San Francisco Property History and What Is This "3R Report"?

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The "3R Report" is the Report of Residential Building Record, (get it? 3 R's). Sellers are required to include this report in a residential sale, unless the building is brand spanking new.

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Here and here are some comments on the 3R and what it means to home buyers and sellers. Here is the San Francisco Property Information Map, which is super cool and useful for your property history research, and here is a place to search for permit and complaint information related to a particular address. The San Francisco Public Library also has helpful resources, and occasionally they hold workshops on researching buildings.

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Isn't modern life wonderful?  Marin is less centralized, I'll save that for another post.

Settlers and Location Location Location

Inspired by today's open house on the sunny hidden culdesac of Houston Street in North Beach (er, technically Russian Hill), I am thinking about microclimate and historic settlement.

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Did you know that Washington Square in North Beach was Jauna Briones's corral? She spent much of her youth in the El Polin Springs area. She and her husband moved to that funny little indent in the Lyon Wall on the east end of the Presidio- when her husband proved abusive, the resourceful Jauna moved to the east to farm in the sheltered valley near Yerba Buena Cove (which was closer to the water at that point) and later moved her ranch to the sunny climes of the Los Altos/Palo Alto area, which were more suited to ranching once the gold rush hit.

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To find the friendliest local microclimates, one can often look to the very earliest buildings. Once the boom and bust cycle hit San Francisco, real estate speculation encouraged construction beyond the most salubrious locations, but since the earliest settlers (unlike the soldiers in the Presidio) had the choice, they chose sunny sheltered relatively level spots near water. At Point Reyes, where real estate speculation was stopped by creation of the national park, you'll find the old homesteads, and remnants of homesteads, in beautiful sheltered dells.

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