Happy Easter!
I plan to actually spend time with my family today. I hope all do the same.
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 be until the negatives outweigh the positives?
The liar.
I have chosen for now to meet with the agent's broker.
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 to see how long it would take them to reply. She sent it out on Thursday and asked the recipients…
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.
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 group has had its say, there’s no guarantee that a developer will be able to get the all the density…
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 of Jeff Goldblum’s character (paraphrased due to my memory) that we should consider not whether we can do something…