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Efficiency in Government in Albemarle

I haven’t even attended my first meeting for the Albemarle County Fiscal Impact Advisory Committee, but I am already curious. From the letter accompanying the entirety of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act:

I am required to furnish you a copy of the FOIA because of your position on the … Committee …

Why not send an email with a link to the Act online (archived: 2024)? That would have saved at least a ream of paper, as all members were probably sent a copy.

This site will likely become among my frequent reads – the Virginia Coalition for Open Government.

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5 Real Estate What If’s That Make Me Lose Sleep

What if: 1 - The government forces all delinquent/underwater mortgages to be modified? Those of us who do pay our mortgages look like suckers. 2 - Retirees cannot retire. 3 - The 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage goes away? 4a - QRM becomes law -…

Unbelievable.

“Effective immediately FannieMae will no longer accept electronic signatures.” Why? Why???? This is the sort of thing I'd like to see Congress and the National Association of Realtors address. The inefficiencies created by needing wet signatures are tremendous. Printing, signing, scanning/faxing. Only to be told…

The “No-Spam” Policy for RealCentralVA.com

Search for homes to your heart's content. I'll never spam you. For real. Simple. I don't spam. Never have. But some people still use bogus names when registering for the home search tool on RealCentralVA.com. And then someone said to me - you know what…

Taking Vacation. And Stock.

I'm taking a vacation soon. I tell my clients that I am "grudgingly" going; but ... after reading my friends' Kris' and Jay's posts, I'm striving to readjust my priorities. I have systems in place, an extraordinarily competent agent poised to cover for me while…

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