What Do I Gain from Watching Incoming Visitors to My Blog?
I see little nuggets like this - someone from Houston searched Google for - want to move to Charlottesville - and it seems that I have some work to do if I want to come up further on the first page of Google. If you…
Tune In To WINA Today at 4:15
I'll be on Coy Barefoot's Charlottesville - Right Now! today from four fifteen to five o'clock pm - please feel free to let me know in advance if there are any topics or questions you would like us to discuss or call in - 434-977-1070.…
Mark Your Calenders – Credit and Bankruptcy Lunch and Learn
In a real sign of the time, Piedmont Housing Alliance is offering this seminar - Wednesday, 14 January 200911:30 to 1 pm111 Monticello Ave, Suite 104 Open to the public - Free - (and bring your own lunch) · How long will the bankruptcy stay…
Charlottesville Foreclosures Study sheds Light on a Surprisingly Hidden Market
Download the study (pdf) here. First things first, a huge and generous thanks to everybody in Prof. Nisha Botchwey's class at the University of Virginia School of Architecture for their efforts, and the results of said efforts. By their producing the report from which my…
Four Years of Blogging at RealCentralVA – And No End in Sight
Building Credibility Takes Time. Four years, one leap year, more than 2,600 posts, thousands of comments, millions of hits and pageviews ... I now control my name in Google and there is an infinite amount left for me to learn ... A lot has changed…
Not Only is the Downtown Mall Walkable
It provides for a great day with the kids. I love Sean's description of his day on the Downtown Mall with his kids. Read the whole thing. I'm grateful to him for sharing. One of the things I enjoy best in the world is putting…
Where Are the Walkable Neighborhoods in Charlottesville/Albemarle?
People want to be able to walk to stuff. My question for my readers is this - is your neighborhood walkable? Walkscore is a great resource, although it's data is not always 100% accurate. A new tool, optimalhomelocation.com (h/t Lifehacker) offers the potential to find…
Google Transit in Charlottesville
Read all about it at Charlottesville Tomorrow. Shame Google's Street View folks decided Charlottesville wasn't worthy.
Search Tool Down
My nifty new "search for homes" tool is down, but I expect it'll be fixed shortly. Update - all seems to be well now. Also, Diverse Solutions released all sorts of updates today. - A couple very useful changes we've also made to the front-end…
Charlottesville Tweetup Roundup
The 2nd Charlottesville Tweet Up was held last Friday at Rapture on the Downtown Mall and it was a blast - an excellent way to spend an hour or so on a Friday afternoon, meeting friends "IRL" - In Real Life - an often infrequent…