For example?

I lived in the building next door (Corner Lofts) last year. Shockoe Slip is a great choice for living car-free. It has good transit access and is walkable to restaurants, small businesses, and a farmers market (on certain weekends). The closest grocery store, Farm Fresh, is about 10 blocks down Main Street. The canal walk is easy to access, and leads to green spaces and parks on either end.

There are some annoying aspects to the location, so just as a heads-up:

• it can get pretty loud, especially if you get one of the units facing Main Street. For the Exchange Place building, I would look into whether there's good soundproofing between Square Code Fitness and the apartments above because I could often hear the music from the sidewalk/parking lot.
• the parking lot and the alley are kind of gross, people don't pick up after their dogs and the trash isn't collected often enough so some of it ends up outside of the dumpsters. I would stick to the lobby entrance if possible.

Overall though I would say it's a good area to start off in and get to know the city, it really facilitates exploration and can be good deal with the utilities included.

This turned into a pretty long comment, but I hope it's been helpful. Feel free to reach out if you have more questions about the area!

Edited because I misunderstood your post.

That’s the truth! I will definitely reach out if we go that route. Thanks!

What does this even mean? Do you honestly think local developers would be any better? Developers are developers regardless. See, for instance, local man Michael Hild.

The nickel and diming is obnoxious but the rising rent seems fairly reasonable. I own a home on southside and my mortgage has increased $250 a month since I bought it in 2020 from real estate increase

The listing for the building says it's fully leased. https://www.longandfoster.com/commercial-for-sale/2824-E-Broad-Street-Richmond-VA-23223-333672034

Then why conflate them? People are downvoting you because the first part of the comment is unhelpful.

So hopefully we will see more variety in specialty store and better quality control. Often distributors won’t distribute anywhere near the number of sku available. If it work the way VA wine does specialty stores will be able to have much more direct relation with breweries.

Walked by it a few days ago and it looked like work was being done inside.

Next you’re gonna tell me DPU is charging people wrong for water and gas!

The fair market value thing is a useless rule. If someone will pay it, it’s market value. The $65 (or $50, per state law, not sure where $65 comes from) is application fee ONLY, and doesn’t include credit/background/other checks.

As a thirty-something, I’ve had some great times drinking cocktails and listening to music there.

It used to drive me crazy as well. I understand completely.

Extension admin always instructed us to not talk to media but you might be able to get some info off the record from an ag agent. The only one who's been there for years and still there (with access to records and emails and such) would be the current Powhatan ag agent. She used to be split between Goochland and Powhatan so I'm sure she's fielded some of those calls. She's a horse person too so she'd probably remember receiving those calls/doing the farm visits if she did one. She can be hard to get ahold of but just leave messages wherever you can if you have trouble catching her. I was not ag so I was just hearing peripheral info as our agents tried to navigate those reports. But I do remember the frustration and venting as we tried to figure out how to get around animal control's lack of response

I’ll look that up. She was talking about being able to talk to me the other day. Thanks!

Nice. Have fun and ride safe, man. I hope your wife enjoys it too. I really like having Sena comms when I am with other people. Makes riding with others more fun. They are a good investment

I feel his pain as I knew it was coming since last Oct. My mum feels helpless as I struggle some days to do something constructive. Gardening has been a godsend.

https://richmondtenantsunion.org/

Here is a resource. Not sure what the sitch is but having rented out our old house years ago the going rent rate is twice the mortgage so in most cases, owners don't want to absorb extra costs.

We had a very bad experience with La Petite in Midlo. Feel free to DM me as well. It was bad enough we removed our kid immediately and they let us out of the contract without fees.

Is this a Pollard & Bagby property? It sounds like those incompetent snakes.

Personally, I've never been harassed by teens in this theater, but plenty of grown adults have ruined my movie going experience with their talking, texting, kicking seats etc. I don't totally agree with this decision because I don't think they're taking the individual into account. What if a teen has a single parent who's they're only ride and they work weekends? That kid will never be seeing a movie here again.

But my point is moot. It's obvious they're trying to go out of business at this point.

Child two awoke around 5:15. So, I have not overslept. I have a few errands to run on the day but mostly trying not to doom scroll the Ukraine war subreddits.

Considering starting up woodworking again now that it's warm but also need to fix my little cnc mill so not sure which is the next project

And if you have your own rental, you could continue the tradition of BS fees, or be the cool landlords you wish you had. Haha

If you're interested in looking at buying, feel free to send me a message. I'm a licensed Realtor. I have extensive knowledge of Lakeside. (I manage 3 rentals in there too, but we charge more fair rent so nobody is even thinking of moving out!)

$100 increase is pretty tame these days, unfortunately

Yes we have been considering it. It seems like the market has cooled down and right now isn’t the worst time to buy. Our hold up is that there is a potential for our jobs to be finished here this winter or next summer so we were already on the fence about signing another year lease. If we buy we’d only be in it for max two years and then we would be renting it out too! Not sure we want to take on the pain of it but it’s hard paying someone else’s mortgage.