Friday, February 22, 2008
We're buying that house?
So the house that we bought was only 100 feet from our apartment. We never even thought of buying a home in the Bay Area since home prices are at a premium. But once we saw the potential in this house and we already lived on the street, we put in our offer.Inside the house was mostly original fixtures and some things the sellers tried to update (that we would have prefered that they didn't) but overall, we felt like this was would be the perfect home for us! A 1925 bungalow, one bedroom, one bath with a yard.
The Orgins of Moving across the Bay
We ended up moving to Emeryville, CA in March 2007 for two reasons: I got a job in Emeryville and we could not find a decent 2 bedroom in San Francisco (with a a dog and a cat) for under $2,800. We started looking in the Berkeley and Oakland (Rockridge) and stumbled upon the Green City Lofts on 41st and Adeline (one of the first all-green housing projects in the US).
We lived in a huge 2 bedroom / 2 bath / 2 floor loft for a few months and loved the neighborhood (15 mins to downtown SF, next to Oakland and Berkeley, Ikea - ha - and a very decent residential area).
We had planned to live at GCL for a few years when we decided to look at the house down the block that was for sale: one of the only surviving houses on 41st street (the other houses were run down and scheduled for renovation as part of a huge condo/housing complex on the street. We never expected to buy a home but wanted to see inside. Our landlord was also a real estate agent and convinced us to look.
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