Nest Realty Wins Most Innovative Brokerage Award
More to come ... A bit more at Nest's blog.
Charlottesville Regional Real Estate Update – August 2009
Huge thank you to Barry Merchant with VHDA for speaking and CAAR for inviting him again to speak. This is an update to his presentation in March of this year, and it was informative, enlightening, candid and sobering. Comments, questions and feedback welcomed. I'm planning…
National Geographic Loves Charlottesville – Again.
They came in April of this year (noted here) and they're back again this month. From National Geographic's Traveler: You wouldn't expect Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson, and William Shakespeare to have anything in common, but they do. All three men cast long shadows in…
Belvedere Pioneers Celebrate One Year
A fascinating and insightful post from Kate at Belvedere that is clearly heartfelt and one she may have struggled to write. She highlights some of the ups, downs, surprises and disappointments. As I represented them and they are friends, I'm delighted with her closing: "but…
Miss Utility Cracks Down on Signs in Virginia
Real estate signs are a perennial problem/necessity/eyesore/requirement to market a home effectively ... and now revenue opportunity for the SCC/Miss Utility. You may have heard about Virginia's Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act: It requires that Realtors® (and others) call the Virginia Utility Protection Service —…
Albemarle County’s Land Use Re-Validation Progam
According to Albemarle County, as of 1 October 2008, there were "4,981 tax parcels in the Use Value Tax Program." I haven't seen much recent discussion about the potential impacts of the land use re-validation program in Albemarle County. The Free Enterprise Forum discussed it…
Twitter Week in Review
@tcar Happy Birthday! # Ending our vacation https://post.ly/1nX1 # @steverubel Here's the question I keep coming back to with Posterous (and other 3rd party platforms) ... who owns the ... https://post.ly/xvE # ‘Take Back the Beep' Campaign - Pogue's Posts Blog - NYTimes.com https://post.ly/1moT #…
Albemarle County Curbside Recycling – Time Disposal
No more separating recycling. No more driving to one of Albemarle County's recycling centers. Lamentably, no more using the private curbside recyclers. I have written about recycling in Albemarle and Charlottesville's urban ring several times over the years, and now one of the larger private…
Transcript of Last Week’s Radio Show
This is a transcript of last week's appearance on WINA's Charlottesville - Right Now! with Coy Barefoot. Listen to the podcast at Cville Podcast. Coy:Let's talk a little local real estate with the folks from Nest Realty. I'm joined live in the studio by Jim…
Twitter Week in Review
Listening to a pretty good 2-man band at my sister's wedding reception in Arlington watching planes approach landing to National Airport #fb # My blackberry needs to be rebuilt, methinks. Might just go for the Tour. Not getting any emails. # Awesome: Verizon support says,…