Here’s how my clients and I assess neighborhoods perceived friendliness factors: if you’re driving through a neighborhood, how many people walking on the streets wave to you? … It’s something that when I moved to Charlottesville 20 some years ago, my mom and my sister were driving through a neighborhood and after we went through the neighborhood my mom looked at us and said: “kids, what did you all think about that place?†and one of us, either my sister or I said: “you know, we didn’t like it mom because those boys didn’t wave at us†and it was really simple, but quite profound and we didn’t end up moving there, but we did move to a neighborhood that was quite friendly and still is frankly. So my question is for buyers and sellers: what is your neighborhoods or the neighborhoods that you’re searching perceived friendliness value?
Re-Invigorating the Charlottesville VMI Alumni Chapter
Update 7 September 2011: There is now a Charlottesville VMI Alumni page with contact information and information on the monthly happy hour meetings. The Charlottesville VMI alumni chapter is becoming much more active.
DP and Charlottesville Tomorrow begin Four-Part Series on Traffic and Growth
Part One started yesterday in the Daily Progress . The difficulty in balancing growth pressures and a decline in transportation infrastructure spending is growing more acute, but there is little movement toward solutions. How would you solve the transit/traffic/transportation issues the Charlottesville/Albemarle region is facing?
Charlottesville Real Estate – Twitter Week in Review – 29 November 2009
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“Everything’s on the Table” – Albemarle County Schools Budget
Brandon Shulletta writes in today’s Daily Progress : School division leaders drafting budget requests are also wondering whether next year’s supervisors are more likely to maintain the current real-estate tax rate of 74.2 cents per $100 of assessed value or increase the rate to 77.2 cents — two options officials have keyed on. At the 77.2-cent rate, county heads project that the average homeowner would pay the same real-estate taxes next year as under this year’s rate because assessed home values are declining. … Rather than complain about or note how ridiculous it is for local governments to decide how much they are going to spend before they know what their actual income is going to be , I’d rather come up with possible solutions . … Have all the kids meet at the front of the subdivision. – What impact would year-round schooling have on the budget? – How much money would be saved by turning off lights methodically and religiously?
October Home Sales Up. Meh.
From the Wall Street Journal : About one in seven American households with mortgages is behind on payments or in foreclosure, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. … The trade group reported Thursday that 14.4% of first-lien mortgages on one- to four-family homes in the third quarter were 30 days or more overdue or in the foreclosure process. … Another Wall Street Journal : The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery. … … The National Association of Realtors reported Monday that sales of previously occupied homes in October jumped 10.1% from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.1 million, the highest since February 2007.
Nest Welcomes Two Realtors
And we couldn’t be happier by their addition .