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A warm welcome to you both, Amy & Alison :)

It's Wednesday and I have a question - more specifically, I have a dumb question. One that I think could be answered here.

Dig: I've never owned a piece of real estate; and aside from a fabulous space back in New Orleans, I haven't had a fixed address in eight-odd years. Since moving to SF, however, I've developed a desire for relative permanence.

That's the long way 'round the barn, I know, but I wanted to know how square footage is calculated. I'm looking at moving into my second (!) apartment and I'm trying to determine if it'll have the space needed for the layout I had in mind.

i'm taking my little sister to portland to check out colleges- any of you pacific northwesterner have any ideas of what we should definitely not miss while we're there?

thanks!

In case anyone is curious, today is my last day in SF; I've been here for the past 3 days, looking at apartments. I believe I've found the perfect place for myself, my boyfriend, and our cat in an outer Richmond studio +; I'll know tomorrow (Monday) if it will be officially ours :D

Good luck Victoria! Finding the perfect place can be really tough!

Outer Richmond? Very nice! Lots of Asian restaurants and some cute stuff within walking distance.

Nic, the square footage should be basically wall-to-wall within the livable space of the apartment. This includes closets, kitchens, and bathrooms, but not balconies, common hallways, or unfinished crawl space.

At small-apartment size, the layout makes such a huge difference that the square footage number is only a starting point, though.

ali,

what sort of "don't miss" stuff are you looking for? I'd be happy to offer suggestions for Portland.

regards,
trillium

hey trillium, i'm not sure. all of my friends suggested bars... and my sister is 16, so that's out. we're going to go to the saturday market in the morning, but we have some free time on friday night and saturday, so if you have any ideas, please let me know (alison at curbed dot com)!

Victoria E, were you able to get the Richmond apartment? In any case, best of luck to you w/ the move to SF!

Hi everyone and thank you so much for your support :) I got back to CT today and got a call from Karl (my hopefully new landlord) while I was running around with errands. He said that he wanted to talk with me about a few things, so I need to call him back ASAP

ali,

I've sent you an email with some suggestions.

regards,
trillium

trillium, i'd like to publicly state that you are AWESOME! thank you so much for all of your suggestions, my sister and i are psyched for our trip!