The Rappahannock Independent Film Festival started today, and continues through the weekend. A young friend of ours was in a short film created by a fellow high schooler, so we went down to the showing at the library tonight to support the local talent…

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

“[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

(Join 1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Departments today, before it’s too [...]

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…

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?

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…