Regarding NAR’s new campaign
Via the Big Picture: In all my experience trading, I cannot recall ever coming across any item that it was a great time to buy and sell something simulataneously.Um. Yeah. It's hard to argue with that.
Condos and CharlAlbemarle market stats
The market in the Charlottesville/Albemarle region is, shall we say, different from the way it was last year. "It's a great time to buy" - the new media blitz from the National Association of Realtors. I have said it before and will say it again…
Red Hot Chili Peppers in Charlottesville
Wow. Our little town is pulling in the acts! George Carlin?
Public credibility in the blogosphere
Another example comes to me today from the Charlottesville blogosphere concerning public credibility in the age of blogs. Write this down: You cannot screw somebody over and not have it written about for the world to see. Word of mouth reaches much further than it…
How do you assess your agent’s tech skills?
Inspired by a comment on this post, I wonder: Do buyers assess a prospective agent's tech skills? If so, how? It is common knowledge that consumers are turning to the internets to do research. How does one assess whether a buyers' agent is tech-savvy? For…
Links for 11-01-2006
A possible way to get a data off a dying hard disk- wish I had an external HD enclosure handy. With all the talk about Zillow, why no fuss about ditech.com's implementation of "eAppraisals"? They are trying to entice folks to refinance based in part…