The MD Suburbs of DC

Traditional Colonial on Large Lot just minutes to Andrews AFB or the Beltway.  Enjoy sunlight streaming into a cozy family room through picturesque sliding glass doors providing a view to a spacious, private back yard and custom multi-level deck perfect for grilling or relaxing with your favorite...

OK, folks.  Pay attention and see how being connected helps and, thanks to Active Rain, helps a lot..... Diane Olsen, a good Realtoy buddy of mine and a somewhat dormant Active Rainer, referred me to a great client who wanted to sell his house in MD and move into a condo in DC. Normally, this wou...

Every now and then I goof off a little and tune into CNBC to watch a little bt of what's going on in the world of money...or, at least, the financial markets.  For the longest time. Diane Olick of CNBC has been talking down the housing market. If you wanted to get depressed in a hurry she was the...

In a previous post, I wrote about how I bought the new Sentrilock card and card reader so I could easily access the new fangled lockboxes in the surronding Counties/Associations.  You see, everyone around us has already made the switch from Supra to Sentrilock and we're not due to complete the ch...

OK. I admit it!  I have an older computer.  Can you believe it only has a 30GB hard drive -- in a day and age when 200+++ hard drives are the norm.  About 1 GB of RAM wehn 3GB is the minimum to run Vista and Office together? So anyway, my local Association is getting ready to mutate, er, I mean m...

Let me know if I'm missing something here.... I have this nice listing in a great location in Bethesda (OK, not perfect, but still very nice) that's selling for a tad over a million bucks.  Ther's a sign in the yard as there are on other million plus homes in the area. It's listed in the MLS. I g...

In this post by my DC area colleague, James Dwoning, he laments having to call Listing Agents to make appointments to show homes to his buyer clients.  In a nutshell, his biggest beef is that if or when a Listing Agent  calls him back it's so much later that it's, well, too late. I use a showing ...

It's a little bit of a slow market and lots of buyers are looking at "short sales" as a way to buy a home cheaply. The challenge with that approach is that it takes the patience of Job to wade through the extremely long and convoluted process of getting the "third party approval" from the bank. T...

A month or so ago I was referred to a client from a Realtor colleague in Houston to sell the childhood home in College Park, MD.  I visited the house, spoke with the Persoal Rep. for the Estate and got the Listing Agreement with the house priced to sell.  Long story short, the offers came in, the...

I'm always surprised at some of the things people will provide in their feedback about a house they've visited. Some of the things are absolutely valid and even "fixable" by the Seller - things like paint or clutter or rooms that need more light.  Some things are absolutely beyond the control of ...