This Vienna Home SOLD 2/16/2011 Really one of the nicest detached homes you are going to see on a nice quiet lot just minutes from Tyson's (you could probably bike there). The open floor plan allows for plenty of light to filter into the kitchen and family room. From the moment you walk in the front door and see the gleaming oak hardwood floors, Continue Reading
Local Stories
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.
How to Get Your Home Ready to Sell in 30 Days
Let's get started! As another new year arrives, so should a flurry of homes that have been waiting out the traditionally slow holiday season. If your home is one of them, I hope you took advantage of the last thirty days to get your home ready to sell. But, if you are just now starting to plan to put your home on the market in 2021, then bank-in Continue Reading
Loan Limits for Northern Virginia
UPDATE Loan limits for Northern Virginia in 2022 ~ Original Article: Relocation home buyers are typically surprised to learn that Northern Virginia has maximum conforming mortgage loan limits that are higher than most regions of the United States. Northern Virginia real estate ranks as "expensive" considering the region has some of the wealthiest Continue Reading
Warning: If You Skip this Home Buyer Tip, You Pretty Much Want a Headache
Did you think there wasn't a top must do? This isn't a tip exclusively for first-time home buyers, so please don't think that you are too savvy to begin with a review of your credit report. The credit report and the resulting FICO Score hold the proverbial keys to your next castle, but can also be the stealthy iceberg that sinks the ship. Why Continue Reading
Building the Metro to Dulles
UPDATE: Watch the Silver Line run in Tysons ~ Vienna real estate values increase Yes, back in 2010 I was giving my clients advice that the Metro was going to add significant value to their homes especially in Vienna and Reston. The number of properties being torn down and replaced with homes now (in 2014) priced above $1.3 million is evidence of Continue Reading
Christmas Tree Shopping in Vienna
Updated for 2016 Today was a busy one along Maple Avenue (Route 123) in Vienna VA as cars were pulling out of parking lots with Christmas trees tied to their roofs heading home. It is a tough business to be in these days as long-standing community groups have stands set up as fund raisers. Lions Club - The Vienna Lions Club has a stand set Continue Reading
Some Home Selling Tips
Northern Virginia home sellers need to understand how current home buyers are searching and finding their next home. In fact, anyone preparing their home to sell can achieve a lot over the next month or two to get their house prepared for those "picky buyers" who will emerge from the "holiday season trance" come 12:01 a.m. on 1/1. A blog post on Continue Reading
Just bought a house
Image by OZinOH via Flickr Once you buy your home and the deed is recorded at the county courthouse in the public record, you are going to start getting some interesting mail. Some of it will be normal like from furniture stores or from house painters (I send my Northern Virginia real estate clients coupons from Lowes), but please read through Continue Reading
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