Changing Writing Progams: a Big Little Change
It’s funny how a seemingly small shift can have a big impact. For the past few weeks, I’ve been using Desk and I highly recommend it. I’d used the same blogging platform for nearly 8 years, since my blog looked like this (which wasn’t a bad…
Many Years of Blogging
January 4, 2005 I posted my first not-so-great-post here on RealCentralVA. So very much has changed since then that I can't begin to list the significant, insignificant and surprisingly significant shifts in the real estate writing space (I was one of the first and some…
Returning to Local Real Estate Blogging – Writing about Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate
Maybe I have gotten a bit astray, maybe I haven't but re-focusing can't be a bad thing. (transcript after the break) That being said ... I have been writing and sharing at Posterous a fair amount lately. What is Posterous, you ask? Posterous lets you…
Charlottesville Media Appearance – 22 July 2009 – WINA
Tune into Coy Barefoot's Charlottesville - Right Now! on WINA from five to five thirty today as I and one of my Nest Partners, Keith Davis, discuss the Charlottesville real estate market. Topics we may cover - - Where the Charlottesville real estate market is…
A Conversation about the Charlottesville Real Estate Market
Two years ago, I would have been terrified with the prospect of filling an hour of radio time. This past Sunday on WNRN's Morning Wake Up show, I think we could have done two. :) We covered a lot of information on Sunday in a…
Blog Wayback – You’re Going about It all Wrong – Or How to Search for Homes in Charlottesville (Without a Realtor)
Blog Wayback Series Continued ... From March 2009: You're Going about It all Wrong - Or How to Search for Homes in Charlottesville (Without a Realtor)How do you search for homes? In Charlottesville or anywhere else? I got a call recently from a buyer who…
What is RealCentralVA?
Thanks to Marijean and WCAV for the profile during their Blog of the Week segment. Know this - some of the most informative, educational and entertaining contributions to this blog are provided by the commenters, and for each and every one of them, I am…
What Do You Want to Know?
The end of the First Quarter is (nearly) here. I'll be running numbers in the next few days ... what do you want to know? - Price per square foot? - Break down of attached/single family/condo? - New construction versus resale? - Days on market?…
Moving to Charlottesville?
I randomly and fortuitously met some potential clients last week. As I was finishing a showing, a couple drove by and asked if we were having an open house. My client assured me that we were finished, she introduced me to them, (as a "great…
Albemarle County Property Tax Rate set to Increase
It's unconscionable that governments would seek to raise taxes in the midst of a recession. Currently the tax rate in Albemarle County is 71 cents - meaning that a homeowner living in a house assessed for $100k would pay $710 per year. Assessments have dropped…