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More Abusive Behavior From Comcast
3 May 2008 | Local Economy | 30 Comments
Michael at “The Write Side Of My Brain” describes yet another example of Comcast’s legendary abuse of their customers in a story today, detailing his own experience with unreliable service, poor customer service, and ultimately blackmail against those who decide to cease their relationship with this corporate atrocity. It amazes me that Comcast retains any […]
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PotNews: Good News A Cause For Concern
25 April 2008 | Local Economy | 1 Comment
Well after being scooped by the Washington Times and BVBL, the Potomac News is finally reporting on some developments in the residential real estate market that counter their habitual drumbeat of doom-and-gloom economic reports. Monthly home sales in Prince William County are up over 2007, and Prince William County is the only Northern Virginia jurisdiction […]
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A Real Estate Market Turnaround In Prince William
18 April 2008 | Local Economy | 28 Comments
For the second month in a row, the residential real estate market in Prince William County seem to be bucking the regional trend of a continued decrease in the number of existing home sales according to an article in today’s Washington Times. In February, Prince William County was the only jurisdiction to not see a […]
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Local Chamber Jumps On The Tax Hike Bandwagon
4 April 2008 | Local Economy, Prince William County | 27 Comments
At the same time the business community is reacting to a fairly significant commercial property tax hike in the county, the Prince William Regional Chamber of Commerce is trying to develop a rationale for advocating new taxes that would affect businesses in the upcoming special session of the General Assembly in Richmond this summer. The […]
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Let’s Have A Party!
1 April 2008 | Local Economy, Blogs | 17 Comments
The folks over at 9500 Liberty antibvbl have joined together in an effort to support the business community in Prince William County by having a party at El Portal restaurant in Woodbridge this Friday. This is a good idea, and I encourage readers to go. I understand the food […]
The Illegals Walk Away
23 March 2008 | Local Economy, Illegal Aliens | 55 Comments
While the Washington Post can easily seem to find illegal aliens who got caught up in the residential real estate boom and are under financial pressure from the exotic mortgages they obtained in order to purchases homes they couldn’t afford, they can’t seem to find anyone who can explain why this all happened:
“What can I […]
Another Local Electric Power Project
18 March 2008 | Local Economy, Prince William County | 20 Comments
The DC Examiner (yet again scooping our local paper) is reporting that LS Power Group has purchased options so it can begin to apply for the necessary permits to build a 873 megawatt natural gas-fueled power plant in Prince William County. The proposal might eliminate the rationale Dominion Power is using to justify the construction […]
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The Recovery Starts Now
14 March 2008 | Local Economy | 52 Comments
The DC Examiner reports that the number of residential foreclosures has finally stopped rising, and has dropped almost 24% in one month in Prince William County, an improvement that tops the rate of improvement in all other areas of Northern Virginia. This comes at the same time that enforcement of the Rule Of Law Resolution […]
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Residential Real Estate Market Update
10 December 2007 | Local Economy | 71 Comments
Today the Washington Post documents the continuing fallout in the residential real estate market as foreclosures continue to rise in the region, although it would have been helpful if they could more fully document the trend, rather than give us what is largely just another point-in-time snapshot of what is happening. We know this is […]
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An Interesting Approach To Spanish-Language Signs
4 December 2007 | Local Economy | 112 Comments
I got this a while back, and it’s too good to leave languishing in my inbox.
I do most of my grocery shopping at Shoppers of Manassas up by Costco. I went in the other day and was tired of seeing some sign in Spanish on the door. I walked in reached around and […]
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Does Kaine Want To Bail Out Illegal Aliens?
15 November 2007 | Local Economy, Virginia Politics | 14 Comments
Governor Kaine has finally arisen from his somnolescent attention to the problems in the residential real estate market, and as NewsChannel 8 reports tonight, intends to form a “task force” to find out how the Commonwealth can bail out homeowners who are faced with foreclosure. This problem has been mounting for several years, and […]
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Illegal Aliens And Real Estate Fraud
13 November 2007 | Local Economy, Illegal Aliens | 192 Comments
The stories of has been happening behind the scenes in the real estate industry haven’t gotten much ink, but helps to explain why so many who work in that industry have in particular become so concerned about the illegal alien issue, and active on this site. What’s happened there has threatened the livelihood of […]
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Mainstream Media: Tax Hikes Unavoidable
15 October 2007 | Local Economy, Prince William County | 25 Comments
The mainstream media seems to have collectively failed economics, otherwise we wouldn’t have the Washington Post and the Manassas Urinal-Massager both telling us that our property tax bills are inexorably going to rise just because a tax rate increase seems to be unavoidable. You’d think after last year’s extensive discussions around the budget for […]
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Comcast Tortures Customer, Customer Busts Up Office With Hammer
6 October 2007 | Local Economy, Humor & Satire | 54 Comments
Man, there are times before I switched to Verizon that I wished I could have done this:
After repeated attempts to change her phone service from Verizon to Comcast’s Triple Play during a week in August, the 75-year-old Bristow resident with a heart condition took out her frustrations at the Manassas payment center on Center Street.
Shaw […]
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Lowell Feld: Prince William Needs More Illegal Aliens
5 October 2007 | Local Economy, Illegal Aliens | 42 Comments
The folks over at Razing Kaine have an idea which would supposedly help our local real estate market: encourage more illegal aliens to buy homes in Prince William County. Well, that’s not exactly what they’re saying here, but that’s the solution that they’re effectively promoting. Haven’t these folks from Fairfax County figured out by now […]
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Residential Market Update
10 September 2007 | Local Economy, Prince William County | 83 Comments
The DC Examiner is reporting that residential real estate sales are down 35% in July 2007 as compared to July 2006, keeping Prince William at the very bottom of the Northern Virginia real estate market as the sub-prime mortgage debacle plays itself out. More than twice as many residential listings are being withdrawn than closed, […]
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The Illegals Are Moving Out
15 August 2007 | Local Economy, Illegal Aliens, Prince William County | 98 Comments
So businesses that cater to the immigrant community are seeing a significant decline in business. That’s not too surprising given that between two and five million illegal aliens enter the country annually, as compared to 1.2 legal permanent residencies being granted in 2006, so there are likely plenty of illegal aliens who see the […]
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Another Dubious Honor
20 June 2007 | Local Economy | 39 Comments
Prince William has made the CNNMoney Top 500 list, but once again this isn’t a list that we should be particularly proud of making. Two zip codes in Woodbridge and one in Manassas made the nationwide list of zip codes with the greatest number of residential foreclosure filings.
In Woodbridge, zip codes 22193 and 22191 had […]
Foreclosures Almost Double
30 May 2007 | Local Economy | 14 Comments
The spring residential market hasn’t recovered at all, inventory is rising, and not only is Prince William still the leader in active residential foreclosures, but the gap is widening between Prince William and other areas in Northern Virginia. What makes this even more painful is that if you look at the number of […]
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Trouble In Paradise
21 May 2007 | Local Economy | 16 Comments
A few years ago it became fashionable for developers to wire their projects with fiber-optic cabling, touting “lightning fast” internet access, and superior television and telephone service as a marketing technique to differentiate their McMansions from those of other developers. In some cases, that hasn’t worked out too well for homeowners, according to a Washington […]
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