For those of you who love using FranklyMLS to search for homes in Charlottesville, it’s working again. I’ll spare you the gory details and who is to blame (it’s about MLS politics and shifting/evolving technical…
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Regal Theaters Doubt Charlottesville Can Build a Road
At least that’s the angle Charlottesville Tomorrow sees in the announcement that Charlottesville will be getting stadium seating. Apparently, Regal has made a business decision of their own to move ahead with an upgrade. Sufficient…
Realtors versus the MLS and the Real Estate Board
“Disclosure” in the context of online advertising means (i) advertising that contains the firm’s licensed name, the city and state in which the firm’s main office is located and the jurisdiction in which the firm holds a license or (ii) advertising that contains the licensee name, the name of the firm with which the licensee is active, the city and state in which the licensee’s office is located and the jurisdiction in which the licensee holds a license.
…In the age of the long-tail and the insatiable urge and demand for more information, we’re limiting the description of the properties we are marketing to 500 characters of text – no links, just text. (text is boring and so 1999 ) For now, the best we can do is try to educate the public to do their due diligence … tell them to Google the address … and do our very best to ensure that one of our pages comes up … in this case, the number one result is Trulia (get that, MLS committees?
MLS Search Not Working
And apparently hasn’t been working for a few days now … The Charlottesville MLS folks are aware of the problem and are now working on it. My search isn’t working, Nest‘s is not, and neither…
Diverse Solutions Introduces Partnership with Walkscore
We love being able to put in an address Walk Score, but it makes it SO much better when you don’t have to constantly look up the Walk Score for each address for each property you’re interested in buying / leasing. 2. … Even if our clients choose not to show the “Search by Walk Score†search panel, they can still enable the functionality to allow their visitors to see the Walk Score for each listing in both the search results and property details.
Innovation, Emulation and Flattery
We expect to be copied – on our signs, on how we market, on how we work with clients – and that, in and of itself, is a good thing. … Heck, I and we copy other people as often as we can … first mover is cool, but sometimes the real skills are recognizing emerging trends and technologies and then having the gumption, wherewithal and ability to implement said trends and technologies.
Online Crime Data for Charlottesville and Albemarle
Spotcrime.com has tracked crimes and provided a public, searchable interface for the City of Charlottesville for a while. Now the County of Albemarle will be providing this vital service as well . (read more at the DP ).