Recently, our group came across an interesting website with mapping tools for determining if a parcel is subject to a steep slope ordinance.  The tool covers Asheville and Buncombe County real estate.  According to the website homepage, “mapWNC is a unique collaboration between the City of Asheville, Buncombe County, The University of North Carolina-Asheville, and [...]

It happens that I occasionally write “for rent” ads.  Whenever I do, I see poorly written ads.  How can homeowners and landlords with thousands of dollars in rent at stake afford to advertise so poorly?  For the second article in our “how to” series, I’m going to explain how to write a better Craigslist for [...]

Part 1: How to use the Buncombe County GIS web site to look for Asheville real estate.
2/2009 EDITOR’S NOTE: In late 2008 the Buncombe GIS application came out with a new version.  You can still search using the older website format, which this article describes, and many of the principles in this article still apply [...]