Picking paint colors to sell your home heading into 2018 isn't going to be as challenging as you are thinking right now. Really. It's important to know that a fresh coat of paint will return 100+% of your investment. Hiring a professional painter will get it done quickly, and is well worth the cost. Although I have written about removing Continue Reading
How HGTV has helped real estate
There isn't a buyer client I meet who hasn't watched HGTV. And, that's a good thing! Last week while waiting for my daughter's dental appointment to finish, I got sucked into watching an exciting HGTV show called Flip or Flop. Okay, maybe exciting is a little much for a TV show, but, as a real estate agent, I often see the potential when Continue Reading
Air Conditioning and Air Flow
The noise didn't bother the home inspector, but the air conditioning system was making far too much noise for a new home. The problem here was too much air flow though an air return vent... and this took place in 2004. You should always take a look at the HVAC system(s) when you are looking at any home you are considering buying. Make note of Continue Reading
What happens in a multiple offer situation?
In certain areas and prices ranges, multiple offer situations torment home buyers and excite lucky sellers. Some segments of the Vienna real estate market have been attracting multiple offers. Recently, one of my client's homes had six offers submitted before the Tuesday deadline. Although one decided to withdraw their offer before the seller Continue Reading
Helping Today’s Move-Up Home Buyer
The baby arrived, and suddenly our first house didn't seem as big any more. Sound familiar? For me, it was when our second arrived and my wife pointed out this obvious fact over dinner. Asking, if I wasn't busy on Sunday with clients could we go look at an "open-house" across town? In case you don't know, I look at houses almost every Continue Reading
A 3D Tour of House in Vienna
A cool aspect of being a real estate agent is that new technology comes along all the time that I can add to my list of services. Being quickly adaptive is essential and, being an entrepreneur, I can be nimble enough to make executive decisions when I see something a consumer will think is beneficial. At a listing in Vienna last week, we spent Continue Reading
Consumers appear to trust Zillow
When clients returned to California after considering relocating to Vienna, they sent me an email with a few questions. What caught my eye was an observation about pricing: "...but whose price tag is $990,000 - way out of step with the $801,000 estimate that Zillow puts on it." By coincidence, I recently listened to industry journalist Brad Continue Reading
What is Consummation in Real Estate?
When a prominent McLean real estate attorney gave a presentation to our office about the upcoming TILA-RESPA changes, he used "Consummation" of the sale rather than Settlement. The room chuckled like a class of 8th graders, looking at each other and whispering, "Consummation?" Of course we were all thinking along the lines of a proper Wedding Continue Reading
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