Any of you who have come to our beautiful San Francisco Bay Area know that San Francisco connects to the East Bay (Berkeley, Oakland, Walnut Creek, etc.) via the Bay Bridge. Of course, its even more famous sister, The Golden Gate, (actually orange) takes people out of San Francisco north to Marin County (long ago described as the land of hot tubs and peacock feathers...I guess you had to be there!). So, this weekend the Bay Bridge is closed for earthquake retrofitting. [If retrofitting is not familiar to you, then you were likely born after 1989 when the Bay Bridge actually broke in two as that earthquake changed our lives for months)
Think of it. This weekend (ALL weekend) a gizillian ton hunk of concrete will first be 'sawed' away from the (hopefully now closed) bridge and freed to go live somewhere else. (sure hope they don't "drop" it, the Bay Area Rapid Transit BART is running just beneath the Bay) In its place, an equally godzilla-sized piece of concrete will be moved in by barge and set in place. Monday morning - POW! thousands of cars will go over this structure and not think another thing about it. Amazing. (I heard there are 7 backup plans for this transition)
I wonder how many of us have clients who know that we thought this carefully about their transaction and how confident they will feel about the way we took care of them after all the inconvenience of buying or selling their home is over. Customer care is a constant in our lives in real estate. Sometimes we forget that we are making it possible for them to drive over their own bridge as they settle into their new communities.
Here's a toast to the reminder. Stay tuned.
PS: Either of these bridges will point you in the direction of CA wine country and Sonoma. Come visit! Buy a house!
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