John M. Scott's Blog

Signs of the Season, in San Francisco Sitting here in my home office today, Sunday December 23, 2012, thinking of recent events and the Winter Solstice and how the world didn't end. Random thoughts.... The office Christmas party was enjoyable, lots of food and wine, and the champagne bottle that ...

San Francisco Market Focus Report – December 2012 The December issue of Market Focus Report, issued by the San Francisco Association of Realtors has the San Francisco housing market dealing with month-after-month of low housing stock in 2012. But it has not stopped a wave of motivated buyers from...

Save the Mortgage Interest Deduction! There have been many news reports about the "Fiscal Cliff." (Only recently eclipsed by the tragedy in Newtown, CT.) Many of those reports speculate that a change in the long standing policy that allows US Homeowners to deduct mortgage interest payments from t...

New Streetlights in West Portal Village Good news! PG&E is replacing all Streetlights currently on a high voltage series loop between Ulloa, Claremont and Granville with standard multiple circuits. This current loop as well as the streetlights are over 80 years old. The new streetlights will be ...

World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV, and 2.5 million were infected last year alone. In the US, the CDC says there is an alarming rise in the spread of HIV among teenagers and young adults, with 1,000 new infections each month. HIV is one of the leading...