Hey, if you’ve got the money, I suppose now’s the time to spend it on real estate — prices are low, right? Low like $6.5M, which is what Frances Bean Cobain’s looking to spend on a SoHo penthouse.

It’s not every day a 16-year-old shows up with a broker to check out a $6.5 million penthouse condo. But that’s what Frances Bean Cobain did recently when she stopped by 115 Mercer St. to peruse its glassy duplex with 2,500 square feet of terraces.

She “seemed very sweet,” a source said of the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. “She said that she was looking for her mother.”

The unit has three bedrooms, 3½ baths and a glass atrium. We’re told that a potential buyer of legal age, designer Marc Jacobs, has also seen the property.

When I was 16, my mom sent me on errands too. As soon as I got my drivers license, I had to do things like return the movies to Blockbuster, pick up milk, drop off the dry-cleaning, take the cat to the vet, and check out $7M pieces of Manhattan real estate. So annoying!

You know, mad props go out to Frances Bean Cobain for even being alive at this point, let alone appearing on red carpets with some sense of composure. She’s really quite a striking young lady, and I hope her path in life is smoother than either of her parents’.

And for godsake, girl, SMILE!

At the Twilight premiere in LA.

Aw, how sweet.

Courtney Love threw little Frances Bean an “R.I.P. Childhood”-themed sweet sixteen party.

Courtney Love spent over $323,000 on her daughter’s birthday party.

The Hole singer – who is the widow of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain – spared no expense in ushering Frances Bean into adulthood at her ‘RIP childhood’ themed 16th birthday.

The event – held at Los Angeles’ House of Blues restaurant – saw Frances sporting a dress previously worn by her father Cobain at a performance at Reading Festival.

Courtney arrived in a dress worn by actress Angelica Huston in creepy comedy movie ‘The Addams Family’.

I like that there’s the obvious implication here that Frances Bean had a childhood. You know, those carefree days of splashing around in the pool and eating watermelon and running around giggling and barefoot and playing Twister and guessing games like “20 Questions” and “Do you think Mom needs to go to the hospital?”

Courtney, Frances Bean had her “R.I.P. Childhood” party long, long ago, and you footed the bill that time, too.

“I get it, I really do. but at the same time it’s creepy. These people are fascinated by me, but I haven’t done anything,” she says. “If you’re a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I’m not my parents … People need to wait until I’ve done something valid with my life.”

Frances Bean Cobain, in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, discussing public interest in her life.

So yesterday I ran some photos of a person I believed to be Frances Bean Cobain, with Courtney Love. I also ran some older photos of Frances Bean. You guys made the fair complaint that the person in the main picture looked nothing like the person in the thumbnails.

I emailed the photo agency to ask them if they were sure about the ID, and they said they were. They also sent me the photo you see in the screen shot above, which ran on People’s website. This is obviously the same girl as you saw in my post from yesterday, and People has identified her as Frances Bean, as well. I know this girl does not look like the older pictures of Frances Bean, but People does have better fact-checkers than I do. (Mine is my cat.)

I know you guys said you thought the girl was Love’s new bass player, Patrizia. Does anyone have a link to a picture of her? Let’s try and nail down who this chick is, if she’s not Frances.

Update: Thanks to commenter Melanie for the picture below. Yeah, this is her bassist, not Francis Bean. I guess even People was wrong.