Refreshing The Blog – 21 Years Later
Refreshing my real estate blog, RealCentralVA, for the first time in 20 years has been a journey.
Charlottesville Areas Market Reports to Start 2020
Super-quick takeaways Good inventory is low New construction is good, and reasonably expensive We need more skilled labor to build houses Prices are up, mostly. Do your due diligence. Some houses are going super-fast, some are not The real estate market in Charlottesville and Albemarle…
Blog Update – Still Here
I'm still here. Read, email, call - 434-242-7140. Subscribe to my monthly note. RealCentralVA isn't going anywhere, but I am writing here less, and focusing on clients and my monthly note more. So here we are.Why This Post?I felt like I've been neglecting writing here,…
Writing a Bit Less on the Blog
I'm writing less here, and that's ok. It's not for a lack of ideas (I have a long list of drafts), or time, necessarily, but I've been focusing on clients so much that my drafts are remaining drafts for a bit longer. As I wrote…
Creating Content. It’s Worthwhile Work
Writing matters. Writing is a way for me to work through ideas, publish things I send often to clients, archive thoughts, and provide, for better or worse, a track record for people to learn about Charlottesville and, me. Not everything is, or has to be,…
So Much Content – Podcasts, Notes, Words
I walked in a new-to-me park last week in the City of Charlottesville. Can you guess which one? Producing content is hard. So is practicing real estate. Blog posts have been in short supply of late, as client representation takes precedence. With that said,…
Killing Blog Comments – A Very Tempting Thought
No one comments anymore. I'm tempted to follow NPR's lead, and remove comments on RealCentralVA. As they noted, naturally, on Twitter: Significant stat on comment retirement: Only .003 percent of visitors posted even once a month over three months. As the web has evolved and…
10 Years of Blogging
10 years ago today, I wrote the first post here on RealCentralVA. It's been an interesting 10 years. Here's to at least one more.
Changing Writing Progams: a Big Little Change
It’s funny how a seemingly small shift can have a big impact. For the past few weeks, I’ve been using Desk and I highly recommend it. I’d used the same blogging platform for nearly 8 years, since my blog looked like this (which wasn’t a bad…
Crozet in 2013
The more I've thought about this, the more I hope to make time to got back and do a wrap up for 2012, 2011, 2010 … If you're interested in what happened in Crozet, I went through the 2013 archives and chose what I thought…