The journal
Notes from the west side.
What's actually happening in these neighborhoods — what sold, what didn't, what a permit really costs. Written when there's something worth saying.
The market · June 19, 2026
The nine-day sale on Fairmount, and what it actually taught me
A Glen Park mid-century went into contract nine days after listing, over asking, to the second family through the door. Everyone wants the lesson to be about pricing. It wasn't.
Izu Elechi · 4 min read
How I work · July 11, 2026
Why every room on this site comes in five decors
Staging shows you one person's taste and an empty room shows you nothing. There's a third option, and it needs to be explained honestly before anyone gets the wrong idea about what they're looking at.
Neighborhoods · July 24, 2026
What the fog actually does to a house
Everyone west of Twin Peaks jokes about the fog. Fewer people know what thirty years of it does to window sashes, paint, and the crawl space under a 1920s Sunset bungalow.