New Listing: 1311 Baker Street
February 3, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
Open Houses:
Saturday Feb 4th, 1-3pm & Sunday Feb 5th, 1-3pm
Spacious top-floor Victorian condo in a two unit building. This home is loaded with old world charm – high ceilings, original detailing, crown molding and wood floors. The gracious floor plan includes a sun-filled living room with built in bookshelves and decorative fireplace. Double parlor pocket doors connect through to the over sized dining room. There are two bedrooms plus an office or nursery. The updated eat-in kitchen opens into a large utility/laundry room with direct access to an outdoor deeded deck with room for a barbeque and dining table. Landscaped shared yard. One car garage parking in tandem and an abundance of extra storage.
Walkscore of 91 = A Walker’s Paradise, plus great MUNI access.
HOA dues $300 per month; Built in 1900 (per tax records); 1242 square feet (per tax records)
The Essentials:
- Top Floor Condominium
- Two Bedrooms and one Bathroom
- Original Detailing Throughout
- Eat-in Kitchen
- In-unit Laundry Room
- Outdoor deeded deck and Landscaped shared yard
- One car garage parking in tandem
- Abundance of extra storage
Active – $689,000
Chinese New Year Parade
February 1, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
2012 is the Year of the Dragon! This year’s Chinese New Year Parade takes place on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 5:15pm-8pm
Did you know that the Chinese New Year is actually a two week Spring festival celebrated for over 5,000 years in China. The San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration originated in the 1860′s during the Gold Rush day and is now the largest Asian event in North America. The celebration includes two major fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, and culminates with The Chinese New Year Parade.
The 201 feet long Golden Dragon is always featured at the end of the parade as the grand finale and will be accompanied by over 600,000 firecrackers! It takes a team of 100 men and women to carry the Golden Dragon! Rain or shine, come watch the parade!
SF Neighborhood Guide
January 27, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
San Francisco is not a large city in terms of population. It has nearly 800,000 residents according to the 2000 census figures. However, it is a very dense city with 16,632 residents per square mile. In the U.S. this density is second only to New York.
The different cultures that formed San Francisco, now flourish giving the city many unique and varying neighborhoods. Exploring the city’s neighborhoods is a great way to get to know and enjoy the city. It is also an important factor to consider when deciding where in the city to buy a home. Test your knowledge – how well do you know your city?
Click here for a great guide to the San Francisco Neighborhoods.
Bi-Rite Market on the Web
January 24, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
The New York Times Small Business Section ran a story recently on Bi-Rite Market and the redesign of their Web Site. Bi-Rite Market is something of an institution here in San Francisco. A grocery store with a huge and faithful following, it doesn’t see itself as just a grocery store. People actually line up on the street to get inside. The reviews for the store on Yelp are overwhelmingly positive. The homepage on the store’s Web site proclaims, “Bi-Rite is a neighborhood market, feeding our community with love, passion & integrity.”
Sam Mogannam, who owns both the market and a nearby creamery, wanted his Web sites to capture the spirit of his stores. “We wanted the experience of logging on to biritemarket.com and biritecreamery.com to be as similar to the experience of walking through the door of our market and creamery as we could,” Mr. Mogannam said.
Although the market has been around since the 1940s, its first Web site wasn’t introduced until 2003. Last year, Mr. Mogannam invested $18,000 in a redesign, hoping to solve problems with both the site’s design and its back-end administration. “We’d had a site for several years but it was static and difficult to update,” he said. “Making our site more dynamic was the No. 1 priority in creating a new biritemarket.com.”
The NYTimes asked readers to take a look at the site and at Bi-Rite’s social media efforts. Here’s what you had to say, along with my take and Mr. Mogannam’s response. http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/category/site-analysis/
49ers in NFC Championship game!
January 22, 2012 by Doors Of Your Life · Leave a Comment
San Francisco 49ers, after a decade of irrelevance, are in the NFC championship game, on the brink of the Super Bowl. Welcome back, San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers will play the NY Giants today at 3:30pm PST at Candlestick park for the NFC Championship. The winner will advance to the Superbowl on Sunday, Feb. 5th.
