It has been a long hard battle for our winners this year. We had more nominees than in any previous contest, and our web traffic went through the roof (over 40,000 new visitors for this contest alone!) Contestants were pumping their Facebook and Twitter accounts spreading the word, and sites all around the world linked … Continue reading Winners: San Francisco Bay Area Sexiest Realtors 2009
Category: Just plain fun
Vote Now: San Francisco Bay Area Sexiest Realtor 2009!
[Friday a.m. update: We know the suspense is killing you, but you’ll have to a wait a little bit for the announcement of our finalists. We have properties to show, and contingencies to lift (and a bit of a hangover). You’ll know soon enough….and now you know (click to see the finalists)….and let the voting … Continue reading Vote Now: San Francisco Bay Area Sexiest Realtor 2009!
Comment Du Jour: You Don’t “Need” To Put Your Children In Private School
Bringing back an old favorite with our “Comment Du Jour”, because sometimes we simply can’t say it as well as our readers. This comment from Caroline SF on our recent post, It’s Less Expensive And More Environmentally Friendly To Live In The City, We Have Proof, is so good that we absolutely have to let … Continue reading Comment Du Jour: You Don’t “Need” To Put Your Children In Private School
Some Realtors Are So Dreamy! Just Listen To These…
If you haven’t noticed, our Sexiest Bay Area Realtor 2009 Contest is now accepting your nominees and they’re streaming in! Keep them coming ([email protected]). It’s funny, usually we get very simple emails with just the name and picture of the nominees, but every so often we get a few that are just too good to … Continue reading Some Realtors Are So Dreamy! Just Listen To These…
Sexy Bay Area Realtors, We Want You!
It’s that time of year again. The real estate market slows, agents are out getting in shape and looking sexier with every deal they frantically chase down, and we here at theFrontSteps like to throw a little contest in their honor. That’s right, it’s time for our third annual Sexiest Realtor In San Francisco Contest. … Continue reading Sexy Bay Area Realtors, We Want You!
What’s That Saying? Either _____ Or Sell The Pot?
Apparently Mr. Kirkpatrick has failed repeatedly to remove his Open House signs, so our reader sent us this picture in an effort to light a fire under his a$$ (no pun intended). We’d be willing to bet it works. [Update: One day later, we’re told the signs are gone. Funny how that works…]
Reason To Live Here (In SF) # 16: You Are Not “B & T”, And You Rarely Have To Deal With This
[Photo Source: Noah Berger] We received this email last night from the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, and we’re sure you all heard about the Emergent Closure of the Bay Bridge yesterday due to a “cantilever section made over Labor Day weekend[,which] snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span late … Continue reading Reason To Live Here (In SF) # 16: You Are Not “B & T”, And You Rarely Have To Deal With This
Pssst…Can You Step A Little To Your Right?
You gotta have faith, and a good photographer to get just the right light and angle when capturing the essence of a property to help it sell. Good marketing remarks help too: “View of neighbor”: Let’s hope he’s not the neighbor, cuz that’s getting a bit too close. –140 Faith, $760,500
Things We Love About Real Estate: The Realtor Voicemail
Is it just us, or do Realtors always feel they have to let the world know they wouldn’t for a second think about doing anything but working? Case in point, the Realtor voicemail. Try this for fun. Pick a Realtor, any Realtor (preferably a “top producer”…such a bogus title, but we won’t go there), and … Continue reading Things We Love About Real Estate: The Realtor Voicemail
Another Reason to Love Living Here
The FrontSteps likes to remind us of the reasons why we live in this fine city. Sometimes it is easy to forget: for instance, the third say in a week you find a ticket under your windshield wiper. I overheard a gentleman on the N-Judah the other day who, in response to a friend asking … Continue reading Another Reason to Love Living Here
Readers Ask: Readers Know (Usually)
The Frontsteps is littered with experts, so when a reader asks a question, seems like the highest form of logic is to simply pose that question to the aforementioned experts. Yesterday I asked if any, any, any reduction in price could make being a landlord for a full occupied, multi-unit property worthwhile. One reader, in response, … Continue reading Readers Ask: Readers Know (Usually)
So It’s Been Awhile, but…
So Alex is leaving town for awhile, chasing the big waves instead of the big buyers, and I’m standing, inadequately and ill fittingly, in his shoes. You may — or just as likely, may not– recall I used to guest write here on these Front Steps some time ago. Alex was nice enough to invite … Continue reading So It’s Been Awhile, but…
The Real Estate Spam Has To Stop!
Are you a Realtor that at one point or another may have contacted another Realtor and now all of a sudden you get ALL of that broker’s “new listings”, “off-market opportunities”, “price reduced”, “open house”, and “won’t last” emails? Are you a principal and walked into an open house, reluctantly gave your email and now … Continue reading The Real Estate Spam Has To Stop!
It’s Not Any White Out, It’s Premier
From a reader: For the “premier [Luxury] real estate office in the City”, white out on the elevator button is a bit ghetto…. I’m just saying. ’nuff said….thanks for the laugh!
Careful! Brokers Are Sleazy…..Apparently
Whoever comes up with this sh*t?! Are you people out there REALLY having experiences like this that lead you to create videos and rants bashing Realtors on such a scale? There are sleazeballs out there for sure, but this bad? Come on! You gotta be kidding! Off for the weekend. Happy Labor Day!
Comment Du Jour: “Easily outbid by USF”
This quote comes from reader “Disconsolate“, on “Stories Of Despair In San Francisco Real Estate“: I was in probate court that day to observe the overbidding on Juanita Way as preparation to overbid on a house in University Terrace. Our court date was last week. We showed up and went to our max ($100k over … Continue reading Comment Du Jour: “Easily outbid by USF”