Showing today
I showed property this morning from Mill Creek and Foxcroft to the south east to Crozet to the west. I found myself speaking equally of our regions' negatives (water, traffic, affordable housing) as the positives - schools, environment, cultural opportunities ...... How long will it…
Slow response = slow business
When agents do respond to e-mail inquiries, 70 percent of the agents take two days to respond and 58 percent do not respond at all. To illustrate this point, a manager in a top-producing office of 120 agents recently sent an e-mail to her agents…
Limited blogging today
I will be out showing property. Something I have been thinking about is how I will manage to keep the blogging up when I (hopefully by the grace of God) get very busy. (more…)
Does planned development next door harm my property value?
Although infill developments that fit new houses into unused bits of land in older developments are all the rage among land planners, who want to minimize sprawl, in reality, they're very hard to get past planning boards, environmentalists and neighborhood groups.... By the time every…
Jurrasic Park around the corner?
A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded what appear to be the only preserved soft tissues ever recovered from a dinosaur. Taken from a 70-million-year-old thighbone, the structures look like the blood vessels, cells, and proteins involved in bone formation....Let us not forget the poignant words…
Comparison to the Tech Bubble?
But the parallels are raising alarms among many economists, even those who acknowledge that there are important differences between homes and stocks that significantly reduce the chances of another meltdown....As high as they might seem now on the coasts, home prices nationally have not quite…
Remodeling a kitchen – virtually!
There are so many options: the basic layout, cabinet configurations, styles, colors, lighting and more, plus practical issues of budgets, contractors, plumbing, appliances and on it goes....Enter the Web -- the electronic stand-in for stacks of shelter magazines and countless trips to design centers and…
Lied to again.
Rather than go into the details, vet your Realtor before working with him or her.... Realtors like this one make the rest of us look bad. (more…)
Health club opens in Fluvanna
Good news for everybody in Fluvanna!The Health Nutz club has just opened up.... Despite the fact that they have apparently misspelled "Nuts" they should be very successful.In a further sign of the growth, 6.35 acres just came on the market near Lake Monticello that should…