Ian Berke Real Estate

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National Trust for Historic Preservation : the major national preservation organization, founded in 1949 and headquartered in Washington, DC, has fought many important preservation battles, alone and in partnership with local preservation organizations. The NTHP has a strong education and advocacy role, including support for legislation at all levels of government to help preserve our built environment. The NTHP has local offices in many major cities, including San Francisco.

He trained and worked as a civil engineer, restored three Victorian homes, and has been an active leader in neighborhood preservation groups. Ian has been a real estate broker here for over 25 years, and has a proven track record of high quality service, careful negotiation, savvy marketing, and satisfied clients. As a realtor, he has long had a policy of not simultaneously representing a buyer and a seller in the same transaction, even though legal in California.

I love serious films, and try to see at least one a week, always in a theater. I dislike seeing films at home for many reasons, particularly because films often lose much of their power when seen on the small screen. But in a theater you are entirely immersed in the scene. The theater experience, a communal experience, as opposed to the usual solitary experience of watching something at home, is unique, and often powerful in itself. The collective experience of sharing feelings, knowing that your neighbor is probably crying at the same time and for the same reasons as you, seems powerful and helps fulfill our inherent need to be social. Further, a theater experience is out of one's control; you can't stop the film to go to the bathroom or get more to eat. It is much more like life, which proceeds regardless of your needs or wishes. Writing is difficult for me, so that I only write about films that I really loved. And I need to write within a day or two after seeing the film, which means that unless I had the time then, I didn't do a review. So what you are reading is always a combination of my loving a film and having the time to write.

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