Celebrating 3 Years!

Wow, how time flies! Three years ago this month, I started blogging about Loudoun County real estate and the area in general. Back in 2006, there were very few Realtors blogging across the U.S. let alone Loudoun County (there were less than a few dozen across the entire U.S. at the time).

Today, that number is much higher yet, LoudounScene.com and LoudounForeclosures.com continue to be one of the best and most up to date sources of local information and resources for home buyers, sellers, investors, residents and the mass media.

Thank you to all of you who have commented on and been loyal readers of LoudounScene.com and LoudounForeclosures.com. Without you, there would be no Loudoun Scene or Loudoun Foreclosures and I would not be able to say, “Celebrating 3 years!”

Welcome to the new Loudoun Scene!

The new (and hopefully, improved) version of Loudoun Scene is officially live! Check out this video for more (click here if you don’t see the video)…

Let me know what you think – good and bad. Your feedback is invaluable and will help me tweak the site to make it better for you.

LoudounScene.com Update

You may have noticed that there are some issues with the Category section of the blog, as well as some of the widgets on the very right hand column. I am currently working with Typepad and the makers of the widgets to resolve the problem.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you and I hope to resolve the issues shortly.

On a related note…look for some changes coming to LoudounScene.com and LoudounForeclosures.com in the near future. The changes are being made in order to make your experience on the blogs more efficient, rewarding and pleasurable.

-Danilo

Enjoy the silence…

 

It's been kind of quiet here on LoudounScene.com due to the holidays, family gatherings, lots of cooking and cleaning and work (yes, buyers are still out there buying and homes still sell during the holidays). Hopefully you, like myself, had a good month and a chance to take a little break from the daily grind over the last week or so.

But that break is short-lived and it's back to the daily grind… Several posts will be coming out right after NYE. They will discuss the Loudoun County housing market including inventory/new listings and buyer demand/home sales numbers and trends. There will also be a 2008 Loudoun County housing market "year in review" post.

And keep an eye out for a post about a mortgage scam that homeowners should keep an eye out for – it's spreading throughout the country and has made it to Loudoun.

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season and see you in 2009!

-Danilo

LoudounScene.com Is Now Mobile-Friendly

If you've ever pulled up LoudounScene.com on your PDA/cell web browser, you've probably said to yourself "Man, this looks like crap and isn't very functional!" Well, no longer. As of today, you can get a PDA/cell web browser friendly version of LoudounScene.com (and LoudounForeclosures.com) via MoFuse.

Mofuse is a service that takes web site and blogs and creates a PDA/cell web browser-friendly version that is simple, functional and loads very quickly. And no, it's not just for iPhones (I have a Blackberry and it works great). The posts come up only as headlines hyperlinked to the full post. The posts are formatted to fit within your particular screen for easy viewing, pictures and all.

MoFuse even integrates "Email", "Bookmark on del.icio.us" and "Share On Twitter" buttons at the bottom of each post. The navigation is simple with a "Next" as well as a "See full HTML" button at the bottom of each post.

There is absolutely no software for you to download nor do you need to register for the service. All you need to have is the url of the mobile version of the site.

To get the url to the mobile version of LoudounScene.com, click on this button:

(You can also find this button at the top of the first right-hand column on each page of LoudounScene.com)

And if you'd like to get the url to the mobile version of LoudounForeclosures.com, click on this button:

If you run into any issues or concerns while using the mobile version, please let me know so I can contact MoFuse about it.