More Vacation, back in February
It was Bear Rondevou that weekend but we almost didn't notice. We did nothing with the 'special weekend' except go to the Lone Star and not know anyone. I will say that the last time I was in San Francisco it looked like a young city, or it seemed that all the people I saw running around the Castro were so young. This weekend it seemed just the opposite, everybody looked my age. I'm sure this was because of the Bear invasion.
One thing that Steve and I got to do was visit with our former next door neighbors Judith and Herbert. It was wonderful to see them. We stopped by their home and they treated us to an elegant dinner in Glen Park. We also saw their Construction project that was completed since I was there last. It looked Great. A new garage with an apartment over it. They kindly made me an offer that I may take them up on. They said next time I am in the City, I may stay in their apt. I'd love that, and just may do it.
They had quite a time with this project. The woman that so out bid all the other buyers and paid us a fortune to purchase our former house/my home art project, turns out to be a Republican't, and a vile one at that. She thinks she now owns the whole block after what she paid. She has her gardeners "clean-up" yards that are not hers, meaning cut down things that she does not care for or trim them if they may someday block her view. She took out a very hard to get silver tree that neighbors paid me to put in their yard. Next she put up a stink when Judith and Herbert started their construction. She tried to block them, saying it would encroach on her and it looked bad for them at one point but it served her good when Judith and Herbert changed their plans to accommodate her and ended up with a much better structure that is actually taller then the first plans and actually do encroach on her but 'are to code' and approved, so fuck off. She brought this on..... I do have to apologise to them for giving them a monster to live next to. I got to profit from my first house at the peak of the market and I feel she may never sell it for what she paid me, but at what price is the question? To let loose this 'evil' in our quite, liberal, little, San Francisco enclave.
WOW IS ME!
Here is my little gold mine BEFORE THE MAKE OVER. That's my jeep too. Judith's house is to the right. I can't believe this little house did me so well. The blue grey house on the left is world beat musician Danny Haines, before said 'Silver tree', now gone.
One thing that Steve and I got to do was visit with our former next door neighbors Judith and Herbert. It was wonderful to see them. We stopped by their home and they treated us to an elegant dinner in Glen Park. We also saw their Construction project that was completed since I was there last. It looked Great. A new garage with an apartment over it. They kindly made me an offer that I may take them up on. They said next time I am in the City, I may stay in their apt. I'd love that, and just may do it.
They had quite a time with this project. The woman that so out bid all the other buyers and paid us a fortune to purchase our former house/my home art project, turns out to be a Republican't, and a vile one at that. She thinks she now owns the whole block after what she paid. She has her gardeners "clean-up" yards that are not hers, meaning cut down things that she does not care for or trim them if they may someday block her view. She took out a very hard to get silver tree that neighbors paid me to put in their yard. Next she put up a stink when Judith and Herbert started their construction. She tried to block them, saying it would encroach on her and it looked bad for them at one point but it served her good when Judith and Herbert changed their plans to accommodate her and ended up with a much better structure that is actually taller then the first plans and actually do encroach on her but 'are to code' and approved, so fuck off. She brought this on..... I do have to apologise to them for giving them a monster to live next to. I got to profit from my first house at the peak of the market and I feel she may never sell it for what she paid me, but at what price is the question? To let loose this 'evil' in our quite, liberal, little, San Francisco enclave.
WOW IS ME!
Here is my little gold mine BEFORE THE MAKE OVER. That's my jeep too. Judith's house is to the right. I can't believe this little house did me so well. The blue grey house on the left is world beat musician Danny Haines, before said 'Silver tree', now gone.
posted by Rocko at 9:45 PM
3 Comments:
So glad you have done well for yourself :) Do you have any AFTER THE MAKEOVER photos?
I've been looking and can't find them. I can do a google map search and see it from the street view, but where are my pictures? I have no idea.
Yikes, Darrell- sorry that happened with your former house. I wish people would explore neighborhoods to see if it's their kind of neighborhood before they move in. Racism and other "isms" aside, I thing people really need to be sure they live in an area where the ideas they have will not impose on others to the degree that they do things like these people have!
Glad you sold it at the height of the market, though- a good move, at a good time.
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