The MD Suburbs of DC

I mentioned here before that I try to pay attention to my little micro-niche -- Sellers with Equity.  These are the folks who are current on their mortgage payment and may have even put a little money down on their home when they bought it.  Alternately, they bought their home way before 2000 and...

I keep hearing that the market is picking up.  my fellow Realtors are crowing about the multiple offers their listings are getting within days of putting the home on the market.  my fellow Realtors are complaining that they are coming up against multiple offers on properties their buyer clients w...

Years ago, I worked with a husband and wife who were buying their first investment home. They had grand dreams (or, at least, the wife did) of buying a house a year until it was time to retire and they'd live off the rental income or sell a few homes to tide them over in the Golden Years.  Luckil...

It's not what you know.... You know the rest of that saying, right?  Well, through the magic of Active Rain and one of my Outside Blogs, I got to know New Jersey Home Stager Extraordinaire and Social Media Maven, Juliet Johnson.  Who knew it would eventually turn into an appearance on Blog Talk R...

Recently, I had two of my clients re-think their pricing startegy. I've been gently encouraging them to do something. Yes, the market is picking up. Yes, the media is saying that we may be hitting the bottom. However, the sad fact is that prices are still trying to find the "just right" place to ...

I just had to re-blo this since it is so, er, odd.  Leave it to code-meister, Cheryl Johnson to keep her eye on number combinations. 5 - 7 - 9 Consecutive ODD Numbers.   Which happens only six times per one hundred years. This is the third odd day of the 21st century, one in six. The reason it's ...

For some of us who can remember the days when FHA mortgages were to be avoided like the plague it almost seems like a quaint notion that Sellers and Buyers didn't have to worry about appraisers coming in behind home inspectors to do a home inspectors job.  The FHA, it seems, wants its appraisers ...

Depending on who you listen to (an I try not to listen to any of them), Realtors are paid way too much.  Yep. That's right.  Too much. It doesn't matter what the number is....it's too much. I've seen it in Seth Godin's Blog, Jeff Jarvis writes about it in his book, What Would Google Do?, there's ...

Has anyone noticed the proliferation of eBooks hitting cyberspace lately?  It has been said that everyone has at least one book in them.  It seems that with the advent of superior desktop publishing tools and Adobe Acrobat that, yes, everybody, indeed, has a book in them and sometimes two or thre...

Many months ago I wrote a blog post about why I didn't Twitter (or tweet or whatever).  I couldn't understand the appeal.  I mean, what can you say in 140 characters or less and who cares? Well, since then I've been to my first REBar Camp in Fredericksburg, VA and got introduced to Twitter and wh...