story I wrote in March<\/a>: \u201cThe neighborhood is less friendly. Everyone is wearing AirPods.\u201d<\/p>\nA client said this to me recently, and I think they\u2019re on to something. We choose isolation more now than I feel we did pre-covid, and certainly pre-AirPods. I don\u2019t have a moral to this observation.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t enter a client relationship hoping to become friends. I may<\/em> become friends with my clients after the transaction, and I always try to be friendly and relatable.<\/p>\nHaving professional detachment allows me to best advise my clients.<\/p>\n
I was driving relocating-to-Charlottesville clients around looking at homes. We\u2019d been together for a few days. At one point, I noticed in the back seat that she was crying. I asked what was wrong, and he said that the houses we had seen were so inferior to those they were accustomed to. Add on to that that they were coming from upstate New York; at dinner the previous evening as they were coming to terms with the Charlottesville market, their server had commented something like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re from New York? Everything here must seem so cheap to you!\u201d NYC ? New York.<\/p>\n
I listened, empathized, understood, and we uncomfortably adjusted their search price, and they found the right home. Expectations matter.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m here to represent your best interests. Simple.<\/p>\n
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I wrote my first monthly note 10 years ago. I\u2019m asking you for suggestions on how to improve this note for the next decade. Suggestions welcome, just reply to this email.<\/p>\n
While I\u2019m asking: I need someone to redo RealCentralVA.com and RealCrozetVA.com, both will be 20 years old next year and are suffering from 20 years of bloat. Help, please.<\/p>\n
What I\u2019m Listening To<\/strong><\/h5>\nPay attention to the lasts<\/strong>. My wife sent me something on Instagram that talked about how parents pay attention to the firsts, and neglect to pay attention to the lasts. My younger one and I would run outside to wave to the train when it went by, and we did that every time. Until she didn\u2019t want to anymore.<\/p>\nI do that now with my grandsons and will keep doing it until he stops wanting to. Darn it.<\/p>\n
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Next month: <\/strong>finding market equilibrium, looking at 2025, and hopefully a story suggested by one of you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re entering the typically quiet period of the Charlottesville area real estate market, when the people who put their homes on the market really want or need to sell, and the people who are actively looking at homes are often in a time crunch to buy or have the luxury of time flexibility. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[27059,56872,56873,11209,20720,3894,11258],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-130702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","tag-charlottesville","tag-doorbells","tag-doubletapping","tag-market","tag-note","tag-november","tag-worst"],"yoast_head":"\n
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