Reflections on this weekend
This weekend I had the opportunity to meet with two different buyers, both of whom are going to be Medical Residents at UVA, and I hope I listened well. 1) "Your blog is very helpful - more-so than your website." While somewhat difficult to hear,…
The value of transparent blogging
I find myself referring to this blog frequently in conversations with clients and prospective clients. The ability to refer to what is essentially a public record of my opinions has proven to be invaluable (and I guess dangerous). Can we see how long a property…
Marketing ethics to Virginia Realtors
The Virginia Association of Realtors has launched a new site designed to market sound ethics practices. I like the concept of marketing the value of ethics, but fear that those most in need of ethics training/primers/refreshers just might not care. It has a blog, sort…
Bloginar today in NoVa
I participated in a short presentation in Northern Virginia today for their chapter of the Women's Council of Realtors. I went for two reasons - first, I was asked by a classmate of last year's class of the Virginia Association of Realtors' Leadership Academy to…
RealCentralVA is two years old
I almost missed it. It's been two years since I started this blog. This is my very first post, back before I discovered the "real" blogging experience offered by Wordpress. So much has changed in the past two years that reflecting is a difficult task.…
Links for 3 January 2007
Gorgeous pictures of soccer fields (HT: growabrain) Too many Realtors Time-based Zoning takes a blow in Greene Vista is going to jumpstart blogs and RSS. Or maybe sales of Apple products. How to fight. Software for starving students - nice. I am currently using Neo…
New website is finally up
Finally. After much turmoil *and 24 hours of lost email*, I have now fully opened up my new real estate website. If you get a moment, check it out. The time I have spent on this over the past week has completely drained me. Downtime,…
Poll results
I'll take it. As of 17 December, 2006 - these are the results. 56% of all voters are either "Curious Consumer" or "Active Buyer or Seller." 39% of all voters are either "Real estate Professional" or "Related Real estate field" These results are better than…
More dogs in the kennel
It seems that Greg's dog is growing. And the time I spend reading is growing as well. When I think of Greg and his writings, I have to break out the good old Thesaurus to find new words to describe him - prolific, copious, astute,…