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Why Blog

At a Realtor function the other day in the midst of asking for money, another Realtor mentioned that she was trying to start a blog….  I have learned so much from the reading and researching that I do on a daily basis that I am far more aware and knowledgeable than I was before I started blogging….  Starting to blog with the sole purpose being to make money and business is, in my opinion, the wrong reason to do so.  One of the best aspects of the blogosphere is the transparency that comes with writing in public – if you’re wrong, they will tell you so….  (There are plenty of real estate “blogs” in the Charlottesville area to which I could refer you).Blogging is rewarding because of the relationships that are formed with other bloggers – real estate and otherwise….  Blogging gives one the opportunity to form relationships with others whom you may never meet, but who contribute via insightful and consistent commentary….  Technology, agency (dual and single), land use and development, local and state politics, market trends, emerging trends, these are subjects about which the avThis is not a derivative post of Greg’s recent post – it’s just a coincidence….  A fuller answer is more complicated than that, but the whole issue is trumped by an even larger point: I don’t care.I agree wholeheartedly.

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Monday reading -09-11-06

Bloggers and JournalistsLiving in the richest county …You need good credit for a mortgage …  and a job.If I had $1.3 million dollars …  I’d buy a farmlet.Regional tax plans – good!Interesting development in rural areas -v- need for power.  Merv has moreGas prices drop – but why is gas in Charlottesville/Crozet still thirty cents higher than Waynesboro?

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Good for something

At least Real Central Va is good for something.  🙂 – from The Times Online:Given the largely parochial nature of the content of such US-based sites, quite how much of interest they are to British and other European readers also remains to be seen.  But they may well be worth flicking through in an idle moment.Apparently I’ve gone international!  A simple case of “right place in the right time.”  Now, this is another instance of a need for the sideblog.

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