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It’s being called an affordable home crisis. The American dream of home ownership has become elusive, especially in robust communities like Charlottesville, Virginia. Currently there are only 38 listings under…
Rivers are the life blood of the land. From the tiniest spring head that sends a trickle down the mountainside, becoming a stream, a brook, a fast river in the…
Good signs for 2025 Walk score? Nah..not unless you mean walking in the woods Convenient to shopping? Not really but you begin to realize that 25 minutes to the grocery…
The first carriage to pull into the circle drive in front of Frascati in 1823 was very likely bringing James Barbour and his wife, Lucy, to the just completed home…
I wrote this article about my parents in 2014. They are both gone now but I find myself in those same happy shoes these days, enjoying the fruits of our…
Land close in to Charlottesville can be quite expensive with demand for nice building sites being in very high demand. A good building lot up to five acres for a…
Orange County was established in 1734 and was the largest county that has ever existed in America, "The states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia were once part…
Charlottesville Real Estate covers a lot of ground. From a four story condo with panoramic Blue Ridge views, to an historic plantation with roots to Thomas Jefferson, it’s all here. We are…
When you’re 29 there are still a lot of new things that might be coming your way. The years were longer then and the end was not in sight. My…
When I first looked at Firefly Farm in 1985 its 13 acres were overgrown with broom sage, vicious blackberries, and two foot tall cedars. I had walked it, carefully avoiding…
