One of my favorite cafes in North Beach is Mario’s. In 1987, before my husband, Michael, and I moved to San Francisco, we visited his sister, Ravenna, and her husband, Chuck. Ravenna took me to North Beach to a place called Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store for lunch. The cigars are no longer there but the café, a long time favorite of mine, still is. At that time, I would have ordered a meatball sandwich (before I swore off beef) and …
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Category: Thoughts & Tidbits
Where can you go in San Francisco to watch a sailboat race, walk a sandy trail along the water and grab a delicious caprese sandwich at the Beach Hut? If you guessed Crissy Field, you just guessed one of my favorite spots in the city and I did all of those things when I went for a walk there this past weekend. Ever since this area, which was a former Army airfield, was developed and opened to the public in …
My new listing at Portside II in South Beach would make a sweet pied-à-terre or perfect urban retreat. It will be open this Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4! www.Portside614N.com …
It’s complicated. I just came back from an amazing adventure in Cuba so I thought I’d pass on some of what I learned. I went there with my husband on an educational cultural tour with City College of San Francisco. Until the last few years, you could not buy a home in Cuba; however, you could swap homes with someone else. A three bedroom apartment in Havana today costs between $30,000 and $50,000. While by SF standards, this sounds like …
When taking a sweet first time buyer couple out looking at properties a while back, the wife remarked to me that the process of buying wasn’t exactly like HGTV, which she watched a lot. While the shows on this channel are entertaining, they certainly do not reflect reality. For one thing, most buyers are looking at many more than three homes before they make a decision on what they are going to buy. In a recent episode on HGTV, the …
When walking through a condo on Broker’s Tour, I overheard a conversation with the listing agent and a frustrated buyer who happened to be walking through the property as well. The buyer was complaining about the market, about how so many offers were cash offers and about how he had written several offers and hadn’t prevailed yet. The listing agent leaned in trying to console him and confidentially told him not to worry as she had represented a buyer recently …