The wife is on the phone now with the Great Wolf Lodge, home of quite possibly the worst customer service ever. Not only did we have a host of problems, they overcharged us! Three phone calls later (and at least three different managers), they have removed (supposedly) the incorrect charges have been corrected.
Date Archives April 2005
New blogger blog
Another real estate blog for the Charlottesville area?
Green building
I met a potential client this week who had a particularly keen interest in Green building. Nice article in the Washingtonpost.com today. the outlook for what is called “green building†— that is, designing homes or other structures to be energy efficient, water conserving, and built in a way that minimizes the impact on the environment and is protective of indoor air quality, among other things — is the sunniest it has ever been, according to advocates and housing experts.
The HooK’s real estate issue
In the meantime – A whole-house checkup checklist Is Albemarle County to blame for growth/prices/etc? Economist Dean Baker was so worried about a housing bubble that he sold his Washington, D.C., condominium– at three times the price he paid for it– and rented an apartment instead. Now, about two years later, he’s still waiting for the bubble to pop. And lastly, this quote. “â€ÂNo, we definitely don’t see any bubble bursting here,“ says Dave Phillips, Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors CEO.
Gas prices
Gas prices
Tax Day!
The day when the self-employed either stroke another large check, as they are not subject to “withholding,†which softens the blow for most, this is the day when the government takes our money to be spent frivolously and unwisely…. The Lord says you shall contribute one-tenth and He says, ‘If I prosper you 10 times as much you will give 10 times as much.’… — Ronald Reagan Most [tax revisions] didn’t improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers. — Ronald Reagan We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.