The New Real Book Pd F 3500' title='The New Real Book Pd F 3500' />Rich Bay Area Residents Pissed After Two Genius Investors Buy Their Street. An enterprising couple from the South Bay was just able to purchase a neighborhood street from an online auction because of an accounting error, The San Francisco Chroniclereports. Now the neighborhood is worried about the ways the couple might try to cash in on the purchase. The couple, Tina Lam and Michael Cheng, who run real estate firm Archers Capital, bought Presidio Terrace, a one block oval street just northwest of downtown San Francisco. It is surrounded by multimillion dollar mansions heres the Google Street View, and up until 1. Game Maker Walking Animation Sprite. That is, a few decades ago, Tina and Michael couldnt buy a house on Presidio Terrace. Now they own it, and they might start charging residents for parking, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The reason why Cheng and Lam were able to pick up the street has to do with an idiotic accounting error involving a cheap annual tax bill, as the local paper reports The couples purchase appears to be the culmination of a comedy of errors involving a 1. Its something that the owners of all 1. San Francisco are obliged to do. The attorney for the homeowners association says the reason why the bill hadnt been paid was because, since the 1. The result of decades worth of the city sending bills to the wrong address tallied up to 9. San Francisco decided to try to get back by putting the street and its sidewalks up for auction about two years ago. Cheng, a real estate investor, and his wife were looking for opportunities at the time, saw the street for sale, and jumped on it, dropping 9. The residents were pissed, and petitioned the Board of Supervisors to nullify the sale. One resident explained to The San Francisco Chronicle the shock that they, the citys wealthy, could be so rudely taken advantage of I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks. How dare they, indeed. But Cheng could make cash on this, saying of the 1. We could charge a reasonable rent on it. The San Francisco Chronicle mentions that the couple wouldnt sell spots solely to residents of the neighborhood, saying And if the Presidio Terrace residents arent interested in paying for parking privileges, perhaps some of their neighbors outside the gates in a city where parking is at a premium would be. Well played. I called up Michael Cheng, and he told me over our brief conversation that he and his wife were just looking to buy any land in San Francisco. After looking at 4. Presidio Terrace. Learn about the latest consumer electronics Sony has to offer, discover features of our products and find the ones which would suit your needs. Look at this sad, lonely 2017 Honda Civic Type R, in what looks to be a nice neighborhood in suburban South Carolina. But not everything here is nice. No, in fact. And while, right now, he has no immediate plans to sell the street he says hes just looking to understand the parcel, he did say charging for parking could be an option. Its no surprise that residents are pissed that they might have to pay for parking on the private street just outside of their homes. But at the same time, keep your damn mailing address up to datethis is like, the most pathetic financial error ever, right up there with forgetting to update an autopay after a credit card expires. These are the basics, people. Correction This story has been updated to clarify that the issue was with the homeowners associations accountants mailing address, not the citys. 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The host, Huw Edwards, sat at his desk, patiently awaiting his cue. But the cue was not coming. Instead, the breaking news graphic came up again. B roll footage from random segments randomly played and all the while we kept seeing Edwards at his desk, deep in thought. Around the two minute mark, the camera slowly zoomed in on Edwards in a moment that felt like a climax. HNJm.jpg' alt='The New Real Book Pd F 3500' title='The New Real Book Pd F 3500' />But no, it snapped back to a wide shot and the idle host continued to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. Paul Royall, the shows editor, tells The. Guardian that a technical system crash occurred just as the show was about to begin and a backup system had to be initialized. Another glitch occurred later on Good Morning Britain that was blamed on the system overheating. If youre wondering why that lovely slow zoom occurred, its because the BBC uses a robotic camera system. In a blog post about the cameras, the network explains the two types of cameras it uses Furios, which are fixed to a dolly and run on tracks, limiting their movement to side to side, and Shotokus, which are mounted on three wheels and can move freely across the floor. They can either be pre programmed or controlled directly by a person. For his part, Edwards came out of this looking good. He didnt get caught saying anything stupid and he didnt pick his nose. He later told Radio 4 that he realized something was up about 4. Viewers loved it, tweeting their approval with messages like, Watching Huw Edwards do nothing on BBC news is kinda absorbing, like a lava lamp. And love it they should. Watching TV personalities when they dont think theyre on the air is always fascinating. See it in full below.