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2012 

Northern Virginia Short Sale Quiz:  Question #8 Working with Northern Virginia Short Sales since 2007, I have certainly learned more from the Short Sales I've closed than I could ever hope to learn in a Short Sale designation class.  Experience is a phenomenal teacher.  The problem with classes i...
03/06/2012
What Makes a House a Home? Everyone has their own sense of what makes a house a home.  For some it's not home until grandmother's china is on display in the dining room.  For others it isn't home until they've made their own home theater where they'll enjoy movies every weekend.  Most everyone ca...
03/04/2012
In Honor of the Upcoming St. Patrick's Day Holiday, Join Bartender, Make it a Double In July 2010 I took my Active Rain involvement to a new level.  I started a group:  Bartender, Make it a Double.  It's a place where you can share your successes or vent about your bad days.  Really, you can post...
03/04/2012
Northern Virginia Short Sale Quiz:  Question #7 Sometimes I feel like a caped crusader in the fight for a true understanding of what a Northern Virginia Short Sale is and how it works.  Not only do buyers and sellers have a hard time understanding the ins and outs of a Short Sale, but so do real ...
03/04/2012
Northern Virginia Short Sale Quiz:  Question #6 To combat the misconceptions that buyers, sellers and even real estate agents have about Northern Virginia Short Sales, I decided to have this series of questions to help answer the most commonly misconstrued areas of a Short Sale.  If you want to c...
03/02/2012
Mortgage Fraud is Now a Business Plan Mortgage fraud has apparently become a business plan.  I was stunned to receive a phone call yesterday from an investment group that was approaching Northern Virginia Short Sale Agents about ways to keep home owners in their upside down homes.  How?  By buyin...
03/01/2012
Is a Good Idea a Bad Idea When it Solves a Rarely Occurring Short Sale Problem? Yesterday must've been cold call a Short Sale Agent day.  I received two sales calls from investors who had two totally different business plans.  One was actually not a bad idea, though maybe not as useful as the cal...
03/01/2012
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