Anne Clark's (anneclark) Blog

This one was too good not to reblog.  Chris Ann nails what it must be like for a home owner to give up on their dreams of home ownership when they are left with no choice but to do a Short Sale.  Please leave your comments with the original post. There is no question that if you asked a room ful...

Townhouse communities in the Gainesville area can often times have not enough parking for the residents, no less, visitors.  If you're out viewing a vacant home, and there is someone parked in the driveway, or assigned spaces belonging to the listing, you have a clue that there may be a parking ...

Ever since the weather has cooled off, I've noticed dust in places I've not noticed it before.  Seems the lack of air blowing through my home with the air conditioning off is leaving dust to settle everywhere. If your home is on the market this fall, make sure you're keeping up with the dusting. ...

It's been cold the last couple nights here in Gainesville, VA.  Even chilly enough during the day that I had to break out my slippers today to keep my feet warms.  (Normally I walk around my house in my bare feet.)  So now I'm looking at the extended forecast and wondering if it's too soon to fir...

Have you ever seen a sign designating that you should use caution when driving through a neighborhood because an Austistic Child lives in the area?  If you have,  you better believe that those signs are old.  VDOT will no longer do them.  Read this blog to find out why. Every time my father took...

Believe it or not, year after year, Prince William County, VA real estate sees an increase in activity and sales prices during the end of the year.  There are less than three months to take advantage of this time of year.  Everyone assumes that the real estate market comes to a screeching halt a...

These are some of the best photographs I have ever seen of our area in Fall.  These were taken by Chris Ann Cleland while flying over Lake Manassas in Gainesville, VA. If you'd like to leave a comment, please do so on the original post. Lake Manassas is one of the most beautiful sights in Prince...

Want to celebrate our local wildlife, and the fact that they have a place to call home?  I didn't even know there was an annual Occoquan Bay Wildlife Refuge Fall Festival.  Leave it to local expert Cindy Jones to bring it to our attention.  Thanks, Cindy.Mark your calendars for the annual Fall Wi...

Just in time for the haunting season of Halloween, Bristow will host two evenings of candlelight spirit tours through historic Brentsville.  Meet the spirits that lived and worked in the area during the 1800's.  There will be two tours per day on October 29th and 30th.  One tour starts at 7pm, th...

On the Fridays & Saturdays of October 22-23 and October 29-30, Bend Lomond Historic Site will be hosting haunted house tours at 7pm, 8pm 9pm and 10pm.  You'll get to tour a real haunted house and be in a Civil War Hospital at night.  There will even be representatives from the Mid Atlantic Parano...