John M. Scott's Blog

May Flowers in San Francisco I know, more about my back yard here in West Portal. But every day I am amazed when I stand at my home office door. Subtle changes. More purple flowers. The thing is, except for the huge maderense geranium that is propping itself to stand with its own leaves, all the ...

Digital Photo Files = Glossy Prints I take a lot of digital photos, keep them on my computer, in the cloud, email them to friends. post on facebook, upload to web sites, use in marketing...... But once in awhile I need glossy prints I can give to friends. Well I discovered today it just got easie...

Enjoy San Francisco's Mediterranean Climate Almost 2 months ago I wrote a post about one of my favorite discoveries here in San Francisco. One day many years ago I was walking thru Golden Gate Park and found a swarm of beautiful flowers that went on for at least a block. They're called Geranium M...

Green Slime Creek Follow Up, San Francisco, CA Follow Up, or FU as one of my Architecture / Planning clients would write in her emails. I usually got quite a chuckle about her FU emails ;-) For those of you who may not have read my previous post about this subject, you can find it HERE. The Green...

Green Slime Creek, San Francisco, CA It looks like a tranquil picture, doesn't it? The steps on the left lead up to the mid-level, and then steps located roughly up behind the left green chair lead up to the top level. You can see my rear neighbor's deck on the left up above. I know it's slightly...

The Bodyguard - The Story of Love and a Realtor's Passion A while ago I was browsing through movies on Netflix. I added 'The Bodyguard' to my list. That was before Whitney Houston's death.  Today the DVD showed up in the mail.  And all the memories ensued. This isn't a happy story, but it's all a...

Ocean Beach - San Francisco It's a beautiful warm spring day in San Francisco. I visited my clients and friends at my latest listing in San Francisco: 2186 43rd Ave. today. They're a wonderful couple in their early 80s, and are selling their home of almost 50 years to move to Atria, an assisted l...

A Beautiful Day in Outer Parkside Today was a good day to visit my new listing in Outer Parkside and put up a For Sale sign. Usually we have a company plant a post but in this case it is easier just to mount it on the front gate. I was halfway there and realized I didn't bring my camera. But wait...

Thunder and Lightning, Oh My! We're having thunderstorms in San Francisco tonight. It's the kind where you see the lightning, and then wait to hear the thunder rumble through the area. Reminds me of the movie Poltergeist where they were counting the seconds between the thunder and the light. This...

Old Fashioned Marketing - The Newsletter. An elderly couple walked in to my office this afternoon. They looked familiar. One of my other agents asked them if he could help them - they asked for Mr. Scott. They asked me if I remembered them, and I remembered they lived next to a listing I had out ...