Pat Kennedy - Home in the Capital

Here is the DC area, many buyers steer away from cooperative buildings. Usually it has something to do with the ground rules for living in the complex. Oh, and there is also a usually pleasant meeting with to members of the coop Board who must approve your purchase. Still, some of the most desira...

We all do little things that probably annoy our neighbors, and where I live it's having a less than manicured front yard. And right now, most of the perennials that are blooming in mine look like the flower in the photo.  Now, the guy next door does not totally appreciate my choice, since in a fe...

Here are 10 posts that taught me something or made me smile - usually both!  How will I pay my buyer agent, I've barely enough for a down payment? - Nick Vandekar  This is a good read during this time when so many of us are putting together new scripts for buyer clients on this very subject!STAY ...

Back in the day, a wise old broker told me, "Pat, if this was easy, they wouldn't pay you so much for doing it!" And through the decades, there have been so many situations were this wisdom snuck back into my brain.Here are a few transaction-destroying examples of unexpected surprises that can de...

These days, it's not unusual to see blog posts, or newspaper articles, about some real estate agent being caught red-handed doing things that are illegal, immoral, or just incredibly dumb while they are on someone else's property listed for sale.  They forgot.Big Brother is very likely to be watc...

One of the first ActiveRain bloggers I met in person was Cindy Jones.  She lives and sells homes in nearby Virginia, and she could be counted on to make any local RainCamp, meetup or just a fun lunch somewhere near the Occaquan River a whole lot of fun. Cindy was at my first ActiveRain meetup (se...

Last week was pretty busy, but not too busy to catch up with some of my favorite bloggers on Active Rain.  Here are some I especially enjoyed:Paula McDonald: An Eclipse of a Lifetime Paula was lucky enough to be right in the path, and her account of watching it with her family was, well, not quit...

Here in Washington, DC, the cherry trees get a lot of attention, with people coming from around the country each spring to see them lined up along the National Mall. But my favorites are our beautiful redbuds, which bloomed a little late this year. This afternoon, Picco and I saw this one around ...

This afternoon, I shared my mushroom story on the Tuesday Zoom call, and spoiler alert. The story was a little scary, but it has a great ending. Um, I got lucky!In June of last year, I was diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer. It's usually pretty nasty, and the prognosis is not exactly optimi...

This was my first full week of posting, reading and commenting on blogs on ActiveRain in a few years. And it was interesting trying to find ten posts that were reasonably well written and interesting and appeared likely to have actually written by the blogger on the by-line. While I really wanted...