Friday Links – 27 July 2007
IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability - ammunition for the FairTax? If you're getting ready to move and need to figure out where to put your furniture, check out this site that will help you do the arrangements before you move. (hat tip: Charlottesville…
Where is your traffic coming from?
The focus of this blog has always been first on the Charlottesville-area real estate consumer and second on the fellow real estate professionals. Last year I ran a poll that affirmed these goals - 56% of all voters are either “Curious Consumer” or “Active Buyer…
Perhaps the nicest thing ever written about me
Imagine my surprise, when flipping through this week's C-Ville today, I was surprised to see a review of RealCentralVA.com. 1. It is an unsolicited endorsement. 2. It takes up a quarter-page in one of the two prominent weekly newspapers in Charlottesville. 2. It accurately captures…
The web is changing accountability – for everybody
The defendant's personal gain aside, what he is doing highlights how the rules have changed. At the heart of the fight is a Web site started by Mike Morgan, the real-estate broker, to collect complaints and dispense advice about what he considers shoddy workmanship on…
Tuesday links 07-24-2007
Charlottesville is in a Drought Watch Wages in the region slightly up; what's the benefit in this? The survey is proprietary, and Carolyn Fowler of HR Diversified Solutions warns the Hook that even if we pony up $200 for a copy of the report, publishing…
The perils of being quoted in the media in Charlottesville
Sometimes, it seems that being quoted in the media is more trouble than it's worth. I'd like to see C-Ville open their stories in a manner similar to The HooK. Transparency hurt nobody. Take today's story in the C-Ville Weekly on the area's home sales…
Upgraded WP
After testing it on my other blogs, I've upgraded Wordpress to 2.2.1. Please let me know if you have any issues.
The Carnival of Real Estate #51
Is up at Rain City Guide. There are plenty of posts worthy of reading by real estate-related professions, but also for real estate consumers and voyeurs, notably: Half-assed service Divorcing the real estate commissions ... Expected rate of decline of home prices in the next…
Crafty SEO tactics for real estate bloggers
I feel like I'm being gamed. Maybe it was the title of the article, "Is Real estate blogging advertising?" or maybe I just got lucky, but one of the comments on my post the other day appear to be a new kind of comment spam,…
Is real estate blogging advertising?
Or is it both advertising and journalism? What rights should bloggers have? How does one define "advertising?" When contemplating this article, more questions than answers presented themselves, ultimately arriving at the most appropriate answer to the title question - "maybe" and "it depends". Painting all…