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New Search Tool not Working

I know it, but don’t seem to have access to after-hours support, so this will have to wait until Monday. In the meantime, if you want to check it out and search for homes in the Charlottesville area, click on this direct link which does appear to be functioning rather than the framed-in version found elsewhere.

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Charlottesville Realtor Association to write Neighborhood pages on Wikipedia

Courtesy of C-Ville – Savage emphasizes the project is still taking shape, but the basic concept is that CAAR would begin a Wikipedia entry with some information about a neighborhood and expect “homeowner associations, people who live or used to live in the neighborhood, realtors, and other locals to contribute.” … First, placing editorial power in the hands of readers, sometimes called crowdsourcing, does not entirely eliminate the possibility that “realtors could go on Wikipedia solely as a venue to advertise themselves.”

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Charlottesville Real Estate Company Streamlines

Now as we face inevitable – and desperately needed – cleansing of the real estate hobbyists from the entire industry, they are among the first to recognize and react to current and projected economy. … And I suspect that this is but the beginning; Real Estate III has so many offices that one or two (or probably even three or four) won’t matter so much in the grand scheme … but for the companies that have only one office …

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I Can Think of Only a Couple Reasons to Delete Comments

For just a brief moment, I’ll pull from the archives some advice I learned in August of 2006 about pulling posts that can be applied to comments as well – One of the best (and worst) parts of blog writing is that the author can be held accountable for each and every word written. … If you’re a Realtor, spend the time educating yourself at Jay’s post and elsewhere about the threat potentially posed to us by our own Associations.

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The New York Times spends 36 Hours in Charlottesville

(The map is zoomable at the site) The Times starts with : ARRIVING in Charlottesville from the lush, rural Virginia countryside, you almost feel like you’ve stepped back into ancient Rome. The Rotunda, the centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia , was of course built to resemble the Parthenon and the neo-Classical facades of the college buildings seem to be right out of Caesar’s time.

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