5 Real Estate What If’s That Make Me Lose Sleep
What if: 1 - The government forces all delinquent/underwater mortgages to be modified? Those of us who do pay our mortgages look like suckers. 2 - Retirees cannot retire. 3 - The 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage goes away? 4a - QRM becomes law -…
Unbelievable.
“Effective immediately FannieMae will no longer accept electronic signatures.” Why? Why???? This is the sort of thing I'd like to see Congress and the National Association of Realtors address. The inefficiencies created by needing wet signatures are tremendous. Printing, signing, scanning/faxing. Only to be told…
The “No-Spam” Policy for RealCentralVA.com
Search for homes to your heart's content. I'll never spam you. For real. Simple. I don't spam. Never have. But some people still use bogus names when registering for the home search tool on RealCentralVA.com. And then someone said to me - you know what…
Taking Vacation. And Stock.
I'm taking a vacation soon. I tell my clients that I am "grudgingly" going; but ... after reading my friends' Kris' and Jay's posts, I'm striving to readjust my priorities. I have systems in place, an extraordinarily competent agent poised to cover for me while…
Terremark in Culpeper Sold to Verizon
This news seems more interesting in light of the Fiberlight news from earlier today. (bolding mine) From Data Center Knowledge: Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal that will accelerate the telecom provider's push into cloud computing.…
See Charlottesville Differently Than Ever Before – Via Qwiki
Qwiki fascinates me, not only because it says "Monti-sello", and I've been playing with it for the past few weeks since it was in alpha. Now it's open to the public and I can embed it here (finally!). What do you think? Astonishingly, Qwiki picks…
Flyers are Probably More Effective than QR Codes
This time, I put the QR code on the price rider so as to eliminate squatting. But if we're not trying new things, what's the point?
View From the Gleason Condos
Apparently The HooK and I were sharing a brain this morning. Their snap o' the day is of the crane at the Waterhouse Project and I was showing condos in the Gleason building to buyer clients this morning and thought the view was interesting: View…