Eminent Domain in Charlottesville
The City is going to try to exercise eminent domain to get the land for the Hillsdale Connector. There's money to hire the folks to take the land, but not to actually build the road. Ironic, no?
Twitter Week in Review
RT @joshcvt If only I lived in a city with minor-league baseball. [Check out the Waynesboro team] # https://twitpic.com/7afp8 - Polo in Crozet # Looking forward to the Pink Ribbon Classic at King Family Vineyards tomorrow - https://www.pinkribbonpolo.com/ # @robhahn - and ... I went…
Twitter Week in Review
@familytreegirl ;). Anytime fitness in Crozet. # Saturday night and I'm the only one #atthegym. Woot. I get to turn on the US soccer match on all the TVs! # After showing houses for nearly 6 hours, I'm starving. Been so focused on showing I…
Twitter Week in Review
Settling in for a few hours of work. # Listening to 130 on XM discussing the enormous dangers of the White House having its own "news" production channels # https://twitpic.com/69qkj - Here we go again #gasprices # RT @Cyberhomes Should you do a podcast or…
Free Enterprise Forum’s Reality Check Report
The Free Enterprise Forum's "Reality Check" Report - Charlottesville, VA – Albemarle County's Places29 Master Plan for the North US 29 corridor under counts cost by over $175,000,000 (40.5%) according to the ‘Reality Check Report' released today by the Free Enterprise Forum. Using cost data…
Photographs of Belmont in Charlottesville
Kathryn Wagner has put together a wonderful photographic series depicting the Belmont neighborhood in Charlottesville. Direct link to the photos here. This is a story I wrote in 2007 about Belmont. These are some of the homes for sale in the Belmont Neighborhood: * Bear…
Twitter Week in Review
Just saw the new Terminator. Daughter asked "Why was Arnold Schwartzenegger in it?" I'm old. # @Marijean Crozet Pie Down? What'd I miss? # Just looked - UVA lax is getting pummeled by Cornell # @1000wattmarc what are the truths to real estate? What does…
Diverse Solutions Speeds it up
And it's all about speed ... and accuracy ... and functionality ... searching for homes in Charlottesville and Albemarle just got faster. From Diverse Solutions' blog: Two days ago, we deployed a very significant change to the way our dsSearchAgent IDX product is served to…
Twitter Week in Review
@ARDELLd @mizzle Virginia has statutes for both buyers and sellers. # RT @tcar @BawldGuy upper leadership (on the staff side) worked very hard to get this before the board. --- members betrayed by members # Running out to take the older one to soccer tryouts.…
Yeah, I’ll support Free Speech
Thanks to the Charlottesville Bubble Bloggers for pointing this out. From the Big Picture: Let's review your tax dollars at work: Godlman (sic) Sachs CEO Hank Paulson lobbied the SEC to allow the 5 largest iBanks to be exempt from net capital rules, and then…