q1 ’08 versus other parts of the country: PWC MoneyTree.com I can’t think of a more compelling piece of information that paints the picture of how this region continues to create both [...]

This time we take from Eddy!, who we have never met in person, but who continues to impress. His comment was in yesterday’s post, “Isolated Panic amongst some San Francisco Realtors or something larger“: I’m a renter who made the conscience decision to NOT buy — I’m well financed and consider myself reasonably knowledgeable on [...]

We love ourselves some hot Realtors, and we also think our “average” colleagues (the rest of us) are great (even though we continually bash the not so great), but this comment by Kenny the other day in Stats & Numbers: Condos… was so blunt and in your face we had to post it. It sucks [...]

Although we’ve recently made friends with the folks at Zillow, that doesn’t mean we can’t bust their chops. We still applaud their innovation. From “Sleepiguy in “Zanic! Zillow releases Q4 home value report and San Francisco is up 3.6%?” I stopped paying attention to Zillow when my home’s Zillow value decreased randomly by $600k one [...]

Where we poach from our readers and their comments to show all you folks that don’t follow or contribute to the comments what you’re missing (and hopefully shame you into getting your ass over their and chiming in). Today, we steal from “anon” (wish you gave us a name) on “Verbatim: Why is Housing in [...]

Sometimes we beat our heads against the wall to come up with a way, in a paragraph or less, to describe what is going on in this market. We show the highs, and we show the lows. Today, we pull from our previous post about the 41% dip in volume at the $500-700,000 price range, [...]

From “eddy” on Tanking Market? Come again? That’s what she said…”: The best and nicest homes will continue to fly in this market. Any home with a story or in disrepair is going to get stale. We didn’t say it, he did. But we’d have to say if “fixer” falls under the category of “disrepair”, [...]