First off, let’s get this condo conversion stuff out of the way:

Ticket sales for the San Francisco 2007 condo lottery will terminate at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, January 26, 2007. They are for sale at the DPW offices at 875 Stevenson, Room 460. Cost is $150 per building.

Please check carefully to see if your building qualifies for condo conversion—

you may also want to weigh the odds of winning against the cost. Some say it can be as little as 3% for those applying for the first time. Most of the guidelines for qualifying are in the application for tickets . There is also a wealth of information about SF condo conversions and TIC ownership in general on Andy Sirkin’s website Andy is an attorney and local expert on both topics.

Free Brown Bag Talks

Throughout 2007, the SF Department of Building Inspection is holding Brown Bag Lunch Talks on the third Thursday of each month at 1660 Mission Street, Room 2001.

You bring your lunch and they’ll provide the coffee and drinks.

The topics mix up fun stuff with the kind of stuff you should know about.

In the “dull but necessary” category is “Roofing and Re-roofing” in February and “Simple and Inexpensive Home Earthquake Improvements” in August.

More interesting (at least to me) is a summertime field trip to a glass and glazing shop and a fall visit to a green office remodel.

They are also offering “How to Plan a Home Remodel” and “Home Kitchen Design and Construction.” Click here for a full schedule.

Also buried in the BBI site are online videos of past Brown Bag Lunch Talks,

including a 55 minute piece on “Legalizing In-Law Units and Rooms” and a 58 minute clip on “Fences and Retaining Wall Rules.”

Thanks for your Referrals!

A lot of my business comes by referral from terrific Realtors who work areas outside of San Francisco.

I network with real estate professionals all over the country. If you ever need the names of good agents outside of San Francisco, please call me. I only recommend the cream of the crop.

Some of the great agents I’ve met and worked with in the past year are: Leslie Blevins from Coldwell Banker in Davis; Julie Gardner of The Grubb Company in Oakland; Pat Colburn of Kane and Associates in Alameda; Catherine Bierwith and Mark Playsted of Harbor Bay Real Estate in Alameda; Pacita Damicali of Gallagher and Lindsey in Alameda; and Teresa Ellis of Keller Williams in Oakland/Piedmont.

I love hearing from all of you and learning about real estate markets across the country.

Please don’t hesitate to call if you want swap information or learn how to start your own local “Buzz.”

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