Questions to ask a potential real estate agent (via Lifehacker)No more Crossing GuardsPaint Preview Tool (Hat tip: Consumerist)Bamboo is the new Granite10 Ways to build a downpayment (HT: Consumerist)The best and worst real estate marketsHousemath – how much does it really cost to own a home? (not yet in Charlottesville, but still interesting)How to go greenAnd oh, yes. Schools are closed tomorrow.
Date Archives January 2007
Brace yourselves for the snowstorm
Those of you who get snow regularly, you may commence scoffing and snickering. Three inches of snow is a veritable blizzard. You too, Kristal.Stock up on bread, milk, water and sterno. However, Accuweather says:Considerable cloudiness with snow with little or no accumulation in the afternoonWill Channel 29 break out the red jackets?Will schools be closed?
Search for homes on Yahoo
Data is not complete, but it’s a start …… Via the Yahoo Blog. Here are Charlottesville Schools (Albemarle County, while not part of Charlottesville City is included in “Charlottesville.” That you can refine by Public, Private and Charter is great.The Future of Real Estate Marketing has an interesting interview with Michael Yang, GM of Yahoo Real Estate.
Transportation and land use
Take note that there are an awful lot of components that will affect home- and land-owners.Last night, ASAP hosted a forum to discuss TDRs (Transfer of Development Rights). Before your biases get you all bound up, take the time (2 hours!)… It is far better to listen to all sides of the debate first, then come to conclusions, as all sides have their own agendas and interests. Filter these agendas for the truth and, thanks to Cville Tomorrow, go straight to the horse’s mouth.Interesting comparison between Loudoun’s and Albemarle’s proffers.
Charlottesville blogger ponders City Council run
Joining with Barack Obama and John Edwards, local attorney, area native and blogger, Jennifer McKeever ponders a run for City Council. So long as she’s in it solely for the glory and the money, she’ll be alright.
Blog loading faster
After literally months of research into system performance techniques and I/O tuning we have rolled out a series of changes to our servers that have immediate and beneficial effects…. This means that for those users that experienced constant performance problems with our server speeds that your problems should be significantly reduced.Of course this isn’t a magic bullet, and we still have servers that have load spikes and other various problems and issues that go hand in hand with providing shared hosting services. We should have more good news to report in the coming weeks and there is still much to be done to provide better uptime with fewer interruptions to critical services.Also, as many of you may know a few months back we leased a new datacenter that is solely for our use and is only 200 yards from our offices…. Most of our intermittent downtime has been because of this enormous move.Things are improving and long term problems are starting to subside.
Real estate photographers in Charlottesville area?
I’m looking to find the best ones in the area and compile a list in one place – perhaps here, even. – Are you a real estate photographer with a portfolio online (like this one)? – Are you a Realtor who has used one (or two or three) with success?- Are you a Seller who sold your home yourself (or had a friend who did, etc.)?Unfortunately (or fortunately), most of the google searches for real estate photographers in Charlottesville lead to this blog. :)If you fit any of the above criteria, please leave the information (and pertinent links) in the comments – or contact me.