Last month I got a call from a first-time buyer at 9:47 p.m. on a Tuesday. She was reading her home inspection report and had gotten to the part about "conditions conducive to the growth of wood-destroying fungi." She wanted to know if sh...
A friend of mine moved to The City last year from Austin. Software engineer. $200,000 base salary. He called me from his Airbnb in Hayes Valley, buzzing with that new-to-SF energy, and said "I'm ready to buy a house." I paused. No...
Last week a client called me in a mild panic. She'd been pre-approved, we'd found a great two-bedroom condo in the Inner Sunset, and we were about to write an offer. Then she talked to her uncle. Her uncle... who is a general contra...