Would you buy a house with this HOA restriction?
From an otherwise-promising new development in Charlottesville: All toys, bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, mopeds, and such other similar items located on a Lot or adjacent streets shall be removed each evening to an area not exposed to view from any other Lot or street.
I am not a lead
For years I have thought of those who contact me through this blog not as leads but as people who want to have a conversation about real estate. So far, that' worked pretty well. I am not a lead video. Few things are more…
Three years of blogging
It's humbling and a bit embarrassing to look back to my first posts on 4 January 2005, on a vastly different (and inferior, non-open-source) blogging platform - but it was a good place to start. I'd like to think I and this site have grown,…
Appearance on local TV in Charlottesville
Channel 29 did a not-so-terrible story today on the local housing market. Even better, they shot my interview at a house I am marketing. Update 12/4/08 - Just to clarify the "no-so-terrible" - I am always concerned when doing interviews, as there I do not…
Charlottesville Housing Inventory for the start of 2008
Cautiously optimistic. That's how I choose to start this year. Additionally, we won't know where the proverbial/mythical "bottom" was until we have the benefit of 18 months of hindsight. Finding consensus among the optimists is like asking teenage girls to choose which boy they like…
End of year Realtor stats for the Charlottesville area
Here is my prediction, spun two ways - 15% of Realtors will choose not to renew their licenses. or 85% of Charlottesville Realtors choose to persevere through 2008. (I'm planning and planning to be one of them) On January 3 2008, looking back at 2007:…
Focusing on the wrong tools
A couple of weeks ago, the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center held a panel to discuss ways to implement technology in the classroom. Marijean Jagger, Waldo Jaquith, Sean Tubbs, Jim Bain, and I were some of the "tech folks" invited to participate along with several…
Google’s speedy indexing of pages not always a good thing
(For those of you who are not Realtors or bloggers associated with real estate - the general theme of this discussion is freedom of speech, governmental intervention, property taxes and assessments and blogs. If you care to catch up, you can start here.) Especially if…