Pat Kennedy - Home in the Capital

People moving to Washington often start off with a wish list that includes a modest home in one of DC's upper NW neighborhoods, like Chevy Chase, American University Park, Forest Hills, Spring Valley and a bunch of other neighborhoods that are west of Rock Creek Park.  And the typical price range...

As I sat down to write this post, I realized that I hadn't saved the page where I had all of my links for my favorite posts last week.  Oops!  But my memory is still good enough to remember the ones I liked and even loved.  So here goes:Nick Vandekar: A tribute to the dogs and rescue searchers of...

Water Lilies Claude Monet really liked water lilies. When he bought a house about an hour outside of Paris in Giverny, he diverted a stream and created a pond that he filled with these flowers.  The story goes that the neighbors got totally ticked off - they were dairy farmers, and they claimed t...

Before my last trip to Paris, I read Paris, A Novel, part of a series of historical novels by Edward Rutherford.  Rutherford included a fascinating history of the iconic Eiffel Tower.  There were a group of men who had installed the elevator, and they happened to be in the city during World War I...

You don’t have to love the furniture and staging props that your agent might employ to transform your home into Buyer Bait.   In my market, many of my transactions involve downsizing baby boomers selling to move-up millennials, Many of whom are HGTV addicts.  And while a lot of the ideas one gets...

As many of you know, I am quite the Francophile - except oh!  My French is not too good.  And I have the bucket list thing about living in Paris, or at least someplace in France.  I pore over the new listings that come each day from Properstar, the Euopean equivalent of an MLS but with bad photos...

 There are seven women in my book group that’s been meeting for several years.  We all live within a block of each other, and four of the six were either my clients or bought one of my listings when they came to the neighborhood.  We take turns picking the book to read, and recently Norman Eisen’...

Three mornings each week, I start my days with a brisk walk with friends through Crestwood, the neighborhood where I live. And the great thing, other than the benefits of a little exercise, has been watching the changes in the gardens as small plants started last spring grew big and lush over the...

They say there are two types of houses in Washington, DC – those with termites and those that will get termites. Recently, I discovered that my house moved from the second to the first category. When I moved in several decades ago, the house was treated for with some nasty stuff, since banned by...

It's been a fun week, well actually only 5 days so far.  In my first foray onto ActiveRain in a while, I've found many old friends and some new, or at least new to me, bloggers.  So here goes!Nick Vandekar: Music for 9.2.20:  It looks like Nick, a new to me blogger, is into music posts.  As a cla...