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This isn’t newsworthy but I found it interesting to recent discover that The Meritage, the first building I bought at in 2006, cost $5.8 million to build. 47 units totaling 45,000 square feet. Or $128/square foot. I forget what the average sales $/square foot was but I paid something like $450/square foot (yes, yes I [...]

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I’m down in San Francisco enjoy some beautiful weather but a few listings finally caught my eye…
The Crawford
I’ve always had a soft spot for The Crawford and a new listing is now available. #401 is $589,000 for 1,150 1 bed place. Here’s the kitchen:

The DeLorges
After their opening party The Delorges, at 325 Harvard, has put [...]

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Tonight I went to The Meritage’s annual meeting. It’s been the first home owners meeting that I’ve attended. Of the 48 owners fifteen or so showed up and another ten or so assigned proxies so we had quorum.
Since most of the issues discussed are likely issues faced by many new HOAs and home owners [...]

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Alright, no more silly exchanges in the comments! I’m too busy enjoying the sunny weather in San Francisco to keep deleting all the off topic comments. Let’s keep the discussion focused on condos. If you want to stray off topic or want to talk about something else please use the forums. To get us back [...]

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Meritage
There has been some discussion of re-sales in the forum. One unit, #401, went STI, #306 popped up on the weekend at $487/sq ft and #203 was just listed today at $490/sq ft.
Monique Lofts
A cool unit at the Monique Lofts just came on the market, 1505 11th Ave #405 – $599,000, 934 square feet, $641/sq [...]

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In order to break up the work of writing about my Meritage unit I’m going to do it in parts:

Part 1: What did I buy and why?
Part 2: Photos
Part 3: Defects/annoyances with the unit
Part 4: Renovations I want to perform
Part 5: Why I tried to fire and then sue my real estate agent

Why I bought [...]

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Merrill Place
The listing that really caught my eye this week is 97 S Jackson St #402. It just hit the market and looks to be a very nice 1,354 square foot, two bedroom corner unit loft downtown. At $428/square foot it is pretty reasonably priced at $579,000. Check out the photos!

Seaboard
Another neat unit hit the [...]

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Yesterday I signed my docs with the very accommodating Melanie at Wells Fargo in Bellevue and today after a visit to the bank and a few more signatures with my awesome mortgage broker, Warren, I met up with on-site agent extraordinaire, Javila, and got my keys! Thank-you all!
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I did a second walk through of my Meritage unit today (#504). The unit still has a broken window and the range hasn’t been installed. They did take care of all the paint details from my last walk through. I’m still disappointed with the cabinet door’s alignments, but maybe I’m just super picky that way [...]

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My move in to the Meritage has been delayed again. I was supposed to move in first on February 18th, then February 26th and now, who knows. The date is question because the elevator has not yet passed inspection. Hopefully this gets resolved before the end of the month.
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