The MD Suburbs of DC

So I get this e-mail lead from RE/MAX Lead Street.  It's an in-house lead generator that distributes potential buyers leads who visit remax.com. It's not the most wonderful lead generation tool on the planet but it's free (to me). This particular lead is looking at a very nice house that I can co...

I've had my listings on RealBird for awhile now and it's a great service.  Plus, if there are ever any questions or help needed, the folks at RealBird are on it.  I've never had better client care.  There promotions are primo and this is one of them..... I [heart] RealBird.Listing presentation co...

I've been working with some buyer clients recently that don't qualify for a whole ton but they do qualify. You'd think with house prices down the way they are you'd think there would be be a few homes out there.  Well, as a matter of fact, there are quite a few homes out there in my clients' pric...

In the ever more desperate search for someone, somewhere to build a brand new, shiny stadium for his personal, professional soccer team, DC Unitied, mult-millionaire Victor MacFarlane has come to Prince George's County. Although both Washington, DC (the DC in DC United) and Virgina have turned do...

I guess I really shouldn't be surprised. I must've been involved - either as a listing agent or buyer's agent - with about 300 houses over my short real estate career and that doesn't count the ones that I visited with my buyer clients while they looked for the "perfect house". Or the ones that f...

This home, located on a quiet cul-de-sac near the Four Corners neighborhood of Silver Spring is perfect for someone who want to take advantage of a great location that is near METRO and the upscale downtown area of Silver Spring and the schools of the Down County Cluster in Montgomery County.

Maryland has been an asbestos hot spot due to thriving power plants, paper mills and ship yards. These industries utilized asbestos throughout the 20th century due to its fire resistant and durable qualities. Homes built prior to 1980 still maintain the chance of containing asbestos materials. Un...

I've seen blog posts that barely hit the 50 word minimum to get a few points on Active Rain and I've seen Blog posts that go on and on and on.  Even with paragraph breaks and bolded sentences or headlines and graphics it still seems like a lot to read...or is it? I've always been of the opinion t...

Here's a little bit of a confession:  my career path has led me to be mostly (not entirely) a listing agent.  Don't get me wrong.  I'll work with buyers in a heartbeat and I enjoy working with buyers.  It's just that, for whatever reason, I work mostly with sellers.  Here's another part:  I don't...

It's the weirdest thing. I got a call early in the afternoon from a great past client who had relocated from the beautiful MD Suburbs of DC to paradise (aka Hawaii) for a job. These folks had bought two homes with me and sold one.  We got along great but when they went to Hawaii I was sure that w...