Charlottesville Bob's Blog

For the uninitiated, Fridays After Five is a free family oriented event that takes place in in downtown Charlottesville every Friday during the spring, summer and fall. It's a casual block party with live music, great food, local culture wine and brews. It's a great way to experience the wide div...

  This is not your usual garage sale. This is the most prestigious Albemarle County rummage sale since the Jeffersons left Monticello. The Sotheby’s auction of Patricia Kluge’s collection of furnishings and other possessions from Albemarle House has begun. Admission is the purchase of the $65, 6...

What ever your political view the fact is that the government has played a large role in housing recovery. The government must be doing something right: pending home sales were 22.4 percent higher in April than the same month last year. And now the real-estate lobby has asked Congress to extend ...

For the uninitiated, Fridays After Five is a free family oriented event that takes place in in downtown Charlottesville every Friday during the spring, summer and fall. It's a casual block party with live music, great food, local culture wine and brews. It's a great way to experience the wide div...

Forest Lakes a Charlottesville bedroom community in northern Albemarle county is convenient to everything including downtown Charlottesville, UVA, the Medical Center, and NGIC. Residents enjoy many amenities including two swim and tennis clubs, a large fitness center, 12 miles of paved jogging tr...

  For those residents of Forest Lakes this weekend begins the summer fun. The north and south pools are open for the summer season. Pools open Saturday, May 29th!School Hours (thru Jun 11th)North - 3-8pm M-FSouth - 10am-8pm M-F, 11-9 Sat/Sun Normal Hours (after Jun 11th)North - 10am to 9pm daily...

Forest Lakes in northern Albemarle county is convenient to everything including downtown Charlottesville, UVA, the Medical Center, and NGIC. The National Ground Intelligence Center is just five minutes from Forest Lakes. Out of about 1,400 homes there are just 35 for sale, only 5 distressed prope...

For the uninitiated, Fridays After Five is a free family oriented event that takes place in in downtown Charlottesville every Friday during the spring, summer and fall. It's a casual block party with live music, great food, local culture wine and brews. It's a great way to experience the wide div...

In a few short weeks summer will be upon us. For those of us in the northern Albemarle county area there is a great alternative to lying around making your own gravy. Chris Green Lake, which is just a couple minutes from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, offers boating, swimming, fishing, hiking...

The first edition of our Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate iPhone app is alive and well. But it’s not a ‘real estate’ app in the traditional sense, ie: pushing listings to your iPhone.  It’s a buyer centric app designed to solve a few pronounced challenges faced during the physical expedition ...