The Northern Virginia real estate statistics showed an interesting "early" downshift starting in the June chart. The low interest rates motivated most home buyers to take action in the early spring expecting them to flatten out by now. But rates have remained on a down slope which has eliminated the intense sense of urgency. Contrary to these Continue Reading
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The following is an archive of my articles about builders, strategies, home inspections, financing, painting, staging, tips, and skills. Start reading and you can search the archive anytime.
A Pothole for Virginia Home Buyers
Every year I get involved in a few real estate transactions where the agent on the other side of the transaction is doing "limited" work. It is perfectly legal to be a Limited-Services Agent in Virginia, but home buyers should understand what this means for their buyer agent... at least from my perspective. When I started as a real estate Continue Reading
The New Home Timeline
A new home builder in Vienna asked me recently when he should expect home buyers to decide to buy his spec homes. My answer was, "as soon as you get the HardiPlank siding up, metal roof on the porch, and front door on." Based on my experience with new home buyers in this niche market, they want to see a spec about 80% done before they'll decide Continue Reading
What moves you?
What the heck? It isn't often that I ride the RE/MAX corporate bandwagon but you might just win a little cash in this social media contest. You may have seen this ad campaign on TV recently (I did) and here is an opportunity to put all that pent up creativity to work to possibly win a $750 Apple Gift Card or possibly $10,000! Hurry, the Continue Reading
About all those Realtor forms…
Believe it or not, a lot of Realtor forms were updated on July 1, 2012 to comply with updated rules and regulations approved in April by the General Assembly of Virginia. Yes, Richmond. You know, where the laws are made for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As a consumer protection, real estate agents are required to have a license and report to the Continue Reading
Afraid of Delaying your Closing?
Real estate sales involve a dozen or so people who can easily derail the process. Your objective, when you are buying a home, is to avoid being that weak link that may be delaying closing and adding additional stress. I like to categorize one role of a buyer's agent as a transaction manager helping you stay on track. In 2012, the delayed Continue Reading
Vienna Trash and Recycling Schedule
Update 2019: Recycling in Vienna include: NEW! - Glass Recycling dumpster in Vienna on Mill Street mixed paper, magazines, junk mail, newspaper flat cardboard glass bottles and jars are collected go to landfill (see Fairfax glass recycling for current details) metal food and beverage cans Plastic #1, #2, #5 only - Do Continue Reading
Blogging requires effort
Every now and then I take a break from real estate blogging to update the blog's backbone with the goal of making it easier for readers, like you, to read. For the past month I have been working behind the scenes to clean up about 80 broken links and now that those are fixed, the time has come to make another move. A couple of years ago when Continue Reading
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