It’s Match Day at UVA (and Everywhere Else)

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Traditionally UVA Resident comprise a fairly significant portion of the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate market – generally at least three bedrooms, two baths (usually) no more than 20 minutes to the UVA Medical Center …

…https://ow.ly/1bFYF Thanks to Ken Mextorf with SunTrust Mortgage for the following post:* In response to various questions from potential buyer clients who were hoping to Match at the UVA Medical School, I asked Ken to write this for me. … For those looking to buy a new home, SunTrust mortgage Doctors Loan program provides; – Financing up to 100% of the sales price of a new home. – Loan amounts up to; – $417,000 for Residents and Interns – $1.5 million for licensed medical Physicians – Fixed and Adjustable rate mortgages – No mortgage insurance (PMI) – Special banking relationships and discounts If now is the right time for you to buy speak to your local SunTrust Mortgage specialist and learn more about the Doctors Loan program and how it can work for you. … It’s intended to answer questions, and Ken happens to have a great program that is useful for UVA Medical Residents and Doctors.

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Maybe the City Should Just say No to the Meadowcreek Parkway

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Meadowcreek Parkway Staging Area in Albemarle County, along Rio Road Rather than drag this out any further , maybe the City of Charlottesville should just end the discussion and say they’re not going to support/build/move forward with their part of the Parkway. Just stand up for what you believe in and say no. (and pay VDOT back) It’s only been 43 years since they started talking about it . … Related reading: – The most comprehensive source for Meadowcreek Parkway information – Charlottesville Tomorrow – What if the Meadowcreek Parkway didn’t exist? (travel patterns and settlement patterns have changed in the past 40 years) – Heck, I’ve been writing about it since 2005 . (ignore the Daily Progress dead link) – Meadowcreek Parkway study by the Free Enterprise Forum * Photo courtesy of

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Charlottesville Real Estate Market Update – As of 15 March 2010

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Just a brief update on where we are in the Charlottesville real estate market –

What does the housing inventory volume look like in Charlottesville, Earlysville and Crozet? Here is a quarter-by-quarter comparison, this quarter versus last: PDFs:

…Here’s an interesting chart – percent of homes for sale in Charlottesville, Earlysville and Crozet that have been re-listed, as in, put back on the market so as to have the days on market reset.

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Twitter Week in Review

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RT @GetOpenSpace: Representing Charlottesville at the #Coworking Meetup at #SXSW [woo-hoo!] # RT @CVilleKim: Bake sale in Crozet at Great Valu Sunday 1-5 to benefit Jesse from the store. Bake or buy something [ https://bit.ly/9A3qNK ] # Riding my bike to show two houses in Crozet. I'm glad spring is almost here! # RT @brendengrace: @johnchapin Happy 30th … its all up-hill from here! #…

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Daylight Saving Time Saves Pedestrians’ Lives

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DOT conservatively identified a 0.7% reduction in traffic fatalities during DST, and estimated the real reduction to be 1.5% to 2%, [58] but the 1976 NBS review of the DOT study found no differences in traffic fatalities. [39] In 1995 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimated a reduction of 1.2%, including a 5% reduction in crashes fatal to pedestrians . … [59] Single/Double Summer Time (SDST), a variant where clocks are one hour ahead of the sun in winter and two in summer, has been projected to reduce traffic fatalities by 3% to 4% in the UK, compared to ordinary DST. … [62] A 2009 U.S. study found that on Mondays after the switch to DST, workers sleep an average of 40 minutes less, and are injured at work more often and more severely.

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