Jim Duncan
@jimduncan.bsky.social
Charlottesville, Crozet real estate agent & partner w/ Nest Realty, husband, dad, bike rider, wishing for fewer cars, more bikes and sidewalks. I write JimsNote.com - one note a month about real estate market + stories, & RealCentralVA.com, RealCrozetVA
The only reasonable and logical path forward is to concede defeat and retreat.
The $3 billion dollar question: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Floods and Storms Are Ravaging the Jersey Shore. Why Do We Keep Building It Back?
Floods, storms and rising seas at the Jersey Shore prompt continual beach replenishment and rebuilding. Experts say more dramatic change is needed.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The only reasonable and logical path forward is to concede defeat and retreat.
I wrote this in 2007.
"Take heed – no longer can a home’s asking price be realistically set by the metric of “I have to clear X dollars.” Realistic expectations are welcomed."
My advice then is applicable to today's Charlottesville real estate market.
www.realcentralva.com/2007/02/01/s...
"Take heed – no longer can a home’s asking price be realistically set by the metric of “I have to clear X dollars.” Realistic expectations are welcomed."
My advice then is applicable to today's Charlottesville real estate market.
www.realcentralva.com/2007/02/01/s...
Sold comps now matter less
Now when pricing a home, we have to consider the sold comparable homes as a measure of the asking price, but we have to consider the active competition even more…. More and more when pr…
www.realcentralva.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I wrote this in 2007.
"Take heed – no longer can a home’s asking price be realistically set by the metric of “I have to clear X dollars.” Realistic expectations are welcomed."
My advice then is applicable to today's Charlottesville real estate market.
www.realcentralva.com/2007/02/01/s...
"Take heed – no longer can a home’s asking price be realistically set by the metric of “I have to clear X dollars.” Realistic expectations are welcomed."
My advice then is applicable to today's Charlottesville real estate market.
www.realcentralva.com/2007/02/01/s...
Trying to figure out what kind of incompetence this is
Pack it up, folks. We've found the most cursed, planner-brained, meeting-fetishist thing to ever be created.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trying to figure out what kind of incompetence this is
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Yep. Murder.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Yep. Murder.
What I'm reading this week - the Virginia Climate Report from George Mason University.
infocville.com/2025/12/04/g...
infocville.com/2025/12/04/g...
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What I'm reading this week - the Virginia Climate Report from George Mason University.
infocville.com/2025/12/04/g...
infocville.com/2025/12/04/g...
I've started a saved search for myself in the MLS to track properties that I think may be overpriced.
Wish I could make it public, but I'll probably write about it in my December monthly note.
Lower gray is when the properties last sold.
Wish I could make it public, but I'll probably write about it in my December monthly note.
Lower gray is when the properties last sold.
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've started a saved search for myself in the MLS to track properties that I think may be overpriced.
Wish I could make it public, but I'll probably write about it in my December monthly note.
Lower gray is when the properties last sold.
Wish I could make it public, but I'll probably write about it in my December monthly note.
Lower gray is when the properties last sold.
Dictator shit.
In a post on X tonight, the State Department says it “renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Dictator shit.
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
Reminder that if you want to kill someone, probably best to hit them with your car.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
UVa student who struck, killed elderly pedestrian gets no jail time
The UVa student who struck and killed an elderly pedestrian in Charlottesville back in October has been convicted of two charges, but will serve no jail time.
dailyprogress.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reminder that if you want to kill someone, probably best to hit them with your car.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
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"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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Every moment when I wonder “what will it take?” I have to remind myself “the limit does not exist.”
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Every moment when I wonder “what will it take?” I have to remind myself “the limit does not exist.”
He's not a dictator, but his enablers and supporters sure as hell are enabling him to be one.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
He's not a dictator, but his enablers and supporters sure as hell are enabling him to be one.
I’d like to hope that at one point the American military will realize that if there’s a bus to be thrown under by this regime, they will be under it.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’d like to hope that at one point the American military will realize that if there’s a bus to be thrown under by this regime, they will be under it.
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Ever heard the line, Water is life? Well, the people of Europe are seeing the same drought issues affecting Cape Town, Tehran, and Southwest US towns, like Vegas. As we dry, migration kicks into overdrive as people move to protect their kids.
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Ever heard the line, Water is life? Well, the people of Europe are seeing the same drought issues affecting Cape Town, Tehran, and Southwest US towns, like Vegas. As we dry, migration kicks into overdrive as people move to protect their kids.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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The results of your cognitive test are given by your report of your cognitive test.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The results of your cognitive test are given by your report of your cognitive test.
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“Hitler was now the law, as Goering said.”
- William Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p. 337
- William Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p. 337
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Hitler was now the law, as Goering said.”
- William Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p. 337
- William Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” p. 337
One of the worst designs I have seen.
Switches work.
This works, *after* you stumble three more feet into the bathroom to find the light switch for the *other* light.
Switches work.
This works, *after* you stumble three more feet into the bathroom to find the light switch for the *other* light.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One of the worst designs I have seen.
Switches work.
This works, *after* you stumble three more feet into the bathroom to find the light switch for the *other* light.
Switches work.
This works, *after* you stumble three more feet into the bathroom to find the light switch for the *other* light.
I was explaining this math to my parents several months ago and my numbers were pretty much what he notes here.
You need to make *at least* $130K.
Simply existing in the United States is prohibitively expensive for so many.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
You need to make *at least* $130K.
Simply existing in the United States is prohibitively expensive for so many.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I was explaining this math to my parents several months ago and my numbers were pretty much what he notes here.
You need to make *at least* $130K.
Simply existing in the United States is prohibitively expensive for so many.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
You need to make *at least* $130K.
Simply existing in the United States is prohibitively expensive for so many.
open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...
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But but folks were over reacting
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
But but folks were over reacting
Know what would be great? If the things I already subscribe to would give discounts to existing customers.
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Know what would be great? If the things I already subscribe to would give discounts to existing customers.
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Holiday sales make up 20% of corporate profits. From now through Cyber Monday, we’re taking a 5% bite back by boycotting Target, Home Depot, and Amazon for unsafe working conditions, cutting DEI, and letting ICE target our neighbors. Join us in saying #WeAintBuyingIt!
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Holiday sales make up 20% of corporate profits. From now through Cyber Monday, we’re taking a 5% bite back by boycotting Target, Home Depot, and Amazon for unsafe working conditions, cutting DEI, and letting ICE target our neighbors. Join us in saying #WeAintBuyingIt!
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Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization