Latest RealPodVA – Housing, Cash, Internet, Home Inspections
Our eighth podcast is out. This was a fun podcast. We talked about housing as a luxury good, cash transactions, internet as a utility, and should you get a home inspection every couple of years? Listen and subscribe here in iTunes. Once we get a…
Ignorance, Client Insight, Empathy – My best Stuff Every Month
This month Nearly-mid-year stats and projections Ignorance & Ownership Seeing inside homes Empathy and body language What i'm reading Blogs I have no idea what I meant when I wrote "faucet;" I'm hoping it comes back to me before I publish. Interested in joining the…
Housing has Challengers Everywhere
A few thoughts as I'm in Portland this week for a quasi-real estate conference. I said on Twitter Had an interesting conversation with my Lyft driver this morning. Topics he raised: - unsustainable housing market - gentrification - rental properties - unsat infrastructure - rising…
RealPodVA – Curb Appeal
The Podcast continues. This week, we discussed curb appeal conveying to good people, finding happiness, and how to spend a couple thousand dollars when prepping a house for the market. We've gotten to the point where we're going to start having guests. This is a…
Opendoor, Dairy Central, Housing Expenditures
A few stories of micro and macro interest to break up the week. Chris Suarez at the Daily Progress - Dairy Central moving forward. This is going to be a transformative project on the Preston Avenue corridor. Lots going on here, and if you haven't been…
Describing Charlottesville & Crozet to a Friend – Part 2
A friend shared with me his description of the Charlottesville area that he'd sent to a friend. This is part two; part one is here, and it's quite useful and good. Reading this has been interesting for me; I look at Charlottesville through the lens of a…
“Nothing But Building Equity”
Remember the real estate crash? I do. Short-term thinking is a large part of how we got to the last housing-based recession. Welp. With clients over the weekend, we went into a new construction model home. When the salesperson said this, I was taken aback.…