RVA Magazine has a story about Pine Street punk rock record store Vinyl Conflict.

Here’s an excerpt:

When the coronavirus outbreak hit, Vinyl Conflict owners Bobby Egger and Melissa Mazula were out of the country. They’d had a buying trip to the UK scheduled for March 4 through 18, and as they traveled, things began to escalate.

“When the travel ban went into effect, we were watching the news very carefully each day, trying to make a decision about how we would be returning,” said Egger. “We were quite far away from our return flight date, and on the other side of the country.”

From another country, they had to make important decisions about what would happen with Vinyl Conflict’s retail store in Oregon Hill, which specializes in new and used punk, hardcore, and metal albums — on vinyl, of course — as well as related merchandise. And when they returned, they voluntarily put themselves into quarantine.

“Me and Melissa went on self quarantine for two full weeks, and my employees continued to up our online presence in social media,” Egger said. The shop switched to a curbside-pickup model, at first allowing browsing by appointment only and then ending even that out of concerns for the safety of customers and employees. And they immediately focused on online sales, working hard to ensure that their entire inventory was accessible on the store’s website and the record-sales site Discogs.com.

Overlook neighbor and Joyner Fine Properties real estate agent Wes Fertig published a market report on Oregon Hill. It included recently sold properties, just listed properties, pending sales, and price changes on current listings. Click here to see it.

One thing to keep in mind is that with many of these property descriptions, the houses are described as being built in 1900. The reality is that many were built earlier but 1900 is the earliest date that the City of Richmond has on record.

To learn more and contact Wes Fertig, please click on his advertisement on the side of the home page.