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Appealing Your Tax Assessment

I have had several clients and friends ask me about their most recent Albemarle County Tax Assessments (just sent to home owners yesterday) and if there is any way to fight the numbers. I found a really great article that summarizes everything you need to know about this subject and then some. Many thanks to Sellsius Real Estate Blog! Some

Posted on January 4, 2009 Leave a Comment

The State of Our Market

I have gotten several individual requests recently from both buyers and sellers to give them specific numbers and data about the current Charlottesville market. I have run some numbers and gotten together some data, but also wanted to just make some general statements as well. We are currently experiencing a buyer’s market. What this means is that there are more

Posted on March 10, 2008 Leave a Comment

Should the Listing Agent Show/Sell my Home?

I decided that a great way to start blogging about the things that an average real estate consumer wants to know was to pull questions left over at Trulia Voices and other real estate forums and respond to them here. The question from the title of this post was left very recently and seemed like one I had heard enough

Posted on March 7, 2008 Leave a Comment

“Can I Buy/Sell a Home Without Being Present?”

Another question posed on Trulia but that I’ve been asked before and thought was relevant; “Can I buy or sell a home without being physically present?” Typically, the answer is yes. If you inform your closing company or attorney early in the process, it is usually not extremely difficult to draft up documents that allow a “power of attorney” in

Posted on March 2, 2008 Leave a Comment

Foreclosures 101

I have had 2 people call me in the past month who wanted to search the foreclosure market for a deal so I’m writing this to explain how foreclosures work and why they’re not for everyone. Foreclosures are becoming more abundant nationwide in the wake of the major shift in the U.S. mortgage market, but they’re not for the faint-hearted

Posted on February 27, 2008 Leave a Comment