San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced in February that about 84% of the home mortgages that have been foreclosed on in the city contained at least one error in their ... Read More
Upon seeing an especially large disclosure statement for a tenancy-in-common (TIC) unit, I found myself thinking that if disclosures could eat they must live on Big Macs because th... Read More
What do you think about the San Francisco real estate market these days? Stenkamp: The market is hot! We’re seeing multiple offers on many of our listings. There is pent up b... Read More
The headline improvement of this edition is its “retina” display, which offers 2048-by-1536 pixel resolution. The display does look great; but then, the iPad 2 display look... Read More
Sometimes it’s hard enough just keeping track of your own finances. But as many of us have learned, life gets even more complicated when your parents come to you for assistan... Read More
Rome and Greece dominated Europe and much of the known Western world for hundreds of years, and it is interesting to see how they have progressed in the 2,000 years since then. Our... Read More
Over the past year, I’ve written about the America’s Cup and in particular its implications for the Marina and District 2, but in this column I want to address one of t... Read More
Or Mother Goose, a cow, reindeer, toy soldier, Jelly Belly, or most recently, Sesame Street’s Big Bird (or rather, at a daunting 5 foot 2, a not so Big Bird). Though it’... Read More
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, $16 This book is over 10 years old, but still riveting and very well written (by Jenkins). It’ll bring tea... Read More
This month, the column formerly known as “North Beach Beat” is reborn as “Over the Hill.” I can hear you snickering, damn you, but the reason for the name change ha... Read More
On January 17, 2012, the west sidewalk of the Golden Gate Bridge closed for improvements to the bike path leading to the entrance of the sidewalk at the south end of the Bridge. Ad... Read More
We live in somewhat of a bicycle utopia in San Francisco, as we have lots of riders and many cross-town lanes dedicated to just cycling. We are a fitness-focused city and use alter... Read More
The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More
For my morning walk across Fort Mason for coffee and scones at Greens To Go, I enter through the Fort Mason gates, cutting across the kept lawns and roadways that bloom with someth... Read More
Attending any of the more than 15 San Francisco Redistricting Task Force meetings has been both interesting and daunting. Interesting in that the people of San Francisco are involv... Read More