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Towse on Delusions of Grandeur: Home Values are *Down*, 29 days ago

Depends on where you are.

Also from SFGATE, Bay Area Home Prices by ZIP (June 2008).

94111 - median price down 40%. 3 sales. Sales down 62.5%, which means like 5 sales in June 2007.

On the other hand, 94133. 8 sales. Sales down 38.5%. (13 sales June 2007?) Median price up 60%. Of course, of those eight sales, one of them was for $5.5m. Yikes.

Median -- to recap junior high math -- you list all the prices and find the price(s) in the middle of the spectrum. From 1-8, find what #4/#5 sold for. From 1-3, find what #2 sold for. Top selling for 94111 was $1.7m. Median price was $515K. Who knows what the lowest selling unit was.

94107 down 10%. 94109 up 10%. Numbers can be so bogus.

Towse on Snapped SF: Cannot has ..., about 1 month ago

I hatez viral marketing. (Unless it's for a good cause and this isn't it.)

Towse on Theater of Absurdity: North Beach Wars Over Pagoda, 3 months ago

Shanahan isn't THD prez. She's co-chair of the Planning and Zoning Committee.

And (out of the closet!) I'm a member of not only THD but also NBN, and I'm not the only neighbor with a foot in both camps.

Can't we all just get along?

(btw, I read in the SFC this morning -- re plastic bags -- that there are 58 Walgreens in our compact 7x7 San Francisco. Neighbors have one down at Bay and Mason next to the Safeway and another over at Stockton and Vallejo. Close enough for me, should I be needing to find a Walgreens.)

Towse on The People's Guide: Jackson's Day 5 Doozie, 4 months ago

I've seen all this before. Boy howdy.

I really think this multi-unit (three? two? who sez? what?) building is a certifiable TIC.

Aaron and Nancy own a portion. Aaron's parents own a portion. That's what all that TIC stuff is all about, verdad -- multiple folks chipping in to buy a place and filing the ownership papers as "tenants in common" rather than "joint tenants" or whatever.

If you look into the particulars down at City Hall, you'll see Aaron's parents are gifting them a percentage of the building to the max the tax code allows taxpayers to gift in a tax year. (I think it's $10K ea, which wd mean $20K for Aaron's parents per person and, therefore, $40K per year to A&N from H&T.)

Yes, it's all very weird and discombobulated, but why not just ask?

Yo! Aaron! What's going on with the weirdness of the TIC whatever setup on the Filbert Steps place, eh?

Question is, I guess. How does all this work into what the property value is and what the property tax is? If Aaron and Nancy are being charged property taxes based on the value (on purchase) of their place ($1.6m or something thereto) I say gawdblessem and isn't the tax code a wonderful thing?

Towse on Asked Curbed SF: I've Been Hosed by My Landlord! Now What?, 4 months ago

I was encouraging someone to use small claims court (or the threat thereof) just last night.

Small claims court is easy peasy. It's really really designed for the small guy suing the big guy for damages less than $X.

Tell the landlord you understand but you'll be filing in small claims court. Trust me, the landlord will deal with you in a heartbeat.

(I'm trusting you have documentation of the damage and the landlord's request that you go fro and thither. ...)