My Uncle Jim moved out to California in the 1960s.
- He was an aspiring hippie, who wanted to get in on the dying days of the Free Love movement.
He was also an enterprising pot dealer, who wound up doing very well for himself out here. After moving to Canada briefly to dodge the draft, he moved back and settled down in San Francisco. Even back then it was a trendy, upscale place to live, although the property values have skyrocketed in the years since. It’s because of Uncle Jim that I was able to get my foot in the door of the San Francisco real estate market. Back in the 60s property values in the Bay Area were a fraction of what they are today, so he bought several properties to use as rentals. Over the years he would pay cash for houses and apartment buildings. When he was ready to retire he started to sell off his San Francisco real estate holdings, and allowed me to serve as the agent. This provided me with a great deal of hands-on experience with San Francisco real estate, first with buyers, and later with other sellers besides Uncle Jim. Currently I would say that the San Francisco real estate market is as lucrative as it has ever been. Without the inside help of my Uncle, I never would have been able to get an experience with cash home buyers for property in San Francisco. Uncle Jim took all the cash for houses he had made and moved out to a tropical island to retire.