Five Years of Real Estate Blogging
First, thank you for reading. I’ve learned more than I could have ever expected or hoped for. Thank you for your comments and emails over the years. I’ve been a Realtor for just over eight years, a...
View ArticleRealCentralVA was Hacked
Update 18 May 2010: Isn’t this fun? I think everything is finally clean. If you’re curious, this is a little bit of information about the attack and the long-term ramifications. (Hopefully, this is the...
View ArticleRealCentralVA.com is Now More Mobile-Friendly
I have no excuse for taking this long to moblize my site. With prodding from Aera Mobile, I looked at the easy WordPress options for making my site less of a pain to read on an Android or iPhone (and...
View ArticleRe-Doing RealCentralVA.com
If I were to re-do RealCentralVA’s design, what would you suggest? Search the Charlottesville MLS Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If you like this post, please, visit RealCentralVA.comwhere this was...
View ArticleChanges at RealCentralVA
Bear with me. Changes are afoot. Suggestions, critiques, commentary welcome. Please find things that are broken and let me know. I know the search for homes page is wonky. Search the Charlottesville...
View Article7 Years of Blogging about the Charlottesville Real Estate Market
It’s been a long time since I started writing about the Charlottesville real estate market. This site has become my pensieve; it is easier to google my site for information than it is to remember what...
View ArticleMany Years of Blogging
January 4, 2005 I posted my first not-so-great-post here on RealCentralVA. So very much has changed since then that I can’t begin to list the significant, insignificant and surprisingly significant...
View ArticleA Return to Basics – RealCentralVA’s monthly newsletter
I’m trying something new. I know that not everyone wants to read everything I write and post here (there’s always something happening in Charlottesville’s real estate market – direct and tangentially)....
View ArticleYou Know You’ve Been Blogging for a Long Time When
You know you’ve been blogging for a long time when about a tenth of the links to which you’ve pointed over the past 8 years are now bad/broken ones. I installed the Broken Link Checker wordpress plugin...
View ArticleThis is a Test – A Google Plus Test
As much as anything, I’m testing Google + embedding, but also prefacing an upcoming post preliminarily titled “The Troubling Transience of the Web” But the question remains – does a poorly-proofed...
View ArticleThanks for Reading RealCentralVA in 2013 – and Hopefully 2014
Thank you. Thank you for reading this year. Your time, your insight – on and offline – is a huge part of why I do what I do here. I’m planning some stories for 2014 – obviously a bunch of new stories...
View ArticleCrozet in 2013
The more I’ve thought about this, the more I hope to make time to got back and do a wrap up for 2012, 2011, 2010 … If you’re interested in what happened in Crozet, I went through the 2013 archives...
View ArticleChanging Writing Progams: a Big Little Change
It’s funny how a seemingly small shift can have a big impact. For the past few weeks, I’ve been using Desk and I highly recommend it. I’d used the same blogging platform for nearly 8 years, since my...
View Article10 Years of Blogging
10 years ago today, I wrote the first post here on RealCentralVA. It’s been an interesting 10 years. Here’s to at least one more. Search the Charlottesville MLS Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If...
View ArticleKilling Blog Comments – A Very Tempting Thought
No one comments anymore. I’m tempted to follow NPR’s lead, and remove comments on RealCentralVA. As they noted, naturally, on Twitter: Significant stat on comment retirement: Only .003 percent of...
View ArticleSo Much Content – Podcasts, Notes, Words
I walked in a new-to-me park last week in the City of Charlottesville. Can you guess which one? Bridge through a park in Charlottesville Producing content is hard. So is practicing real estate. Blog...
View ArticleCreating Content. It’s Worthwhile Work
Writing matters. Writing is a way for me to work through ideas, publish things I send often to clients, archive thoughts, and provide, for better or worse, a track record for people to learn about...
View ArticleWriting a Bit Less on the Blog
I’m writing less here, and that’s ok. It’s not for a lack of ideas (I have a long list of drafts), or time, necessarily, but I’ve been focusing on clients so much that my drafts are remaining drafts...
View ArticleBlog Update – Still Here
I’m still here. Read, email, call – 434-242-7140. Subscribe to my monthly note. RealCentralVA isn’t going anywhere, but I am writing here less, and focusing on clients and my monthly note more. So...
View ArticleCharlottesville Areas Market Reports to Start 2020
Super-quick takeaways Good inventory is low New construction is good, and reasonably expensive We need more skilled labor to build houses Prices are up, mostly. Do your due diligence. Some houses are...
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