Buying a Home Timeline

What’s the process and timeline for buying a home in Charlottesville? This is a rough guide that incorporates some of the steps. *   Meet the Realtor (really, start here. Also, I am one.) Define your criteria (my survey is a good place to start) Prequalify with a good local lender Look at homes Refine your criteria Look at some more houses Make the offer. Negotiate…

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Monday Morning Reads | Smart Homes, Crash Coming? NIMBYs

A few stories to get your (and my) week started.   Crash Coming? The Charlottesville Pride Festival this past weekend was a lot of fun. 10 years after Lehman, is another crisis brewing? Household Estimates Conundrum Alive and Well The Financial Crisis at 10: Will We Ever Recover? Our estimates suggest that the economy is unlikely to regain this large output loss and GDP is unlikely…

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RealPodVA – Simpsons, Voting, Getting Fired

If you’ve not been listening to RealPodVA, I get it. But I’d also ask you to take a few minutes to lend us an ear. Subscribe here. Transcription Jim Duncan: I’m Jim Duncan, Nest Realty, RealCentralVA, RealCrozetVA. Sitting here with Bart and we’re missing Dave. Bart: Yeah. Bart: I’m Bart from Scrimmage Play. We don’t have Dave Stipe from Rockfish today, he’s very busy. But…

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Radon Testing and Storms

Be mindful when doing radon tests. I got the following email from Robert Foster of Trebor Home Inspections, and am posting with his permission. The Virginia Radon Coordinator sent out the following As hurricane Florence bears down on the mid-Atlantic region, this message serves as a reminder that you should NOT conduct short term radon testing during major storm events. Several hours of abnormally low…

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