Vacant houses
I've written about vacant houses before. In the Charlottesville/Central Virginia area*, there are 1709 residential properties on the market. 620 of these are vacant - a staggering 36%. Breaking the numbers down a hair more: 1278 properties are not marked as "new construction." 38% of…
Charlottesville Neighborhood – Fifeville
From a reader: I live near the intersection of 5th St. SW and Dice. There is some question as to what my neighborhood should be called. One realtor tried to market the area north and south of West Main Street as “midtown,” though it hasn’t…
Brace yourselves for the snowstorm
It might snow tomorrow. Those of you who get snow regularly, you may commence scoffing and snickering. Three inches of snow is a veritable blizzard. You too, Kristal. Stock up on bread, milk, water and sterno. However, Accuweather says: Considerable cloudiness with snow with little…
Search for homes on Yahoo
And schools, too. MLS data is not complete, but it's a start ... if only MLS' would innovate like this. Via the Yahoo Blog. Here are Charlottesville Schools (Albemarle County, while not part of Charlottesville City is included in "Charlottesville." That you can refine by…
Charlottesville blogger ponders City Council run
Joining with Barack Obama and John Edwards, local attorney, area native and blogger, Jennifer McKeever ponders a run for City Council. So long as she's in it solely for the glory and the money, she'll be alright.
Blog loading faster
I certainly hope so. The past few weeks (months?) My blog has been slow loading. I have done a couple of things to help it along, but was tempted to switch hosts. It's hard to grow readership when the blog takes forever to load -…
Spelling, feedback and assessments – 10-18-2007
Fluvanna County building permits are down, YoY, but assessments are way up. Blogging for listing feedback (courtesy of real/diaBlog). Similar to ShackYack, but focused strictly on listing feedback, my greatest question remains - what is the potential liability to the blog provider if damaging (true…
Computerized housing
And you thought I meant "smart homes," didn't you? I saw this written up elsewhere, but Treehugger had the best, and the only one had links to the pertinent websites. The future may be coming faster than we think.
Upgraded WordPress
Apparently there was a security vulnerability. Thanks to Greg for the heads-up. Also, I took the opportunity to activate Askimet (and de-activate Bad Behavior and Spam Karma) and changed my comment-closing plugin. If anything seems dodgey, please let me know.
If you drink wine in Virginia
Then you should be interested in this bill, that: Restores to certain Virginia retailers the privilege of delivering wine and beer to their customers.... which is not a bad thing. More here. Related bills - SB1205, SB1062, HB2493, HB2450 One of our local wine shop…