All Forum Posts by: Neil G.

what's the 'cheapest' home inspection cost? Cond? SFDetach??

 i've so far always gone with doing my own since my dad is a bldg engineer and my besty is a general contractor.

but unfortunately i cannot do it myself for my clients. if u know a good couple to choose from, pls also pass them along.. thx

^interesting, how does title then clear from seller to buyer if the seller's mortgage remains unpaid/unasummed? or if it doesn't clear then what constitutes the close of the sale?

interesting! a friend's household is facing similar drama and ur post came up in a BP search.

while attending college first thing i noticed with housing was that

- Males were never allowed into Sororities, not even as visitors to the Sorority house, even just for study groups etc

-Females were increasingly suing their way into being accepted into all-male Fraternities as residents sharing shower/bathroom etc with all those males

to the point now that Fraternities are functionally 'co-ed' even if they're otherwise all-male, yet Sororities remain uniformly no-males allowed not even to visit. Double standard?

that could be the litigious/precedent reasoning why you have agents claiming you should consider females and their mother or daughter in your male household.

heck, even today I still see small rooming houses advertising as 'Christian home' or 'Male Rooms' - but I can't put a finger on where and if it says anywhere in law that small residential private property and private organizations can choose who they share their roof with based even on gender and maybe even holistic beliefs?!

interesting! a friend's household is facing similar drama and ur post came up in a BP search.

while attending college first thing i noticed with housing was that

- Males were never allowed into Sororities, not even as visitors to the Sorority house, even just for study groups etc

-Females were increasingly suing their way into being accepted into all-male Fraternities as residents sharing shower/bathroom etc with all those males

to the point now that Fraternities are functionally 'co-ed' even if they're otherwise all-male, yet Sororities remain uniformly no-males allowed not even to visit. Double standard?

that could be the litigious/precedent reasoning why you have agents claiming you should consider females and their mother or daughter in your male household.

Heck, even today I still see small rooming houses advertising as 'Christian home' or 'Male Rooms' - but I can't put a finger on where and if it says anywhere in law that small residential private property and private organizations can choose who they share their roof with based even on gender and maybe even holistic beliefs?!

Oh dear! did she have Life Alert? did the ambulance come, and is she in a cast?

this gets me a wonderin' whats the best way/wording to avoid being blamed for their actions and consequences as tenants?!

may she get well soon.. how' she doin thus far?

Recent major blackout during Operation Gotham (SF, NYC) was a mini wakeup call to me that chaos would develop overnight if they pull the plug on the grid for any prolonged period.

Is there a market for heading for the hills and going off the grid yet? Or is it like with most all the big bucks to be made in densest populations, hi-tech high risers and megacities is where society is moving towards not away?? Ie, http://www.100resilientcities.org

Cousin in NY is selling investment/income property (detached 2 fam) but in the mean time, found a replacement investment property (detached 2 fam) wants to close on instead of having to wait on closing on the old property first.

Can 1031 does without having to move either property temporarily to a third party/entity temporarily or anything? 

Also, what is the time frame for closing on the 2 deals? Do they have to be within say, the same 180 days. Is there any 45-day limitation, if so, for what?

knowing that it was once a 4 just provides some assurance that zoning likely still allows a 4, but other than that just imagine all the permits, approvals, inspections, fees, etc required and the time and labor/materials it takes nevertheless. 

to me it matters what it is now (not what 'used to be') and so i'd offer 3/4 of what i was going to offer when the agent swore it was a legal 4; i woudn't write an offer contingent on coversion, as it is what it is, a 3fam with an extra walk-in area (that likely belongs to one of the 3 units under current C of O).

http://www.occourts.org/self-help/landlordtenant/preparingyourcomplaint.html

Ecology, conservation (including water & oxygen)  and food/nutrients should be paramount. Thus, a veggy garden, and/or fruit trees and/or some native shelter for native fauna, and doing away with some or all the ornamental high-maintenance groundcover they call 'LAWN' all come to mind.