I ask this because I lucked out on a house I recently purchased in San Francisco. The housing market in the city is cutthroat and street parking is a musical chairs of memorizing all the neighborhood street cleaning no parking schedules.

The listing didn't say the house was on a private street. It wasn't until our offer was accepted that we got the property lot lines showing we would be also getting an easement for the street. So now we "own" the 24 foot portion of the street and sidewalk, allowing an extra parking spot that is exclusive to us.

I believe if this was in the listing, we might have been outbid past our budget because parking is a premium in the city.…