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Free Enterprise Forum’s Reality Check Report
The Free Enterprise Forum's "Reality Check" Report - Charlottesville, VA – Albemarle County's Places29 Master Plan for the North US 29 corridor under counts cost by over $175,000,000 (40.5%) according to the ‘Reality Check Report' released today by the Free Enterprise Forum. Using cost data…
GENERAL REAL ESTATE
Sued For Blogging about Publicly Available Information
Are they kidding? From my Apple dictionary:absurd adjective what an absurd idea! preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, laughable, risible, idiotic, stupid, foolish, silly, inane, imbecilic, insane, harebrained, cockamamie; unreasonable, irrational, illogical, nonsensical, incongruous, pointless, senseless; informal crazy, daft. antonym reasonable, sensible. What am I talking about?…
GENERAL REAL ESTATE
Why Use a Realtor – decoding NAR-speak
Inspired by these two comments on the BHB, today I'm going to respond to/pick apart the National Association of Realtors' Why use a Realtor? page. I hope that few consumers had read the referenced page on Realtor.com. Numbers two, nine and ten in particular jump…
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Charlynar Homes update
Who knew? Regarding my story last week about Charlynar Homes and blogs' changing accountability for companies - it took less than two days for Google to find out about Charlynar Homes. Those of you with no current web presence, be aware - one unsatisfied customer,…
GENERAL REAL ESTATE
Transportation and land use
Might transportation reform be nigh? Heck, just visit Bacon's Rebellion - there are at least three articles there worth reading. Related reading. The bills are here. There is never going to be either a quick or an easy fix. Take note that there are an…
GENERAL REAL ESTATE
Transparency in real estate fees
Realtors don't make tons of money. Seriously. Take for example what happens when I accept a referral from a relocation company. Say, for example that the Seller is offering 3% commission on a $250,000 house. $250,000 x 3% = $7500 If I made that much,…