Real Estate Brokers can Stop Learning After 15 Years
This bill in the General Assembly makes no sense. Or ... get away with it for fifteen years and you're good to go. Or ... after fifteen years, there's nothing left to learn. Can't teach old dogs new tricks? I've been assured that the Virginia…
Albemarle County Assessments are on the Horizon
Get ready for the hullabaloo ... Albemarle County - and other localities' - real estate assessments will be released in about 10 days. Will they go up? What happens if they do? Will they (like property values seem to have done) go down? As I…
Challenging the Status Quo
“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” If we do not have the courage to acknowledge and examine the status quo - in this case - Agency in the Commonwealth of Virginia, why not? I tell my children that…
Get Ready for a Tax Hike, Albemarle County Residents
Actually, it's not a tax "hike" but an assumption that the mil rate in Albemarle County will be raised next year. (bolding mine) For the purposes of the financial plan, Foley said staff are assuming a tax rate increase that accounts for falling residential property…
David Slutzky to Challenge Rob Bell?
Might Democrat David Slutzky challenge and unseat long-term incumbent Rebublican Rob Bell in the 58th District? That's the question raised by Brian McNeill at the Daily Progress today. This would be an interesting race for the Charlottesville Area Realtor Association for many, many reasons. The…
Getting Involved in Waynesboro
I've long advocated for civic and community involvement. Chris Graham with the Augusta Free Press wrote a timely article last week describing the Waynesboro 2020 initiative - And yet we have so much potential. Our tradition here of hard work and high worker productivity is…
Election Day Traffic in Charlottesville area should be heavy
From C-Ville's blog - The numbers are impressive considering the total population of both areas. Charlottesville has 80 percent of its eligible population registered to vote. Albemarle County has an even bigger part, with an estimated 95 percent of their eligible population registered. “That's based…
No Crime Data for You! What are Charlottesville and Albemarle Afraid of?
From the HooK: (bolding mine) Drane, an economics/philosophy major who graduated from the University of Virginia in 1992, now lives in Baltimore, which he says has the second-highest per capita crime rate of any city in the United States. “That's kind of where my interest…
Register to Vote!
Darren Rowse (Problogger) said on Twitter the other day - I just find it strange that in many places people have had to campaign for rights to vote an in US they campaign to get ppl to show up. Every vote (assuming it gets counted)…
Read the Fine Print
In everything - real estate contracts, buyer brokerage agreements, gym memberships, massive bailout bills that may fundamentally alter our financial systems ... Sec. 8. Review. Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may…