The terrific Earth-Sheltered home that I have been marketing in Prince William County went to closing today. The owner who had bought the property in 1989 was sad to let it go but the new owner is going to be a great steward of the property. Having been studying Earth-Sheltered homes for years
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08/31/2007
Dear Mr or Ms. Builder,Do you have excess inventory that you would like to sell? Great! I have a buyer who is interested in making an offer on one of your completed homes. We have toured the area and know that you have a number of properties available that meet their needs and we noticed a num
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08/31/2007
If you are undertaking a spruce up project on your home in Fairfax or Prince William County you may want to make the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Alexandria or Manassas your first stop. The Habitat ReStore offers you an opportunity to do three things at once. The first is to support the grea
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08/31/2007
No, this isn't a personal question about your belly button. I have some new buyers moving to the Northern Virginia area and they have been reading some of the literature that I sent them to look over before they arrive in the area. Many cities have unique terms to describe different neighborhoo
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08/30/2007
Except my Open House sign! It is fall and the election signs are up everywhere you look in Fairfax County. I'm always amazed at the amount of signs that can pop up overnight and by the dozens in any given intersection. Last week I stopped to put out an Open House sign in an intersection that w
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08/29/2007
Hidden among all of the three level colonials in Fairfax County you will find a few pockets of Mid Century Modern homes (MCM). One of those neighborhoods is Hollin Hills in Alexandria. Designed over 50 years ago by architect Charles Goodwin the neighborhood was considered avant-garde at the ti
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08/28/2007
Every month hundreds if not thousands of agents jump on the band wagon and print the latest local market reports. Most of the data that is presented comes from the same sources and the only noticeable difference is the way some agents format the data and the delivery method (print, blog, email).
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08/22/2007
There isn't a day that goes by that we don't hear a news report about another mortgage company in crisis or read a story about another family facing foreclosure, Folks we have heard this all before in one form or another. "The prices of houses seem to have reached a plateau, and there is reaso
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08/21/2007
Who needs fancy neighborhood names? Why not tell it like it is! I was at a community meeting last week and snapped a picture of this sign to share. When the prison was the prominent attraction in Lorton the warden and a number of the staff lived along Old Ox Road. Except for a few remaining
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08/20/2007
No this isn't a commentary on waist lines but instead on the amount of stuff we seem to accumulate. Over the last few years I have become acutely aware of the clean up and throw out process. It started with empting my parent's home of 45 years with a double walk-up attic, then I downsized mysel
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08/17/2007
