The Importance of Estate Planning

Many people believe that estate planning is only for the wealthy. A person who owns real estate, stocks, bonds or personal effects has an estate. Everyone should have a will, as it dictates how and by whom one’s final wishes are carried out when it comes to their estate. Nobody expects to die today or […]

Around the Bend: The enemy is human

Immediately after the shootings in Tucson, people held forth on how the nasty rhetoric in our current politics might encourage violent acts like this. Mark Shields, a public tv commentator and as reasonable a man as you can find, believed it could influence unstable
characters.

Deputy attacked by hopping mad rooster

This one is straight out of the Dukes of Hazzard, folks. Yesterday (January 30), an Albemarle County Sheriff’s Office deputy fell prey to an infuriated rooster while serving a warrant on a person who failed to show up for a court date. Deputy Tom Wood caught the force of the rooster’s attack below the belt before retaliating with a can of mace that proved ineffective.

CAAR 2011 Year End Market Report

Charlottesville Area 4th Quarter 2011 Highlights: Median sales price for the region is down 0.4% over last quarter and 3.6% from the Q4-2010 to $240,000 New listings were down 20.3% from the same period last year. Homes took an average 9 days longer to sell compared to Q4-2010 with average Days on Market (DOM) of […]