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http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/sep/20/yahoo-real-estate-charlottesville-best-place-live-ar-1324519/ Yahoo's survey notes Charlottesville and the surrounding counties' beautiful landscape, low unemployment, and wonderful amenities as reasons why it rated this area #1.  I would also add the amazing giving spirit as evidenced by todays United Way  http://www.dayorcaring.org and the announcement that The Dave matthews Band and CACF will each give $50,000 to help the earthquake relief efforts in Loisa County, VA http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2011/sep/20/dmb-cacf-give-quake-aid-ar-1324756/

I sent a Facebook message http://www.facebook.com/mguthrie7 and Twitter mrg7175 message out this morning sharing the news that RealtyTrac released data saying August Foreclosures increased by 7% over July.  They also shared what could have been encouraging news that the foreclosures were 33% less than August of 2010.  This news is unfortunately tempered by the fact that the dip can be explained by the robosigning problems lenders faced this time last year.  Here is a link to the Keeping Current Matters blog site http://kcmblog.com/2011/09/06/5-great-reasons-to-sell-your-house-today-2/ that says that the increase of foreclosures along with other factors says that now very well be the time to sell.  As always, this information may or may not pertain to your part of the country but you owe it to yourself to find a real estate professional you trust to find out how this information will impact you and the home you are trying to sell.