A Few Infrastructure Discussions worth Paying Attention To
- Meadowcreek Parkway may be getting closer to reality - C-Ville. Context: Meadowcreek Parkway study - 9/2005 What if The Meadowcreek Parkway didn't exist? 6/2008 For the most possible context - Charlottesville Tomorrow's Meadowcreek Parkway category - The Infrastructure we Want - Daniel Nairn After…
Telling a Story of a House
It's more than the house - it's the neighborhood, too. From the HooK, shamelessly promoting one of my listings - Naming subdivisions is like playing Mad Libs. To christen your basic development, just couple an adjective or nature word (like "Hidden" or "Fox") with a…
Grinches in Charlottesville
Is the Grinch from Charlottesville? It's that time of the year again - for the past several years around 1 December, the searches start to show up in my blog statistics - "Grinch Charlottesville," "Is the grinch from Charlottesville, Virginia?" "Is Charlottesville the inspiration for…
Charlottesville Tweet Up – 12 December
Wednesday December 12. Noon-2 Location - Rapture on the Downtown Mall - Reservations have been made (they've got my credit card) :) . The Tweetup's been registered on upcoming. What's a Tweet Up? It's a real world meeting between two or more people who know…
Why Aren’t 100% of the listings in IDX?
Because some firms don't see the benefit of distributing their listings to the widest possible audience. (hat tip: TechKnowBabble) An off-line comment in response to this post on Agent Genius sums up the argument against excluding listings from IDX very well: This is a great…
Foreclosures in Charlottesville Greater than Previously Known/Acknowledged
There's a fascinating story in today's Cavalier Daily that brings to light what has previously been discussed here on RealCentralVA - but this time with more data substantiating their claims: “Obviously you see the headlines of [areas] that have drastic numbers of foreclosures,” Lovelady said,…
Magnifying the Little Guy’s Voice
Found via Alltop - Advice To Any Attorney Contemplating Filing A Suite Against A Blogger Yes, if there is a clear libel or defamation (hopefully supported by bulletproof evidence), you should probably do what you do the best- be a good attorney and protect your…
What’s a Beme?
An interesting higher-level editorial piece in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, while not written with the real estate industry in mind, has some clear parallels - Marketing 3.0 is now the science of devising and managing directed business memes: call them bemes. Bemes are…
Condolences
My thoughts and prayers go out to Tanta, her friends and family and any and everyone who read her on Calculated Risk. She had an ability to explain financial matters in a cogent and humorous way that will be greatly missed. I personally learned a…