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Father, husband, Charlottesville real estate agent, bicycle rider & soccer coach. And more. Lots more.

GoCHO – Charlottesville Airport Getting More Flights?

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Namely to these locations: CLE Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport @ Cleveland, OH EWR Newark Liberty International Airport @ Newark, NJ IAH George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport @ Houston, TX ORD Chicago O’Hare International Airport @ Chicago, IL Combine more flights with a longer runway , and Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport will expand its runway by 800 feet with initial Phase 1A a $6 million dollar project funded in part by the Virginia Aviation Board and the Airport Authority. The runway extension will allow us to accommodate more fully-booked flights in varying weather conditions, improving service to travelers and the airlins we serve. When the extension is complete, more flights can be fully booked and depart from and land at CHO; this means more options for travel to and from CHO and more seats on flights mean lower fares for those flying from CHO.

…NBC29 has learned that CHO is in negotiations with three air carriers which could provide service to Chicago and Florida; one of the three prospects is being touted as a “low-fare” carrier.

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Strategic Defaults – Moral? Ethical? Pure Business?

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CBS did a fluff piece of reporting last night about strategic defaults, whereby a homeowner makes a business decision to walk away from a mortgage – the way businesses do all the time. … Watch CBS News Videos Online We are certainly in interesting times, and the question of strategic defaults isn’t going away for a while. … I can think of a couple local developments – and one in particular – where walking away makes sense, because nearly every single house was bought speculatively and the home buyers were manipulated by the machine. … Related : “The Subprime Problem is Contained” – January 2008 Tishmans’s ‘Strategic Default” on Stuyvesant Town – WSJ ( more ) Does Morgan Stanley “Walking Away” from CRE Contribute to Strategic Defaults?

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Monday Links – 10 May 2010

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And the other side of the Facebook privacy argument . – Arizona’s governor goes on the offensive . – Do we need a “unified database of places” ? … Every American should read and understand that we don’t have to allow ourselves to be terrorized – by terrorists or our government.

…And for eight and a half years now, the dominant federal government response to terrorist threats and attacks has been to magnify their harm by increasing a mood of fear and intimidation. … It’s not just that they’re pointless, uninformative, and insulting to our collective intelligence; it’s that their larger effect is to make people feel frightened rather than brave.

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What Makes Realtor.com Different?

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This post is targeted more towards Realtors rather than real estate consumers, hence, the “sideblog” category …. … 2 – I’ve sent clients to the Realtor.com mobile app and they have told me they like the mobile app . … I do have a few questions, predicated by this from Inman.com today regarding the beta Realtor.com :

“”We plan to have homes for sale listings, which is still the search default, new construction, recently sold, as well as off market properties and rentals, all searchable and discoverable from one place,” Berkowitz said.” – Why do Realtors have to go through the time and expense of VOWs to display sold data? – Why does Realtor.com get to play by different rules than Realtors? – Why don’t they pay Realtors for data? – Can an IDX provider do the same thing as Realtor.com?

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Three Charlottesville Neighborhoods – Thanks to USA Today

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The biggest draw is Keswick Hall, a 600-acre gated community that is home to the Keswick Club with an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, an Orient Express hotel, and the Estates at Keswick Hall, 124 home sites ranging from 2 to 8 acres. … Anchored by a large pedestrian mall and walking distance of the University of Virginia, downtown is suddenly hot, with many new condos to choose from. … “This is probably the most popular second-home area right now, with everything from condos and townhomes to detached single family homes,” says Mailloux. … One appeal for second-home buyers is that maintenance fees include “everything down to the landscaping and lawn care,” with about 150 houses and condos from $500,000 to $1.2 million.

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Local Food in Charlottesville and Albemarle

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The more I delve into and learn about the food system, local food, where our food comes from, the more convinced I become that real estate – my chosen path – is a huge component to the food system. … Albemarle loosens some key regulations : A pair of zoning amendments adopted Wednesday by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will make it easier for farms and wineries to sell their products. … Previously, Albemarle restricted the amount of people allowed to attend events held at wineries to no more than 150 people, and restricted such events to no more than 12 a year.   UVA Planning Students audit area food systems : For each of the past five years, students in Tanya Denckla Cobb and Timothy Beatley’s class have examined different aspects of how this community obtains its food.

… There are at least nine Farmers’ Markets in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Charlottesville City Market ( CharlottesvilleCityMarket.com ) Charlottesville Holiday Market Crozet Farmers Market Earlysville Farmers Market Farmers in the Park Forest Lakes Farmers Market Scottsville Farmers Market The Market at Pen Park Whole Foods Farmers Market

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