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Getting feedback from Buyer’s Agents is one of the most persistent challenges a listing agent faces, yet good feedback is absolutely crucial to understanding buyers’ mindsets to help best advise sellers.
…The trouble is, when showing forty plus houses a week, it’s that more challenging to elicit feedback from Buyers Agents …
Here’s a link to some of the new laws most applicable to Realtors. Perhaps most notable to Realtors and buyers and sellers is the new Property Owners’ Association Act .
Kaine thinks so . (thanks to Richmond Sunlight for pointing out this article ) Kaine is proposing a statewide 25-cent increase in the grantors tax, which is now 10 cents per $100 of assessed value, that owners pay on the sale of a house. … Make no mistake – Virginia’s (and the localities’) transportation systems need help; they need maintenance and they need new infrastructure – roads, bike paths, rail lines – but taxing only one segment of the population that uses the system is wrong.
Get out your best Magic 8 Ball – He also observed the largest wave of Generation Y home purchasing begins in 2012, after experts think the housing market will have turned around. Although what qualifies as an “urban core area” may vary widely to different people, it seems a safe bet to expect considerable variety in tastes in the housing market.
While biking certainly isn’t feasible for all of my trips – showing property for example – my new bikedoes allow me to cut down on a few miles almost every day – and that’s not too bad. …
If you would like more bike lanes or rail service or other transportation concerncs, take the time to tell some of the people whose voices matter (not that ours don’t – they just have bigger and better targeted microphones). Town meeting on transportation with Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds Monday, June 16 at 7 PM Albemarle County Office Building – Room A.
In what’s being billed as an efficiency move, the six member governing body will consider changing the record of board meetings from “near-verbatim†to “summary†style minutes at its Wednesday night meeting. … “Podcasting is where you would go for detail,†Catlin said, adding that the number of podcast listeners has significantly increased since the county began posting the podcasts in December 2006.