Comments for Caroline, VA Community and Real Estate Information

Comment on Authors Bios by Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:05:16 +0000

Sound good, Scott! We’ll chat after the holiday weekend! Good luck, with your son’s wedding!

Comment on Authors Bios by Scott Richards

Scott Richards — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:49:50 +0000

I am very impressed with this website. It is a given fact that you guys very seldom come down for a landing and when you do, it is so you can spend time together with your lovely children (by the way, I am impressed by all of your kids). However, I would like sometime to visit the Rathbun hangar to discuss your website.

Comment on Surprise! It’s High Speed Internet for Lake Land’or in Caroline, VA! by Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:23:17 +0000

Harry,

It sounds like you have a great deal of knowledge in this area. I wasn’t able to attend the meetings because I was out of town for the few that I knew about. Someone on the committee has been providing updates and they were also surprised that the HOA picked the company that they chose.

I’ve renewed my satellite internet subscription because I think it’s going to be awhile before it all gets sorted out and the feedback from the Belmont folks has been less than stellar.

I wonder how long Verizon or Comcast will dither about before realizing there is money to be made by providing solid service in our community.

If you haven’t already you can read some of the 60+ comments about internet in Caroline County here: http://www.vahomeplace.com/caroline-the-land-that-the-world-forgot/

Comment on Surprise! It’s High Speed Internet for Lake Land’or in Caroline, VA! by Harry

Harry — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:05:30 +0000

I know of at least 2 different companies that had a plan for a wireless mesh system.The wireless mesh system would have had a fiber backbone which would have provided optimum speed for the short term.The fiber would have been rolled out shortly after.The so called hi speed committe who doesn’t know a walkie talkie from an iphone decided to go with casual computing.I saw them out there with their fire truck trying to gauge los and it was a joke.The tower which they claim would take away form the “beauty” of the community has apparently been approved.I guess it’s ok to put a 200 foot tower up if it’s someone white makes the suggestion.If they were going to go this route the service could have been up 2 yrs ago.The excessive treeline and extreme hill terrain will make it impossible to provide the proper service.You must also factor in the fact that casual computing is a small punk and pop company that has a few hundred subscribers in Belmont.The network they have will be unable to adequately accomodate andother 1500 customer with the amount of bandwidth they have.If they do acquire more bandwidth they will have to raise the prices to compensate for the higher lease cost.This whole thing has been a cluster @!#$ form the start.Rural Broadband put together a flawless presentation and guaranteed service installation within 90 days with no out of pocket cost to the community.As a matter of fact they were going to donate a portion of the proceeds to the hoa for other community projects.

Comment on Caroline County To Implement a Permanent County Sticker by Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:35:55 +0000

Eric,

I’m not sure why we even need a sticker. Some surrounding counties have done without. I’m not sure what the actual intent is, but it does seem to be a benefit to the county.

Comment on Caroline County To Implement a Permanent County Sticker by Eric

Eric — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:17:41 +0000

So, it looks like next year we’ll need to pay $23 for the new sticker in the spring, then pay $30 per vehicle in the summer… (So $53 for next year alone) Then we pay the $30/year (a $7 increase) to the county after that, when they also save money because they’ll no longer need to print stickers for everyone. (Just for new vehicles)

It’s just a fee increase hidden by calling it a convenience. I really don’t think we should have to double pay for next year…

Comment on 13030 Dahlia Lane, Fredericksburg, Virginia by Gia Martinez Freer

Gia Martinez Freer — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:01:27 +0000

Very nice! Love the kitchen and the garden area is superb! Grow those veggies and herbs to use in that wonderful kitchen!

Comment on Ladysmith 5K Marathon Coming September 18th! by Jennifer Rathbun

Jennifer Rathbun — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:24:16 +0000

Can I walk in the 1K w/ the kids too?

Comment on Surprise! It’s High Speed Internet for Lake Land’or in Caroline, VA! by David

David — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:53:07 +0000

I still think the better option is NWT but I haven’t heard anything more about them since they came to the technology committee meeting a month and a half ago. From doing some research it would seem NWT has a pretty feasible chance in this area since they go out for a lot of the broadband stimulus funds from what I’ve seen and that should help cut down on their infrastructure costs.

Currently we’re a casual computing customer and the service is definitely better then VABB but there is still a lot to be desired. If it rains or it’s windy you’re going to have some pretty poor service. We’re off in the back of our neighborhood and we experience some line of sight issues quite frequently where there is just a ton of packet loss and it can become pretty frustrating. I imagine the LOS issues are only going to be worse there in land ‘or and lake caroline given the dense trees.

Hopefully we’ll hear something soon from NWT. I’m really hoping that this “decision” by the Land’or technology committee hasn’t influenced NWT to look elsewhere because that would be extremely disappointing.

Comment on Thinking of Selling Your Home as a FSBO? by Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:44:34 +0000

We fixed it, thanks!