Will Nesbitt

Will is the principal broker of Nesbitt Realty and Condo Alexandria. He is licensed in anywhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia, but focuses on those communities found in and around Alexandria, Arlington, Mount Vernon and Springfield/Franconia. Will has been involved in real estate management, sales and investment for more than twenty years. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army. While in the army, he studied Russian at Monterey's Defense Language Institute. He is also a "veteran of the dotcom wars" and built most of the sites associated with NesbittRealty.com Will currently resides in Belle Haven Estates just outside Old Town, overlooking New Alexandria. He is a former president of the Mount Vernon Youth Athletic Association and founded the Alexandria Fun with Friends Group. Will is the author of BattlestorM, a tabletop fantasy game, which was published by Ral Partha Publishing in the late '90's, and Arthur's Realm, a boardgame available at the Gamecrafter.

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How to Write a Post From Realtor(TM) Ideas

Terms: Dashboard – the main work area inside WordPress [more] WordPress – the system that is used for content management and creating content [more] Post – A post is an article in WordPress [More] Template – Is a framework for building pages and posts. Beginners never edit or create templates. Tags – Tags are a …

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Add tabs to neighborhood pages

Instructions Add this code to pages which are assigned to you: 4 [wptabs ] [wptabtitle] About[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] 1 [/wptabcontent] [wptabtitle]Map[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] 2 [/wptabcontent] [wptabtitle]For Sale[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] 3 [/wptabcontent] [/wptabs] Then move the descriptor text already on the page and as well as images on the page to replace the number 1 in the code above. …

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Make a list of price URL’s

Here’s the job. First go to this page: [sitemap] Scroll down, or use Ctrl+F to find “Mclean homes priced between $100,000 to $200,000”. Below that you’ll see 4 links: Mclean homes priced between $100,000 to $125,000 Mclean homes priced between $125,000 to $150,000 Mclean homes priced between $150,000 to $175,000 Mclean homes priced between $175,000 …

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Posting Images from Feed

Posts by Nesbitt Realty are mostly listings of properties for sale. These posts are automatically deleted after a period of time and when they are deleted, the images posted with them are deleted as well.   1. Go here. 2. 3. Upload the image to the Media Library. 4.Title  = address of the property Alternative …

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Community The

There are never any communities with names like Pavilion The or Villages The.  Sometimes agents enter data that way so that the communities are properly alphabetized.  You should enter the same way the agent entered for the tract / code, but use The Pavillion or The Villages or The Plaza in your article.

How to write a Neighborhood Profile

A neighborhood profile is a post about a particular subdivision (tract) or condo community.  Information is drawn from new posts in a given area. Each neighborhood profile has the following attributes which will be created by you: Title One or two lines of text about the neighborhood. This is gleaned from source material described below. …

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Collapsing your menu

If you can’t see some of the buttons and links described in these tutorials it may be because you’re working on a smaller screen.  If that’s the case you may want to take advantage of the collapsible menu in your dashboard. On the left side of the screen is the main navigation menu detailing each …

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How to create a gallery post

You will produce one gallery post per day. A gallery post is a collection of 6 to 12 pictures from your neighborhood, blending old and new images in a theme imagined by you. A gallery is a useful way to add multiple images to a post, as shown below:   How to create a gallery …

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Adding a Featured Image

A Featured Image is a thumbnail preview showed by our website, Google and other resources so that people can see what an article is about before they click on it. The Media Library contains many types of images that might be appropriate for your post.  Some of terms you might search for are: Place — …

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Landmark post

A “landmark post” is a post about a landmark in your neighborhood. Always avoid opinions in landmark posts. A landmark post is a description about the functions, services and location of a landmark in your neighborhood. Some landmarks are.: Transit station. What’s the nearest Metro stop? Schools. Detail information about a school serving this community? …

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