As a Buyer’s Agent, I can tell you about what is contained within the four corners of the property and can (and do with the appropriate caveats) speculate about what may happen outside those four corners.
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Twitter Week in Review
Listening to a pretty good 2-man band at my sister's wedding reception in Arlington watching planes approach landing to National Airport #fb # My blackberry needs to be rebuilt, methinks. Might just go for the…
Where Are the Walkable Neighborhoods in Charlottesville/Albemarle?
A new tool, optimalhomelocation.com (h/t Lifehacker ) Here’s my very rudimentary definition, based on personal biases and listening to my clients’ wants and needs – – Schools –(you can search by elementary school on my Charlottesville Home Search ) – Walkable neighborhood with sidewalks –(Walkscore can help, but you’re better off asking someone or driving by the area – or better yet, we can ride to the properties on bicycles!) … — The County of Albemarle does not offer curbside recycling, but two private companies have recently sprung up to fill this need – My Recycling Club and Green Pieces Recycling , so if you’re in the Urban Ring of the County, you should be able to get recycling.
Get Ready for a Tax Hike, Albemarle County Residents
For the purposes of the financial plan, Foley said staff are assuming a tax rate increase that accounts for falling residential property values and that keeps the effective tax rate the same as the current fiscal year. … A one-cent rate increase was already assumed in the five-year financial forecast and the plan assumes it will go up another cent in 2010 to 75.5 cents.
Carnival of the Green # 152
My Second favorite, due to my shift this year to riding my bicycle around Charlottesville is Zoom Life’s submission – Zoom Life presents the Top 5 Electric Bicycles of 2008 Electric bicycles, or e-bikes, bridge the gap between bicycles and scooters by giving you a vehicle which is both human and electric-powered. … My personal belief is that altruism and “doing the right thing” will carry us to a greener world only so far – – as evidenced by this story describing how funding is getter harder to get for green startups – we need to Go Green to Save Green to achieve a broader adoption of green lifestyles.
Earth Day links
How to go Green in the kitchen Beat the credit squeeze by going green Get a home energy audit This is my carbon footprint: 
What’s yours? … To avoid misconceptions that I advocate going green in an attempt to abolish capitalism , know this – going green can save you money in the long term (short term thinking generally causes problems) – If you don’t want to ride your bike to save energy, do it because gas is so flipping expensive!
Thursday links – 06-21-2007
I have been building this list since Monday and have a fairly wide range of links – Trulia alerts Hard work required to stage a home There’s no inflation — except for necessities Understanding home…