Archives for August 2006

Recycling poll

Recycling is hard to come by. The City of Charlottesville offers recycling (navigating their website makes me just want to give up and throw it all away). The County of Albemarle does not, but offers an informative page with drop-off recycling locations. I had no idea that our region was voted "most sustainable community in Read More

I don't like print media for one major reason - I cannot measure the response. With internet marketing, there are metrics I use to determine how advertising campaigns are working.Â Click-throughs, referrals from specific sites, hits, time spent on a particular page - these are all methods by which I can measure whether my money is being used effectively to market my clients' property. These metrics were paramount when I was evaluating a local magazine recently. I was simply not interested in their print arm, as nice as it is. How is print Read More

September Forum Watch

The Free Enterprise Forum has release their September Forum Watch. It's chock-a-block full of great information from around the entire region. As soon as it's linked, I'll post the link. Read More

Green development rising

Being an EcoBroker, I have a real vested interest in the adoption of green technologies in the housing industry. As someone who plans to live here for a good while, I have a vested interest as well. Avoiding positive green news is becoming harder and harder. Locally in the Charlottesville area, more properties are being marketed as "green," builders are seeing the value of building better, more sustainable housing ... Read More

Real estate pic of the week

And maybe the month. Wow. I've never seen a view quite like this and if I had $1.6 million, I'd consider it. The property's on Read More

What do you want to know?

I have been working in the real estate world for just over five years and have been around it since I was a wee child (both of my parents are Realtors). I have moved five or six times locally in seven years, but I have never directly asked myself or my clients this question - What do you want to know about the area that will either help you move or help you decide to move here? - Schools - Crime Rates - Employment - Grocery Stores - Public Transport - Recycling - What is there to do? - What have you been looking for online that you Read More

State oversight over local development?

Local government has failed, state-wide, from here to there. How will another layer of bureaucracy affect local growth and needed infrastructure improvements? Seriously. Listening to friends and clients, it is a rare (and usually misinformed) person who thinks that growth management has been responsibly implemented - locally and throughout the Commonwealth. The WP has an interesting article today that Read More