Welcome to an easy home search for rental properties in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. To reach Dulles International Airport, you will need to travel on the Dulles Access Road which is also known as Virginia Route 267. Communities in Northern Virginia include: McLean Vienna Great 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.
The real estate market catches a hint of Spring 2010
We had a bright and sunny weekend here in Northern Virginia (2010), and a surge of home buyers were out looking at the homes for sale that had popped up late Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. A little marketing tip is to put a home into the MLS database Thursday to feed all the IDX sites out there that send e-mails to registered home buyers. Continue Reading
McLean VA Home Sales Stats | Hyper Local January 2010
The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the McLean, Virginia zip codes 22101 and 22102 real estate sales for January 2010. Although our memories aren't Continue Reading
Vienna, VA Home Sales Stats | Hyper Local January 2010
Update: Get 2011 Vienna stats here The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the Vienna, Virginia zip codes 22180 and 22182 real estate sales for January Continue Reading
Helping prepare a 40 year-old home to sell
A significant number of the homes in Northern Virginia were built in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. Yes, a lot has been built since then, but the building booms in those times constructed significantly smaller homes and much faster.The total number of homes built in the 1970's alone outpaces the most recent boom time. Best of all, they were Continue Reading
Your house has an ice dam? Part 2
Today everyone seemed to be having issues with ice dams clogging their gutters causing all sorts of water problems in their homes. Melting water from your roof hits your gutters and refreezes when temperatures are below freezing for an extended period of time. Most water flows over the ice forming icicles, but it slowly builds up until the water Continue Reading
Your house has an ice dam?
One of the problems of having too much snow and below freezing temperatures for a week is the gutter ice dam. This happens when the gutter stops draining due to compacted snow or a block of ice. Then, the warm air escaping from your home generates just enough heat to melt the snow pack causing the gutter to fill with water. Hopefully it flows out, Continue Reading
New FHA Home Mortgage Guidelines for April 2010
David Stevens who is the Assistant Secretary for Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner had the FHA issue new guidelines on January 21, 2010 to help reshape the government insured home mortgage agency and how it offers low down payment loans to home buyers. It is a little boring or even dry for Washington D.C., but important if you are planning to Continue Reading
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