Basement is unfinished and split into two parts(one per apartment), but would like to connect it, set up part of it as a workshop room, laundry room, wine storage area, and possibly media room. 

I've seen two separate references to this house talking about how it had a wooden stockade built around it, in the mid 1700's sometime, so that people from the surrounding area could come there to take refuge from indian attack. 

I know the guys at Monarch Wine Shop downtown and I'm a member at Redux...I'm sure one of them would let us set up. 

I had to get over the feeling that every tenant is going to notice all the things i didn't improve as soon as they walk in.I recently had my triplex appraised and while doing the walk-through with the appraiser we started talking about the old wooden windows and how i wanted to get them all replaced with new vinyl windows (this is in a C neighborhood).

They give points for arcades, movie theaters, number of bars, cost of wine, and time of last call.

This is not a reduced relative clause, as in, "I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith." from Mary Poppins fame.

Sacramento's median home price is $350k so you're not getting much there... but Stockton's median home price is $270k, so you can afford nearly half the homes for sale there.You can't go Northwest to Napa and the rest of the wine country, you'll pay the same as Bay Area if not more.

:D You could just go to an art supply store and buy poster board or foam board in white or yellow and buy wooden stakes at home depot, lowes or somewhere like that.

One of my mentors and business partners who was and is very successful in the Wine industry in Napa...

This post caught my eye so I'll follow it for any developments -- I was just looking at a website of coastal properties for sale in Gallicia (Spain) and having fantasies of bucolic days of warm sunshine, wine and tapas.