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Top 10 Charlottesville Bars
cVillain does a nice rundown of Charlottesville's bars ... While choosing a Top 10 list represents a difficult task, we like to do it anyway. Importantly, it's a test for us to find that happy medium amongst the gamut of Charlottesville opinion. Having recently listed…
Must Read Advice from Kris Berg
Kris and Steve say - Weeding through the thick field of job applicants can be a daunting undertaking. Sure, you can make a beeline to the “Neighborhood Specialist,” but we are all neighborhood specialists if you believe the bus benches, the shopping carts, and the…
Hooray, Charlottesville is Number 11
Another day, another day on a list for Charlottesville. I can't tell whether Forbes means "Charlottesville (City of)" or "Charlottesville/Albemarle" ... Either way, we're number 11 in the "Best Small Places for Business and Careers"
Growth and Development
This is why I read Dean Bruner's blog (the Dean of UVA's Darden School): Of course, we shouldn't blame the media, for growth is yesterday's news. The story today is all about the contraction—we are having a whopper of a sales-based contraction. But top-line growth…
I’ll Take My Black-and-White View of Honor any Day
Don't Lie. Don't Cheat. Don't Steal. Don't Tolerate the above. I'm good with that. Apparently, 56% of MBA's don't hold similar views. Still, there have been signs that all is not well in business education. A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006…
Imagine the Possibilities for Real Estate
Drive by a house, and a tour of the home pops up on your windshield, as do the most recent sales, building permits, survey information - all of the pertinent information about a property that you know you need to know, and also what you…
Speaking about Entrepreneurship and Encouraging Buyers’ Due Diligence
See all of my videos here. Update 26 May 2009; transcription of the video follows: Jim Duncan with RealCentralVA.com here driving in to meet some potential buyers moving here from out of State. They had initially e-mailed me a couple of weeks ago and said…
Learning About Short Sales
Our local Realtor Association is holding a lunch tomorrow on short sales, which are becoming more and more of an issue in the Charlottesville market. Despite staff's marketing the lunch quite effectively to the membership, only seven Realtors (now eight, including me) have signed up.…