Darn you, Steve Jobs!
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Hang out with the cool kids
And help build a house for Habitat for Humanity.
Death by a thousand cuts
how to tax new construction (and thereby purchasers of new construction) yet another way. Is this where I pull out the argument that, “in this time of the housing market’s transition, this is not the time to put further strains on housing affordability”?I’ve read this bill four times now and still can’t understand why this is needed…. In addition to all other fees imposed by law, beginning July 1, 2008, every local building department shall charge and collect a fee for its issuance of a final certificate of occupancy for any building or any structure, as defined in § 36-97, that is neither exempt from taxation by law nor actually valued at less than $100,000 at the time such final certificate of occupancy is issued. Each such fee shall become due and payable no later than 90 days from the date that the local building department issued the final certificate of occupancy associated with such fee.b.
Being number one for this search is good
Charlottesville, VA real estate statistics
More foreclosures than we’re used to
As seen in this week’s HooK.
Google’s speedy indexing of pages not always a good thing
The problem is that you can’t rank a page that has just been created because it has no backlinks so Google artificially inflates the rankings of the recently-created pages based on historical data and the few backlinks that are detected.And this one:And to think…all you had to do was comment on this blogger / REALTOR’s post and you could have actually ENHANCED your online reputation…. Google stuffed this post into the #2 spot for that search (Todd Kaufman assessor) – 11 minutes after I posted it…From Merv:The public wants transparency in this industry that has been missing since dirt. Real estate Bloggers are bringing transparency and consumers love it.The unnamed government official is making a name for himself that he really doesn’t want (actually, his name is all over the planet)…. This is going to be a watershed debate.This all hit the proverbial fan on 29 December; Jay has a great recap.English posts that contain “todd Kaufman” per day for the last 30 days.I wonder when there will be either true main stream media coverage or an official response.
A dubious argument
Hmmm ….Some developers argue that cash proffers are to blame for the current slump in the housing market because the cost is passed on to buyers in the purchase price.They may be part of the equation making housing more expensive, but to say that “proffers are to blame” reeks of disingenuous lobbying.