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 […]

Lease Purchase Agreements 

In today’s challenging real estate market, sellers may be forced to relocate before their home is sold and leave an empty house behind. Not only is this a financial burden, but empty homes are more difficult to sell and while finding a tenant is an option, this solution may cause problems if the renter does […]

Life in a College Town

When retiree Sharon Baiocco and just-getting-started Amber Ward moved to Charlottesville, the University of Virginia was a factor in both their choices. Baiocco, a former dean at a university in another state, and her sports-loving high-school-teacher husband, John, knew they wanted to be on the East Coast near their children in Richmond and New Jersey. […]