July 4th, 2018 Daytime Events for Kids Vienna Community Center from 2-4 p.m. Sprinklers and Sparklers waterpark Other events for children Located at: 120 Cherry St. SE, Vienna VA 22180 Vienna Fireworks Show If you are planning to watch the annual Vienna VA fireworks show on July 4th, 2018, then you should remember that they will Continue Reading
Tips For Building A Professional Website
In today's competitive professional services marketplace, having a digital and online presence will help your business meet more consumers directly when they are searching for answers. After talking with a colleague last week about what I have done online, I decided to share with other professionals my belief that today's smart digital marketing Continue Reading
What I told MONEY about Living in Vienna
It was Friday afternoon in mid July when the reporter called me from Money Magazine. "I'm doing some research about what makes Vienna a good place to live for our annual Best Places to Live issue, and I found you when I Googled "Vienna Virginia". Since I have spoken with reporters before and knowing that getting my town on "the list" was, Continue Reading
Vienna VA Real Estate Stats | 2018
The Vienna VA real estate market gets broken down by the three zip codes that cover the Vienna mailing address. As you can easily see from these three charts of the three Vienna Zip Codes, 22180, 22181, and 22182 that there has been a decline in the number of active homes over the two year period. A stable absorption rate remains as new "Active Continue Reading
Things You Should Know Before Moving to Northern Virginia
When I started Things You Should Know Before Moving to Northern Virginia (updated in 2017), I had to force myself to stop at thirteen fourteen "things". Over the years I have heard myself giving these tips over and over to clients who are relocating here, so, I thought that I should put down my observations for the world to read. The list is Continue Reading
Home Buying Tips | Low Mortgage Rates
Image by DougFrancis via Flickr It seems like every week there is an announcement that home mortgage rates are at an "all-time low", but this weekly headline is starting to get a little stale for most home buyers who are locking-in the mortgages as late as possible before going to closing. The "rate float option" gives home buyers the option of Continue Reading
My Buyer’s Agent Tip of the Week | Luxury Homes
Negotiation strategies vary depending on the price range and condition of the house, but the final months of 2010 may be the best time to negotiate on a luxury home thanks, in part, to the capital gains rate going back up on January 1, 2011. Yes, I am going to encourage you to set in motion an action plan that really is a "win-win" negotiating Continue Reading
House Hunting Fiction?
I have joked for years with home buyer clients about watching too many episodes of HGTV's House Hunters, and that our home search isn't going to include a film crew (read an actual client comment). Most of them recall an episode or two, or how they seem to look at three homes and buy one of them paying market price. Well I almost fell over Continue Reading
