Monthly Archives: April 2009
Realtors versus the MLS and the Real Estate Board
“Disclosure” in the context of online advertising means (i) advertising that contains the firm’s licensed name, the city and state in which the firm’s main office is located and the jurisdiction in which the firm holds a license or (ii) advertising that contains the licensee name, the name of the firm with which the licensee is active, the city and state in which the licensee’s office is located and the jurisdiction in which the licensee holds a license.
…In the age of the long-tail and the insatiable urge and demand for more information, we’re limiting the description of the properties we are marketing to 500 characters of text – no links, just text. (text is boring and so 1999 ) For now, the best we can do is try to educate the public to do their due diligence … tell them to Google the address … and do our very best to ensure that one of our pages comes up … in this case, the number one result is Trulia (get that, MLS committees? Continue reading
Geobarn at Bundoran Farm
If you’re not paying attention to what’s happening at Bundoran Farm, you should be. They are building, and blogging about, their Geobarn as they develop the Baldwin Center for Preservation Development.
* This is a test post – I’m trying out a few new things … the search module you see below as well as the video box to the top right … thoughts/feedback welcomed.
Update: RSS readers need to click through to see the video.
Update 2: Broken link fixed.
Carnival of Real Estate
It’s been a while since the Carnival has been to RealCentralVA, but it’s just as wide and varied as I remember. With nearly thirty entries to choose from, making a “top 5″ selection was a bit of a challenge, but I chose the following, in no particular order, for my readers – hoping they will learn something from what others have to offer.
The Relocation blog guides us to psychology rather than mere statistics: Looking for Housing’s Bottom? Check Your Psyche for These 3 Signs
Want to look stupid (and who doesn’t, really)?
Call a bottom in the housing market.
Martha Jefferson Redevelopment Finds a Partner
“A once in a generation opportunity.”
The Martha Jefferson neighborhood finally has an idea as to how it will be redeveloped. That they have selected so many local firms qualifies as a significant “good thing” for the Charlottesville community.
Let’s hope that their “120-day negotiation period” is fruitful and successful.
I’m thinking that this will be a tremendous boon to the Charlottesville community – particularly if they are able to install a grocery store (Trader Joe‘s anyone)?
Part of the trick is finding a compatible development partner. “A lot
Blog Wayback – How Much Do I Charge For Sending Out a Referral
I don’t like the feeling when I pay a referral fee (although they do pay the bills occasionally), so I don’t want to transfer that same ill feeling to another agent. … Related reading – Transparency in real estate fees (or why do I hate referral fees) Go to Hell, relo company Continue reading
What is RealCentralVA?
Thanks to Marijean and WCAV for the profile during their Blog of the Week segment.
Know this – some of the most informative, educational and entertaining contributions to this blog are provided by the commenters, and for each and every one of them, I am grateful and humbled that they choose to spend time here.
RealCentralVA is a real estate blog in Charlottesville that tracks the Charlottesville and Central Virginia real estate market … but there’s more than that. Since I founded this site in January 2005, I intended it to be an information resource for candid, honest opinion … Continue reading…
Yeah, I’ll support Free Speech
Thanks to the Charlottesville Bubble Bloggers for pointing this out.
From the Big Picture:
Let’s review your tax dollars at work: Godlman (sic) Sachs CEO Hank Paulson lobbied the SEC to allow the 5 largest iBanks to be exempt from net capital rules, and then leverage up 40 to 1. Which they did, especially with Mortgage-backed paper and derivatives. Then he becomes Treasury Secretary, and transfers from the taxpayers to these same iBanks — some directly, and some thru AIG — trillions of dollars.
And the first comment says it all:
To review — the
Upgraded Theme
I’ve upgraded the theme that runs RealCentralVA to the latest version. Please let me know if you have any problems. Thanks! … Continue reading…
