Help Vet Charlottesville Real Estate Market Statistics

If you’re curious about and/or familiar with the Charlottesville real estate market – especially if you’re a consumer – buyer, seller, voyeur, critic of – I’d love your help with some market statistics that I am putting together. Deep, charts, statistics … they’re hip and cool … I just need to ascertain their accuracy, granular relevance and what questions they raise, so I can clean…

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Repaying the Homebuyer Tax Credit

A little reminder courtesy of the IRS and Calculated Risk: Q: When must I pay back the credit for the home I purchased in 2009? A: Generally, there is no requirement to pay back the credit for a principal residence purchased in 2009. The obligation to repay the credit on a home purchased in 2009 arises only if the home ceases to be your principal…

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Albemarle County BoS Campaign Update

Interesting and useful discussion at Cvillenews about David Slutzky’s proposal to overhaul rural land use policies. Charlottesville Tomorrow has an update on who’s raised the most (and least) money so far. I just wonder if that $250k could have been used more wisely than running for local office. More than any other, local elections – and your (our) votes matter. Please be informed.

Twitter Week in Review

Traditional Office unRequired http://post.ly/91Kx # @jsheehan200 there should be a list or network of existing "incubator" brokerages in reply to jsheehan200 # Looking forward to writing blog post about today's showings. Lots that sellers could be doing differently. And better. # RT @outskirts: 5 obese smokers standing outside miller's snapping pic saying, "this is where it all began." truly pathetic! [What's "it"?] # @rcooper hey…

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