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Some of my best work has come either early in the morning or late at night.
I have to show houses during “normal” hours, but I negotiate, write, think, create interact … at all hours.
… Enter Charlottesville Night Owls :
… I am consistently amazed at the cool things and creative people in Charlottesville.
With prodding from Aera Mobile , I looked at the easy Wordpress options for making my site less of a pain to read on an Android or iPhone (and to a lesser degree, Blackberry). I installed another plugin a few weeks ago, but changed this morning to WP Touch at the suggestion of copyblogger . … There is some tweaking yet to be done, but this is an exponentially better mobile-reading experience. Thanks to Safari’s user agent switcher, I can easily emulate what my Charlottesville real estate blog looks like on an iPhone:
Second issue, (The builder) missed his 11-month walk through of our home and it was encroaching upon our 12- month (final inspection of the home), so my husband and I agreed to have an official home inspector come into our home (as we know nothing about home construction). … Upon hearing the findings and what they meant we conducted research for remediation and also contacted (The builder) and set up an appointment to go over the findings of the inspection (the inspector also disclosed he had conducted the radon tests in (The Neighborhood) and stated that (The builder) knew he had a radon issue because one of his home sales almost did not go through until (The builder) remediated the issue). … We immediately contacted a mediator to address the issue (when the location of the home was made known to the remediator (Radon Company), the owner stated he remediated the other homes in (The Neighborhood) and this could have been prevented/mediated during the building process or prior to sale of the home if already constructed). … (The builder) returned an email that stipulated he would accept no responsibility for the radon issue but agreed to put 250 dollars towards the remediation, “because we were good people and had contributed to the neighborhoodâ€. The total cost of inspection and remediation is 1175 dollars.
This should be interesting news to those considering relocating to the City of Charlottesville: Consolidating to have one middle school would also allow the division to combine its administrative offices and stop leasing city buildings for certain programs. … Preschool programs are located at the six elementary schools, but having one middle school will necessitate that preschoolers move into one location to have enough space for the fifth-graders.
…asked parent Kathryn Buzzoni, a Fluvanna County resident who has a kindergartener at Venable Elementary and was concerned that those costs could result in a cutback in other services.
I’m sure there are blogs in Charlottesville discussing this from the parents’ point of view, but I haven’t been able to locate them.
The Glenmore community has a single source of public drinking water, a 4-mile pipeline that runs along U.S. 250 east of Charlottesville. However, if Albemarle officials decide to add a backup storage tank, they will use $2 million of the county’s capital funds rather than ask the developers or Glenmore residents to pay for it.
“ It is not something that is needed to provide [water] for Glenmore,†said James Bowling IV, legal counsel for the Albemarle County Service Authority. “ It’s a convenience [but] one that you would certainly call a necessity if there was an emergency.â€
Have a look at this: These Are The 15 Housing Markets That Will Get Crushed The Hardest By 2012 .
Note that the traditional hotspots are there, and nowhere in Virginia is. And then there’s this – Charlottesville MSA home prices are predicted to rise in 2011. 
I’ll let you know in 2013 if they’re right.
Charlottesville Tomorrow has the story : Hinting at potentially more growth of the local intelligence community, the man who is overseeing the relocation of more than 800 Defense Intelligence Agency employees to Albemarle County said he expects the transition to be completed by March. “The largest single group of DIA people outside of the Washington metropolitan area will soon be in Charlottesville,†said Phil Roberts, chief of field support for Rivanna Station and a 29-year agency veteran. I’d wager that about half of those moving here for DIA purchased homes. … Related : – NGIC and DIA – What’s the Impact on the Charlottesville Real Estate Market? – May 2010 – NGIC and DIA coming to Charlottesville – October 2009 – NGIC and DIA – Who’s Moving Here? – November 2010 – Some Homes for sale near the NGIC and DIA facilities