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Latest RealPodVA is up. This was a fun one. Talking about market data for the Charlottesville MSA, ARMs, the future of the real estate market. Thoughts, comments, insights, suggestioncous welcomed. Truly. ARMs Big Short The Future Market Update The damage acronyms do to America Cost of new construction Murder rooms We have a lot of fun with this podcast, with Dave Stipe with Rockfish and…
tl;dr on the current state of the Charlottesville market Quite a few houses in select pockets of the market are moving quickly Example: Since 1 January 2018, in Charlottesville + Albemarle, 1,296 not-new-construction homes went under contract (no way of telling how many of those contracts fell apart; a couple of those would have been mine). 504 of those 1,296 had cumulative days on market of 7 days…
Once again, Reddit provides a good writing prompt. I find that if I spend a great deal of time answer one person’s questions, others may find the answers and conversation useful as well. I’m going to answer a few of your questions (I’m Jim; I’m a realtor) Would folks recommend renting short term to figure out where my wife, who’s in HR, would land a…
Our eighth podcast is out. This was a fun podcast. We talked about housing as a luxury good, cash transactions, internet as a utility, and should you get a home inspection every couple of years? Listen and subscribe here in iTunes. Once we get a few more episodes under our belt, I’ll start asking for reviews. Transcript (without edits, post-transcription)
This month Nearly-mid-year stats and projections Ignorance & Ownership Seeing inside homes Empathy and body language What i’m reading Blogs I have no idea what I meant when I wrote “faucet;” I’m hoping it comes back to me before I publish. Interested in joining the dozens of monthly readers? (some of them even email me thanking me for the note … really) – sign up…
A few thoughts as I’m in Portland this week for a quasi-real estate conference. I said on Twitter Had an interesting conversation with my Lyft driver this morning. Topics he raised: – unsustainable housing market – gentrification – rental properties – unsat infrastructure – rising population/too few housing options – no good solutions. We covered a lot in 19 minutes. I felt bad for the…
The Podcast continues. This week, we discussed curb appeal conveying to good people, finding happiness, and how to spend a couple thousand dollars when prepping a house for the market. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re going to start having guests. This is a fun project.