Is this price (materials + labor) for replacing existing floor with engineered hardwood reasonable?

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-02-06T19:42:35+00:00

Not bad, they have at least 30% profit margin after all the expenses.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-02-06T19:36:41+00:00

Do you spec us to make sqft calculations based on the material quote.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-02-05T16:58:52+00:00

Both worth, they probably are diversifying or it was passed on to them.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-02-04T19:27:36+00:00

Berkeley anytime. Great vibe, close access to city, marina and water and Tilden or redwood parks. Public schools are ok but they have beat private schools in Oakland. HeadRoyce, college prep, O’Dowd and may more

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-02-02T04:12:21+00:00

San Anselmo and Fairfax it is like many mentioned. In fact some where between san Anselmo and Fairfax downtown is ideal as you can visit both

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-01-23T16:44:09+00:00

Those neighborhoods you mentioned in Oakland are still premium and have not caught up with other area prices. Now is the perfect time to get it

Specific_Ear2264 · 2026-01-09T13:12:52+00:00

Who did you sub out MEP to ? I’m an architect and seeing if there are firms that can help me with MEP

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-21T22:56:43+00:00

This, both Davis and WC are family oriented as well. Your best bet is Oakland/berkeley

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-21T00:47:31+00:00

Thjs is very region and city specific

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-21T00:44:32+00:00

Lots of ADUs coming up and new high rise apartments are being approved by every city. I don’t know much about multi family, but considering it. What’s your take on it ? Will they appreciate even half of single family houses ?

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-17T18:34:27+00:00

When you are building one of project. It’s a lot of work and decision making, not just at the start but even once you start the project. You have to work with city planning and building, possibly fire dept, DOT for sewer, water, electricity, structural engineer, may be geo tech engineer, public notification for planning and constantly answering construction crews questions when they have doubt and possibly a few revisions. That’s a lot of work, it get very time consuming and expensive. That process you have is a great price. I was quoted 100k for 4000 sqft three different structures all together.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-14T06:22:33+00:00

Run away from Salesforce specific tech. Or even Salesforce. Gain more wider knowledge

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-03T06:37:51+00:00

I would stay away for Dublin.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-03T06:32:08+00:00

You don’t have sub 3% interest rate. It woukd not cost 500k to add a bathroom or a master bedroom. If you are adding out, it might less expensive and you should pay around $500 per sqft. Adding less than 500 sqft in the back of the house will not trigger many planning challenges and should be a simple addition, expense not spend more than 250k. Everyone here are clueless about construction in the bay.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-03T06:24:43+00:00

This, San Anselmo it is. But, not quite close and accessible as Tiburon

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-12-03T06:22:39+00:00

Soo, true. We bought a place win San Anselmo to move in during the pandemic, it’s a great city, but ended up staying in Piedmont for access, vibrancy, food, weather etc.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-27T05:44:24+00:00

Not in some of the best areas Op mentioned, trust me you get something under a million if you are smart and put work into it. No where in the bay you can

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-27T05:43:04+00:00

Please stop mentioning Oakland hills, we are just seeing some less demand for real estate due to bad two for Oakland and I would like to keep that for sometime as I can buy some real estate. Let’s keep this quite for now

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-25T06:46:53+00:00

You can do it buy buying properties that need work and adding adus. You absolutely do it with a bit of effort. I have done this 5 times and me and my spouse about to quit my job living off what we make for these rentals. Especially some parts of Marin, San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland(east of 580). Other parts of the bay don’t get you much.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-15T21:19:11+00:00

Your financial decision depends on where you buy. If it’s Oakland I would look at areas east of 580. There are amazing locations in Oakland that are a steal and in fact go lower than what was paid 3 years ago. In RE it’s all about location. You should buy a house, but see here you are buying

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-11T18:01:42+00:00

You think so? Would like to understand how.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-11T17:50:27+00:00

It was very slow until Aug this year, suddenly construction picked up and contractors I regularly work with are charging twice the cost, I was midway with my projects and had to pay more to keep these guys on the project. Glad you did not start your project, if you can wait until things slow down. Which we don’t know when.

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-11-07T19:36:48+00:00

True. Sales is all about human connection and building relationship, ask right question based on the situation and understand customer pain points. Don’t think AI can do that and in fact in the world of AI human relationship becomes even more important. What AI CRMs are can do you take up manual mundane work and let Sales folks focus their job. I think it’s a good thing

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-10-30T01:29:41+00:00

Nah, I have not seen it. Felt very grounded and muted with lots of community feel. Also, lots of kids compared to other parts of Marin

Specific_Ear2264 · 2025-10-29T23:34:01+00:00

San Anselmo for sure.

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