I’m doing a video test … Youtube: Viddler: 4 Ubertor: Transcription: Hey, it’s Jim Duncan with Nest Realty and RealCentralVA.com here finishing up an afternoon of showing houses in Charlottesville, in western Albemarle County. A couple of thoughts after looking at a number of houses and trying to look at a number more: if you’re a seller and your house is on the market now,…
Nature, Children, Play and Neighborhoods
I learned a tremendous amount from listening to the discussion on Sunday’s Wake-Up Call on WNRN as Kate and Rick discussed nature, interacting with nature, play, roaming, neighborhoods … this post will be expanded with show notes when I make time to listen to it again, but here is my question – Particularly if you live in the Charlottesville area, which areas or neighborhoods do…
Charlottesville is Wine Country
Walla Walla Valley, Washington. Anderson Valley, California. Between Hermann and New Haven, Missouri. Charlottesville, Virginia*. Thanks, CNN. Virginia’s premier wine country, dotted with working farms and over 1,000 acres of grape vines, spreads out around the city of Charlottesville in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The free tour at 20-acre Jefferson Vineyards both explores the winery and recounts the history of Virginia wine…
Blog Wayback – Why Use a Realtor – Decoding NAR-Speak
In many markets across the country, over 50% of real estate sales are cooperative sales ; that is, a real estate agent other than yours brings in the buyer. … Your Realtor will generally prescreen and accompany qualified prospects through your property. a – I want to see that study. b – Allowing strangers into your home is the whole point of the MLS and lockbox system we use!
Blog Problems Today
I don’t know what caused it, but RealCentralVA.com was mostly inaccessible today from about 0500-1400. It was either an attack on this site or my host or a mistake by by host, but either way it was extraordinarily frustrating. I think it’s all over, but I’m in the midst of sorting a few things out to make the site faster and more efficient.
Here’s One Voice for Smaller Albemarle County Schools
The prospect of consolidating three smaller Albemarle County elementary schools is a troubling one – this is one of the areas in which economics may need to take a secondary position to sociological and societal benefits. Anecdotally, smaller schools are better. Better for classes, for community involvement, for neighborhoods … for real estate values. From today’s Daily Progress: (bolding mine) A committee is calling for…
Twitter Week in Review
Really looking forward to being on WNRN radio tomorrow morning at 11 http://post.ly/3N9m # Really looking forward to being on WNRN radio tomorrow morning at 11 ((jim duncan, radio, nature, play, bundoran farm, http://post.ly/3N9m # Never thought I'd be writing/blogging nearly 5 years in http://post.ly/3N9S # Going to the gym with National Association of Realtors' On Common Ground mag in hand. Good stuff this issue…