Veera Phillips's (vphillips) Blog

Bowie Md. is a great place to live; it is a small college town 15 miles from Washington DC, with great communities and friendly people.  I remember the first time I went shopping in a local department store and talking aloud wondering where an item would be located a voice (not an employees) gave...

Buyers are out and buying up our foreclosed properties.  The inventory is still high but investors looking for bargains are beginning to see the bottom and are beginning to purchase.  Our area is a suburb of Washington DC and in less than 30 minutes you can be in the heart of the capitol city or ...

What's missing? Something is missing! Once there was a popular song "God Bless the Child that's got his own".  There use to be a time when purchasing land was important.  When having something that was yours was important.  Now we seem to be content with borrowing everything.    We borrow money, ...

We are all independent contractors and thus can run our businesses anyway we see fit. We can work to make it grow, we can work to maintain a status quo or we can cut the cord. My goal, my purpose, my focus is my Real Estate Business. I want to, need to MUST make this a success. By the time you pa...

I lived through the seasonal shift, someone should have warned me about the economic shift.  This long drawn out, quick sand feeling, market that we are coming out of. I am looking around me and there are deals being done, people are buying, and selling and it seems that there are agents that hav...

> Everyone, join in the March on Annapolis Maryland, Tomorrow morning.    Maryland legislators are voting on a 5% tax increase that will directly affect Realtors.  Rally to let your legislator know how we here in> Gorgeous Prince Georges County feel about additional taxes on our commissions.>> Th...

Did you know this about FHA?1) Manual underwriting is okay!2) Repairs can be made by the Buyer or the Seller!3) The maximum loan amount in most Maryland counties is $362,790!4) Most loans can have 6% Seller assistance and some loans can have up to 9% assistance from the Seller if all parties are ...