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Gangs of San Francisco (On a T-Shirt)

June 18, 2010 By Luba

Image of Chutes: The Haight

Happy Friday, Folks!
Thought I’d share a fun, and not too well known (at least not yet) site that features some AWESOME San Francisco T-shirts.
The site is www.gangsofsanfrancisco.com and their shirts rock!
From the site’s “about me” page:

Gangs of San Francisco is a one man operation out of San Francisco’s Outer Richmond. A work in progress, it is run by me, Laureano Faedi. A self taught maker of things, I do all the design work, silkscreening, shipping and research. Having migrated to the Bay Area from Buenos Aires 30 years ago I have found San Francisco to be one of the best cities in the world to live in. This project serves as an outlet for my learning of it’s history as well as a way to teach myself silkscreening. I hope that not only will people enjoy my products but that it might also inspire them to learn more about the city.

His collection is a great start, but I’d LOVE to see more!  Let’s not forget about the various racetracks in the City, the brothels (oh yeah, we had those), the cemetaries (all over the west side of SF until they were moved out to Colma) and even old sports teams like the San Francisco Seals!
Anyhow – the shirts are cool, the shirt maker is a small local business man, and what better way to dress your weekend best than in a comfy shirt that celebrates your San Francisco pride! 🙂
Enjoy your weekend!  And buy a shirt! 🙂

Filed Under: Misc Musings from Your San Francisco Realtor, San Francisco Local Resources, San Francisco Neighborhoods, San Francisco Places, Weekend San Francisco Real Estate Linkage Tagged With: San Francisco Housing, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Real Estate Blog, San Francisco Realtor, San Francisco Realtor Blog, SF Housing, SF Real Estate, SF Real Estate Blog, SF Realtor, SF Realtor Blog

PG&E – San Francisco's Big Bad Wolf

June 17, 2010 By Luba

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I hate meter reading day.  In fact, my alarm just went off to notify me that it’s time for me to call PG&E and give them my gas & electricity meter reading. 
But, I hate meter reading day.  Sometimes, I forget.  And the rest of the time, it’s just a pain in the ass. 
Unfortunately, my meters are located in places where PG&E can’t see them from outside my house.
So when I heard about PG&E Smartmeters, I was SUPER excited.
But the wind has been taken out of my sails somewhat.  Seems PG&E’s mew smart meters aren’t that smart.  They’re full of errors.  BOOOOOO!
In fact, apparently there’s SO many errors that the San Francisco City Attorney has asked them to slow their roll.
For the full article, click here. 
And of course, whether you own SF real estate, or rent in the City, you might be affected by this too. 
In my fantasy world, PG&E will work out the kinks, fix the errors and make my meter reading life easy.
Till then, I’ll be calling it in manually. Bah humbug.

Filed Under: San Francisco Local Resources, San Francisco News and Events, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Real Estate Resources Tagged With: San Francisco Housing, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Real Estate Blog, San Francisco Realtor, San Francisco Realtor Blog, SF Housing, SF Real Estate, SF Real Estate Blog, SF Realtor, SF Realtor Blog

More News on San Francisco Pay to Play Condo Converstion Policy

June 15, 2010 By Luba

Plan C San Francisco

So I got a GREAT email from Plan C.  And while I usually love to add my two cents, they pretty much said it ALL for me.  So here it is, verbatim, for your condo conversion supporting pleasure:

We have good news to report regarding the proposed one time “condo bypass” for TIC owners, originally proposed in 2009 by Supervisor Elsbernd: the Mayor has included the condo bypass proposal as part of this year’s budget.
The details of the proposal are as follows:   TICs must have participated in the 2010 condo conversion lottery in order to be eligible for the condo bypass.  The fee for the bypass starts at $20,000 per unit for those who first participated in the lottery in 2010, and declines by 20% for each previous year of unsuccessful lottery participation. So, if 2010 was the first year your TIC participated in the lottery, your fee will be $20,000 per unit in the building. If 2010 was your second year, your fee will be $16,000 per unit. If 2010 was your third year of participation your fee with be $12,000 per unit. If 2010 was your fourth year $8,000/unit, and if it was your fifth year and beyond, $4,000/unit.  Note:  If your TIC only qualified to participate in the last 25 units which were drawn from Pool B of the 2010 lottery (because of eviction history), you are not eligible for the one-time bypass.
Plan C has worked with the Mayor’s office on this issue since it was first proposed, and we are very pleased that the Mayor has included the plan in the budget.  The proposal will bring significant revenue (likely in excess of $8M) to the city during this time of budget crisis – money that will provide funding to affordable and supportive housing programs that might otherwise be cut.  At the same time the legislation will bring much needed ownership and mortgage relief to middle income San Franciscans that owner occupy their TICs.  This is sensible legislation that helps everyone – it addresses the needs of TIC owners AND provides funding to low-income residents with special housing needs.  Tenants are also protected – to be eligible to participate in the lottery, the TIC building must not have been subject to recent Ellis Act evictions, must not have evicted any protected tenants and must not have more than one no fault eviction.
How you can help!
Email the Mayor and Key Supervisors. The Mayor and the Supervisors need to hear from us – contact them today by clicking here – let them know that you support the one-time condo bypass. Tell them that the program would help thousands of first-time homeowners, would hurt no one, and that it would help solve the City’s budget mess. And then tell them that you support overall reform of the completely broken condo conversion process! If you have the time and desire to call them, do that too. (contact information available here).
Attend the budget hearing on June 21.  The condo bypass will be considered at the budget hearing at City Hall on June 21. The hearing starts at 10AM, and the Condo Bypass is Item Number 4.  We don’t expect the Board to get to Item 4 until at least noon.  Please come and speak in public comment – tell the supervisors that you support the condo bypass! We know that the opponents of this program will be out in force – so it is critical to have supporters there as well.  If you are able to attend the hearing, let us know by email at [email protected]– we may be able to give you better information as to exactly when to show up as it gets closer to June 21.
 

Filed Under: San Francisco Local Resources, San Francisco News and Events, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Real Estate Resources Tagged With: San Francisco Condo Conversion, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Realtor, SF Condo Conversion, SF Real Estate, SF Realtor

And We're Back….

June 12, 2010 By Luba

So you may have noticed I have been MIA for a while. 

Some of you sent sweet emails asking if everything was OK.  Big hugs to you! 🙂

Some of you sent crappy emails telling me you were never reading my blog again since I hadn’t posted in a while.  No hard feelings, but you also won’t really be missed.  I wish you the best, and I’m sure you have found a new real estate blog that will keep you happy.

Frankly – sometimes life comes first.  Things like being there for family and taking care of my clients are more important than blogging.  I’m a human first, a realtor second, and a blogger third.  So when something ha

Bug that being said – life has calmed down and so, it’s time to blog again.  I’m not promising daily posts, but I’ll try to keep you aprised of all the goodies that are going down in the San Francisco real estate market. 

Stay tuned – real life real estate  info is heading your way! 🙂

Filed Under: Misc Musings from Your San Francisco Realtor Tagged With: San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Realtor, SF Real Estate, SF Realtor

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