From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Limited-Service Listings Come With a Full-Service Contracts

May 30, 2007

Being in real estate, people love to share their real estate stories with us.  It is always interesting to hear the perspective of others.  One such recently shared story involved a couple who had listed their home with a limited-service real estate brokerage. Basically, for a fee, this company would put the home in the [...]

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Should You Make Improvements to Your Home Before Selling It?

May 24, 2007

One question that I get asked during every listing presentation is, “Is there anything I should do to the house?” Usually, the owner is referring to whether or not they should repaint, or move/remove furniture, or change landscaping, make minor repairs, etc. The short answer is– YES. Two or three years ago, the market was [...]

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The Zebra Falls Into a Black Hole

May 23, 2007

. . . and we’re back. For those who may not have noticed, I have been having a horrific time with my host server.  The blog was available intermittently over the weekend, and went down completely on Monday afternoon.  Service was finally restored this morning some time.  For a while there, I feared that the [...]

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April Stats for Charlottesville Area Real Estate

May 16, 2007

It’s about that time once again. Time to check out the monthly real estate sales statistics for the Charlottesville area. Below are the monthly statistics for April and the year-to-date stats compared to 2006. Let us see what we can see: April 2007 April 2006 YTD 2007 YTD 2006 Breakdown: The more things change, the [...]

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How the Time-Value of Money Can Help You Sell Your House

May 10, 2007

The Bawldguy is one of my favorites. Not just because he used to be an umpire, either. Jeff is one of my favorites because it is obvious that he “gets it,” and more importantly, he is very good at helping others “get it” too. I saw in my RSS reader his most recent post regarding [...]

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Fluvanna Opts for Colonial-Style Shopping?

May 10, 2007

In what I found to be one of the more interesting recent happenings regarding economic development in Fluvanna County, the Planning Commission recommended the rezoning of 28 acres of land on route 600 from A-1 to B-1 in order to make way for a Williamsburg-style pedestrian shopping center. From the Fluvanna Review: Planners Okay Pedestrian [...]

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Could the Charlottesville Market be Hurt by Weak ARMs?

May 4, 2007

The C-Ville Weekly interviewed me recently about adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and the effect they may have on foreclosure rates in the Charlottesville area and the area market overall. The article ran in this week’s edition. Read the C-Ville article and let me know what you think. As with most journalistic endeavors, they asked a lot [...]

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1 Down, 3 To Go

May 3, 2007

I received an email from CCIM informing me that I passed my CI 101 test.  I obtained a 92% on the final test.  Not bad, I’ll take it.  Now I need to plan and prepare for CI 102, and continue my journey to the dark side.

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Zebra Returns from Roaming the Desert

May 3, 2007

In case you have been wondering why there hasn’t been a lot of activity on the blog for the last week, it was due to the fact that I was spending time in the Arizona desert visiting my Grandma.  She lives in Lake Havasu City, AZ. It was interesting, as it was my first trip [...]

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