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Great Advice from Your Local Home Improvement Store - 01/30/08 06:09 PM

Every so often I get a great one page flyer from Lowe's - the home improvement store. It's all about getting you home ready or getting you home nice or just puttering around. It's a quick read and mostly right on the money. This one is about getting organized and de-cluttering, … (0 comments)

Customer Service the way it should be... - 01/30/08 08:23 AM

I just came away from two customer service experiences that were so positive I just had to blog about them. It just served as a reminder that, done right, great customer service makes me feel so warm and fuzzy and with such positive feelings toward the provider that I will gladly … (3 comments)

"Short" Sales, the Media and You - 01/29/08 09:54 PM

I just finished watching a show on CNBC called The Millionaire Inside: Debt Makeover and I was astonished at the real estate advice the Money Mentors were offering.
Granted. The debtors (two couples and two singles) were in deep debt and had pretty poor credit scores as a result. However, there … (2 comments)

Housing Statistics for College Park and Berwyn Heights, MD - 01/24/08 08:27 PM

Here are the housing statistics for December 2007 in the City of College Park and Town of Berywn Heights, MD. As you can tell, it's a little better than Prince George's County as a whole but still not a pretty picture with the number of sales significantly down and the Days … (1 comments)

How to be Number 1 on the AR Hit Parade - 01/22/08 05:28 AM

I'm relatively new to Active Rain and I have to admit that I'm not tuned into all the tricks and hacks in order to get to the top of the list. Heck, I'm not even really sure how to get a nice little HTML signature file to show up at the … (11 comments)

Preparing Your Home to Sell -- Setting the Stage - 01/19/08 09:51 AM

In my previous posts about getting your home ready for sale I emphasized the importance of --
1. Being Priced Competitively
2. The Benefits of Location
3. The Overall Condition of Your Home
4. Curb Appeal
5. Making Repairs and de-cluttering and
6. How Long it Might Take Your Home to Sell
Now, it's time to put … (1 comments)

Housing Trends in Prince George's County -- Up or Down? - 01/18/08 04:14 PM

Our local Multiple Listing Service (known as MRIS) provides a ton more in services than just listing your home. It also provides accurate data regarding housing sales. Below is a general overview of the situation in Prince George's County. It ain't pretty.
… (0 comments)

Making Your Home Attractive to Buyers - 01/12/08 10:27 PM

Now that you've decided to put your home on the market and make the outside look great (curb appeal) and you've priced your home competitively so that you will attract the most buyers possible it's time to make the inside look great. In the age of the Internet and with lots … (1 comments)

Realtors and their cars - 01/05/08 10:12 PM

Way back in October (is that way back?) I posted something called Realtors and their Photos asking the question posed from a great guy at Adaptive Blue about why Realtors have their photos on thier business cards.This post is about cars and I'll come to the point in a minute.When I … (5 comments)

Discussion of the DC Metro Area Housing Market on WAMU -- 88.5 FM - 01/03/08 12:21 PM

I just finished listening to almost an hour of discussion on the Kojo Nnamdi Show about the housing market in the DC Metro area. Fascinating stuff. There was a lot of talk about the outer Virginia suburbs (Loudon and Prince William Counties) but there was a healthy dose of discussion about the … (1 comments)

Preparing Your Home to Sell -- Curb Appeal - 01/02/08 07:36 AM

A big part of what home owners can control when putting their home on the market is the over all condition of their home. Certainly, curb appeal -- how your home looks when you drive up to it -- is very important. The grass should be nicely mowed and any gardening … (2 comments)

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