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I’ve tried to write this story about the National Association of Realtors’ revisions and I can’t seem to write anything new that I or others haven’t said before.
@mortgagereports How will they help? More accurate data is good, but who trusts the NAR? My take is: national is irrelevant,local is crucial
There’s a bit more after the break, but the above sums it up.
The series continues –
At Nest, we have been slowly releasing our Live Where you Love video series … we have decidedly not overtly branded these as we intended these videos to be for you rather than explicit marketing for us.
If you’re thinking about buying a home or selling a home in the Charlottesville area in the spring, these are three stories of interest: 1 – When do homes come on the market in Charlottesville? Short answer: Spring. Longer answer: look at the data. 2 – Preparing to Sell a House in Charlottesville – Step one: start the process now. (get the right representation) 3…
We’ve been releasing videos of life in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas.
It’s impossible to capture what life is like in these areas, but we hope that people find them representative of life in Ivy, Charlottesville, Crozet …
– Life in Charlottesville video
– Life in Ivy, just west of Charlottesville video
We deliberately did not overly brand these; these are for you.
While the internet is the new infrastructure, mobile infrastructure is crucial. I’ve had clients in the Charlottesville – Albemarle area choose to not buy property because 1) hard-wired internet accessibility – fiber (very limited), or DSL or cable – is not available and/or 2) Reliable cell phone service is not available (GSM AT&T and T-Mobile) tends to be worse than CDMA – US Cellular, nTelos, Verizon, Sprint).
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that “The Albemarle Board of Supervisors has voted to pay a consultant to determine if the county’s existing policy on cell towers will impede implementation of the next generation of wireless communications services.”
Infrastructure – wired and wireless is crucial for quality of life, competitiveness and economic development. Let’s hope the County figures this out.
Once again I’ve asked the expert to explain something we’ve seen in the news recently, and put it in context for those of us in Charlottesville Thanks, Matt. Much has been made of the reinstatement as of October 1, 2011 of the FHA high cost loan limits. In actuality, this will have no effect on Central Virginia borrowers. To provide some background, if we exclude…
Take a few minutes and watch Jon Stewart skewer TARP and then the bill (S.1867 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012) that will allow for indefinite detention of Americans. How very unAmerican.