My analysis will come tomorrow.
Date Archives April 2005
Property taxes
“What is all the money going for?†the 60-year-old translator wondered last week. “I’m not seeing it in better services…. The biggest single reason for the tax increases is school spending, which is not surprising, since education has long dwarfed other items in local budgets.
Water meeting
A special joint meeting of the RWSA Board of Directors, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, ACSA Board of Directors, and Charlottesville City Council will be held on Monday, April 18, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. in Conference Room A at the Albemarle County Office Building – 5th Street, 1600 5th Street. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the present status and future options of the Community Water Supply Plan with federal and state regulatory agencies of interest. The meeting notice has been posted on the RWSA website Home page.
Busy day
Suffered a release of contract on one property only to put it back on the market and receive multiple offers…. Perhaps I should do this more often!
How not to run a business
I had the occasion to visit the Northridge branch of the University of Virginia Medical Center yesterday for an injury sustained Sunday in my soccer game…. Shown to the good doctor’s office about 2:20 – not bad, only five minutes tardy. The warm-up stalling act takes my blood pressure and temperature to ensure that my possibly broken toe had not affected anything else, then leaves, assuring me that she will be with me “shortly.  I leave and return this morning at 8:25 because they don’t take their first appointments (I am not able to get one of those – wish they hadn’t told me I wasn’t special enough) until 8:30.
Different markets, different strategies
Our market remains so strong and fast-moving that print media advertising is a “feel-good” measure that often is a small part of a marketing strategy designed to sell a home. Many leads come from sign calls and many come from personal websites (jduncanrealestate.com), company sites (century21manley.com) many come from corporate sites (Century 21’s site)…. Other markets place much more value on sign calls as well as their weekly real estate magazine.Just goes to show that one must learn and adapt to one’s market…. Just goes to show that one must learn and adapt to one’s market.
Gas prices
If gas prices stay at or near this level, does somebody out there have the time and knowledge to do some back-of-the-envelope math? … If gas prices stay at or near this level, does somebody out there have the time and knowledge to do some back-of-the-envelope math?