Interesting backstory[1] on how Kenton found the space: > Housing in this area is ridiculously expensive, though, and even after four or five years I had troub

Interesting backstory[1] on how Kenton found the space: > Housing in this area is ridiculously expensive, though, and even after four or five years I had trouble finding anything I could afford. There are no empty lots here, so I'd have to tear something down, and even a run-down house in a bad neighborhood costs $450k in this area. I didn't even bother looking in Palo Alto -- it was way out of my range. That is, until something really lucky happened. A commercial establishment bordering an older residential area of town had some extra land that they weren't using. In 2009, at the low point of the recession, they put this sliver of land up for sale. I was lucky enough to look at exactly the time they did this, and with the help of a loan I was able to pick it up for a price I could actually afford. [1]: http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-optimized-house.html http://kentonsprojects.blogspot.com/2011/12/lan-party-optimi...