“Green” bills in VA House
At least somebody is looking for ways to encourage sustainable housing. Directing the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission to study the feasibility of enabling legislation to authorize localities to provide real property tax incentives to encourage buildings to be constructed using "green building" or "sustainable"…
A move to print?
This is an idea I have been kicking around for the past several days. The trend has been for the past several years that real estate advertising has been moving more and more to the web - it's cheaper, more effective, more immediate and easier…
Morning reading 02-16-06
I went to the General Assembly yesterday for the Realtors' Day on the Hill. Thus, I have a great deal of catching up to do. In the meantime ... The House Transportation Package Driven to Despair Suing a real estate agent for misrepresentation. Bottom line:…
Albemarle Place discussion
Charlottesville Tomorrow again provides an excellent service and podcast of today's discussion on WINA about Albemarle Place. I held a Realtor's Open House at my listing on Minor Ridge Road this morning. Thankfully, we had quite a bit of traffic from fellow Realtors - about…
An aggregator for the aggregators?
This story from Curbed verbalizes a question I have been tossing around for some time - with the advent of GoogleBase, Zillow, Craigslist, Propsmart, opening MLS's, how is one supposed to search them all? How about this? Edgio.com - The way Edgeio works is that…
Crozet Town meeting and other Growth musings
I have had a hard time working up to this post, as the two and a half hour meeting last Thursday night seemed to be so much of the same conflict, same discussions, same end result. The County did a fine presentation that provided a…
Green building
Making "green" choices - Thankfully, there is an upward trend in the number of environmentally sound and sustainable products on the market. Green building's move to the mainstream is picking up speed. These products tend to cost a bit more right now, mainly because going…
So much to blog …
... So little time ... I read so much every day and my "blog this!" folder keeps growing ... in that vein, here are a few of the things that I have been reading lately that are applicable to the Central Virginia real estate market…
A novel idea
A politician who is beholden to others and to what is right rather than his own ego and hunt for power. Coburn is the most dangerous creature that can come to the Senate, someone simply uninterested in being popular. When House Speaker Dennis Hastert defends…
Rent -v- Buy
This past week I advised one client and one consumer to rent rather than buy. Buying just didn't seem to be the right thing to do for either of these people, for a variety of reasons for each. The consumer said that she works with…