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Move In Ready Home Backing to Trees OverviewMapsPhotosMarket Stats $569,000 Single Family Home Main Features 3 Bedrooms3 Full Bathrooms1 Half BathroomInterior: 2,992 sqftLot: 0.11 acre(s)Year Built: 2001MLS #: VAPW2000706 Location 12148 Formby StreetBristow, VA 20136USA Chris Ann Cleland Long & ...
06/24/2021
Wildlife in Bristow, VA Just Got a Little More IntimidatingSightings of wildlife in Bristow generally range from birds as large as turkeys, turkey vultures and hawks and mammals from fox, raccoons and deer.  It seems that the last few days there has been a larger fella lumbering about.  The photo...
06/18/2021
Cry For Help From a Blog Post ReaderYesterday, as I was walking from one end of the Gettysburg Battlefield Park with my young cousin, my phone rang.  Thankfully, the number of interruptions to my day off were minimal.  In addition to two short client calls, there was one from an unknown number.  ...
06/16/2021
The Sound of My ChildhoodThe other night I was scrolling through the cable TV guide and saw the move Walk the Line on a movie channel.  When the movie first came out of theaters I had seen it.  Being the daughter of an avid Johnny Cash fan, I felt it my duty to my deceased father.  He would have ...
06/05/2021
The $10,000 Phone CallMultiple offers are commonplace in the Northern Virginia real estate market in 2021.  Over list price offers with no contingencies make up a handful of the offers usually received on any property, no matter the price range.Last month, I helped sellers in Woodbridge list thei...
05/26/2021
The Words We Use are So ImportantEarlier this week I found myself drawn into a video made by a listing agent giving tips on how to write a winning offer in a multiple offer situation.  Everything this agent advised was spot on.  What made the video difficult to watch was that she kept calling off...
05/22/2021
Elegant Colonial on Ten Rural Acres OverviewMapsPhotosMarket Stats $1,050,000 Single Family Home Main Features 5 Bedrooms5 Full Bathrooms1 Half BathroomInterior: 6,793 sqftLot: 10.00 acre(s)Year Built: 2012MLS #: VAPW521598 Location 15315 Mountain Crest CourtHaymarket, VA 20169USA Chris Ann Clel...
05/11/2021
Taking Fluffing to a Whole New LevelExactly how would you go about describing a jetted soaking tub with jets plugged up with chaulk?  It would likely be an explanation of why the jets were filled with chaulk and an explanation that the tub was being sold as-is.  This, of course, if you couldn't g...
04/29/2021
The Risk of Overplaying Your HandPull up a chair and let me tell you the tale of a listing agent that overplayed a hand so severely that a home listed in a highly sought after, gated golf course community in a ridiculously crazed seller's market is still available for sale.It all started Friday a...
04/28/2021
Sought After Corner Unit Condo OverviewMapsPhotosMarket Stats $338,000 Condominium Main Features 2 Bedrooms2 Full BathroomsInterior: 1,421 sqftYear Built: 2007MLS #: VAPW520122 Location 7065 Heritage Hunt Drive103Gainesville, VA 20155USA Chris Ann Cleland Long & Foster Real Estate(703) 402-0037c...
04/24/2021
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