Archive for August, 2009

CMA and BPO and Appraisal! Oh My!

By From http://sarahiouslyspeaking.com • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, RealEstate.Local

Many REALTORS(R), and real estate industry professionals, will throw arouifnd industry jargon and just assume the consumer knows what we are talking about.  I’m going to address three words that all have to do with determining a property’s value that can be confusing to a consumer. 
First, a Comparative Market Analysis, also called a Competitive Market Analysis […]



Spotsylvania County Absorption Rate (August 2009)

By From http://fredericksburgrealestateblog.com • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, RealEstate.Local

The traditional method of calculating the absorption rate, shows that there is 8.89 months worth of inventory in Spotsylvania County.  However, as I mentioned in a previous article, you really can’t use the traditional formula for calculating inventory in the Fredericksburg real estate market right now.  That is because many, many homes that are under […]



Crabill Cries Her Way to the Top

By From http://fred2blue.com • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Media.Local

The top of the Northern Neck News that is.
Catherine Crabill never had the intentions of being a politician, but it was necessary.
“I’m a mom. That’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.”
Crabill has come under attack from national media for her now infamous “Bullet box, ballot box” speech. Two weeks ago, republicans running for state office […]



Beers of the Blue Ridge

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The September/October issue of Blue Ridge Country Magazine has a feature entitled Beers of the Blue Ridge. Author Joe Tennis reports on the growing craft beer community in the Blue Ridge Mountains region. Blue Mountain, Starr Hill, Bull & Bones, an…



Organic Farmers Seek Healthier Future – The Wall Street Journal.

By From http://kybecca.blogspot.com/ • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local
Another great reason to buy organic, it supports economically viable farming.  Here and abroad. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125119426057556421.html



Health Insurance for Dummies

By From http://fred2blue.com • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

“[I]f you don’t [stop Medicare] and I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan

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Drive By Shootings–Sposylvania, Montross, Heathsville and Some Places in Between

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

My apologies for the gap between postings but putting a new computer, camera, and photo program into the hands of a 50-something male is not much different than letting a chimpanzee change the oil in your car.”One of the most tragic things I know about…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-08-27 02:58:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Here I Stand I can Do No OtherSpotsylvania–An old house on Robert E. Lee Road. Still in use today. How many generations have called this house home?



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-08-27 02:53:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

Unknown But to GodSpotsylvania–The Confederate Cemetery. Unlike the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg even the unknown received a grave of their own here. When I see these headstones I have to wonder whether their families ever knew what happened…



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 2009-08-27 02:47:00

By From http://roadsdivergedwood.blogspot.com/ • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Photography.Local

” Field of Dreams”–Spotsylvania StyleAn old backstop standing vigil over a soybean field that was once a baseball field……or maybe it still is used for ball in the off (farming) season.