The MD Suburbs of DC

I recently received an e-mail from an out-of-town client who has had their house on the market for quite some time. It seems that the house has received some recent showings and since I use a showing service that logs in the visits and sends notification to the Seller, this particular client soun...

I've been noticing something with this whole social media and blogging thing. Most of the people I interact with - whether it's on Active Rain, Facebook, Twitter or elsewhere - are Realtors or people in the real estate industry like lenders, title companies and the like. The fact is, I have anoth...

For some odd reason, some of my listings are seeing a big spike in showing activity.  I'm trying to figure it out.  I know there are a few reasons: it's spring it's Daylight Savings Time there's an $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit out there waiting mortgage interest rates are low buyers ge...

In an article in the Real Estate Section of The Washington Post, a guy is described as having really, really researched the market for a long period of time.  He had spreadsheets and visited a lot of open houses, etc.  He and his lady friend eventually decided to buy a house!  Wooooo! Hoooo! This...

This whole short sale thing has taken on a life of it's own.  Entire industries have popped up around them.  Designations, workshops, gurus of every stripe.  Everyone is getting into the act!  All hail the short seller.  Of course, there are some who teach that working a niche can be just as rewa...

Now, everyone knows that professional Realtors cannot lie about a house.  Sure, we can make it sound pretty attractive when, in fact, it's not all that pretty. We can say "some TLC needed" when you really need FHA 203(k) and a good contractor but we really can't lie.  It's against our Code of Eth...

RealBird is running another promotion!  Those crazy guys never stop.  If you're on Twitter this is the promotion for you.  Simple and easy.    BTW, if you're on Twitter and want to follow me I @mdsuburbsAnother week, another promotion. We are now experimenting with social media marketing. More sp...

In the never ending quest to provide nothing but the best and most current information on the real estate industry..... OK, so I'm about two days late and threee dollars short of posting these photos of the VA REVBar Camp.  It was a great time.  It was the first REBar Camp I ever attended and, as...

Tomorrow is a kinda big day for me.  It's the first time I'll be attending an o-fficial REBar camp. It's the closest one I've found -- Fredericksburg, VA -- which is still about a 70 mile hike for me through some of the worst rush hour known to mankind.  It's being put on by the Fredericksburg Ar...

Recently, one wonderful past client of mine referred my to a good, long time firend of his and another past client re-surfaced to inquire about buying a home. Let me tell you, I was pretty excited.  It's a buyer's market and I was going to be able to help two couple's buy a house. I asked them to...