Interview With Chris Schooley
Brant Meyer interviews Chris Schooley, former Development Manager of the Belvedere Development for Stonehaus.
Charlottesville Builders – Local is Good (and Bad)
Editor's note - Guest post from a local citizen whom I agreed to keep anonymous. I can personally attest to what these guys gave back to the community. Whenever I called and asked for a few bucks for charities, they gladly gave. This isn't an…
Telling a Story of a House
It's more than the house - it's the neighborhood, too. From the HooK, shamelessly promoting one of my listings - Naming subdivisions is like playing Mad Libs. To christen your basic development, just couple an adjective or nature word (like "Hidden" or "Fox") with a…
Every Customer Counts
*Disclaimer - this is probably a tempest in a teapot, but it's a useful exercise in reputation management that directly influences business. Especially in this economy, every customer counts. A brief anatomy of how at least sixty people are less likely to eat at the…
When Forbes Says Charlottesville is Among The Best Educated Cities
They really mean the Central Virginia region (and they're one of the very few lists to state that "Charlottesville" means "Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area"). Either way, we're in mighty heady company. 1 - Boulder, CO 2 -Ann Arbor, MI 3 - Washingon, DC 4 -…
Update on New MLS Search Tool
The first two weeks have been useful since implementing the new MLS search here on RealCentralVA. Feedback has been 99% positive. Here's what I'm seeing so far - 1 - All the photos and virtual tours still aren't coming over - I think this may…
As Promised – A New Way to Search For Homes in Charlottesville
Finally. After watching my friends Jay in Phoenix and Kris in San Diego do such wonderful things with their MLS search tools, I'm finally able to announce what I believe to be the single best tool to search for homes in the Charlottesville, Virginia area*…
Foreclosures in Charlottesville – Answers to some of the Questions
Continuing the recent trend of guest posts, I've invited Ray Caddell, a local real estate broker, to clarify some of the current burgeoning questions about foreclosures, specifically in the Charlottesville market. Ray's bio probably wouldn't fit here, but suffice it to say that I respect…
New Appraisal Issues Affect Realtors
Ed. note: I'm pleased to have the following guest post by Karen Pape, a highly respected Charlottesville appraiser. Going with my belief that knowing whom to ask is one of my core competencies, I asked Karen to write a post on current appraisal issues. She…
A Great Time to Buy! (a house in Charlottesville)
I've been planning this post for a few weeks, and then the Bubble Blog had their own post about the current buyer's market. I had a long-winded, detailed analytical post outlined for today's post, and even had it about half-way written. Until I met this…