Pat Kennedy - Home in the Capital

On June 10, 2007, I came across ActiveRain doing a google search, joined and wrote my first post, and by late 2018, I found my way to the coveted Number 1 spot on the Leaderboard. The addiction was so strong that my broker had to step in with an intervention. So I went cold turkey, checking in ev...

Here in Washington, DC, the real estate market is a little goofy, leaving buyers sitting on the fence wondering what to do. There are far fewer people putting their homes on the market. But homes that are for sale seem to be taking longer to sell, and while there are some bidding wars, they are f...

Let me introduce Picco, my new significant other. He's a shaggy mixed breed - his mom was a purebred beagle, and dad? Well, I think he was a froo froo mystery man.He was an immediate real estate asset.  When I needed a name, I had a "Name the Puppy" contest on Monday Morning Coffee, my weekly pos...

In all of my years in real estate, I've never ever met a seller who over-estimated the time it would take to whip a house or condo into showing condition and then pack up and move. When it's time for your next move, you could quickly understand why people say, "Move is a four-letter word!"  Does ...

Over the weekend a property came on the market that many of the neighbors have regarded as the local Addams Family house.  While I know most of my neighbors, this seller was sort of a mystery man – a recluse.  In over 30 years I’ve lived in the next block, I’ve never seen anyone go in out out of ...

Here in Washington, DC, we are seeing a shortage of listings like never before. Still, I know a lot of people who want to or ought to move, and most of them are my demographic - baby boomers living in houses that are way too big and needy to meet their current needs. There is, however, one big st...

Lately, I've gotten hooked on "Tiny House Nation", where two guys travel around the country trying to help people downsize - I mean really downsize!  Like down to a couple of hundred square feet  A huge part of their jobs is helping people to part with a whole lot of the stuff they've collected w...

Some of the people I've worked with have preferred a house to a condo because they don't want to pay a monthly condo fee, in addition to their mortgage, real estate taxes, and hazard insurance.  But wait!  With a house, they will have to pay their mortgage, taxes, and insurance, and then they mus...

A First-Timer's Guide to Buyer's RemorseDuring the first week of real estate school, instructors bring up a serious affliction that grabs virtually everyone who buys or tries to buy a house or condo. It even has a name: Buyer's Remorse.  And almost everyone gets it at some point in any real estat...

These are some of the dairy cows that live down river from Monet's lily pond.  The dairy farmers became very upset after Monet diverted their river to form his pond.  Then, when he put in the water lilies, the cow's milk went off.  The milk, the butter and the cheese all went off.  All these year...