The recession may have done a number on your credit score, even if it spurred you to reform spendthrift ways and cut up your credit cards. For many, the drops have come at the same time that lenders have tightened their standards and demanded higher scores to get the best interest rates.
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· Wishing away renters now that buyers are back [NYT]
· Still trying to save Hugo Hotel furniture art [SFGate]
· Legislature restores transit assistance funding [Transbay]
· Architect’s backstage tour of the Oscars set [Fast Company]
Both sides of the debate on the Redwood City Saltworks megaproject are recruiting: former San Francisco mayor Art Agnos says he was approached nearly simultaneously by enviro group Save the Bay through former supes prez Aaron Peskin, and by the developer, DMB Associates. Agnos did a little digging, and concludes the 12,000-unit project would be “the most sustainable development in the history of the state, and perhaps the country.” Bold words! [City Insider, previously]
A bedroom door: That’s what Meghan Galewski and James Gonzalez wanted most.
Renters were a godsend when the market went into hibernation. But now that buyers are stirring, some owners wish their tenants would just go away.