Having a home inspection contingency is essential when you are buying a home. But in Northern Virginia, I have seen a wide gap in the quality of the written inspection reports that home buyers are given by their inspectors. Specifically, it is the detailed description of the inspector’s concerns that he may have discovered and reported per the Continue Reading
Earth Day in Vienna, VA 2010
The 40th Earth Day arrived today and the weather is truly spectacular in Northern Virginia. This year the focus across the board is on energy efficiency and replacing older appliances with Energy Star qualified appliances like A/C or heating systems, hot water heaters or refrigerators. Like I wrote last week, the Commonwealth of Virginia has Continue Reading
Inova’s “Rock the Red” Blood Drive
Many of you know that I do my best to be a good blood donor and I do it two to three times a year (@39 donations), and today there is a blood drive at Inova Blood Services on Woodburn Road next to Fairfax Hospital sponsored in part with the Washington Capitals. You can just walk in to donate, but know that they are giving away cool Capital's swag Continue Reading
Vienna, VA Home Sales Stats | Hyper Local March 2010
Image by lukiffer via Flickr March came roaring in like a lion in the real estate market as buyers literally surged in once the snow melted and the sun started to shine making our world green again, so next month's numbers will be impressive. The driving part of the surge was buyers at the lower end buying homes that allowed people to move up Continue Reading
Real Estate short sales may just start your headache
Image by Rev Dan Catt via Flickr When people sell their home for less than they owe on their mortgage it is called a "short sale". And these can give short-sale-sellers the impression that the agreement to repay the amount borrowed has been satisfied, and that it is time to move-on like in a traditional sale. You pay, you stay... if you Continue Reading
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
Vienna VA a winter wonderland of snow at home
Some of you moving to Northern Virginia may be seeing the area in nice warm weather, but it can really snow here and I thought I would give you a taste of the big blizzard of 2010 when we had two monster snow storms within a week dumping three feet of snow at my home in Vienna, VA. The kids in Fairfax County, VA didn't have school for almost two Continue Reading
Vienna, Virginia | My Buyer’s Agent Advice of the Week
I had a home buyer Tweet me and ask if I had any words of wisdom to pass along. The funny thing is that I love giving advice, but 140 characters weren’t going to cut it because what I do really can’t be distilled down to a sound bite. It also raised an issue that many socialists folks have written dissertations on… the desire for a silver bullet or Continue Reading
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