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2014
Every Settlement Table Has a Star... This One Had Mr. T. Usually the attorney is the one that gets all the attention at the settlement table. Not this morning. Bright and early at 9am I was honored to be in the presence of Mr. T. Mr. T.'s parents were selling a home and moving out of state. H...
08/22/2014
Just Sold: New Construction by Ryan Homes in Brookside Whenever I am around a new agent, I encourage them to take tenant clients. Of course, the hope is that they will eventually buy, but I've always felt that if they didn't, and you did your best to help them, you would reap referrals. In the...
08/22/2014
Should a Bristow or Gainesville Seller Offer Sub-Agency Compensation? In order to answer that question, let's first talk about the listing process and the different forms of agency. If you are hiring an agent to list your home, you are hiring them to represent YOUR side of the transaction. That...
08/20/2014
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Blown Off By a Builder This afternoon I went out to preview what was supposed to be an immediate delivery home in a large, gated golf course community that my buyers have decided is on their short list. In fact, they know exactly the model home they want. They found it in a resale, but the sell...
08/19/2014
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Delete That Blog Post Immediately! Not exactly the words you want to see in the subject line of an email. Yet, waiting for me upon returning to my office from a settlement, there it was. The person who had sent the email had done so through Active Rain, so the sender read "lead @activerain.com....
08/18/2014
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Another Bristow Townhouse SOLD!! When I met the Seller of this Braemar end unit townhouse in Braemar, I agreed to something I wouldn't normally do...a thirty day listing agreement. I took it on the condition of the agreed to list price and the fact that the tenants in the home would be out befor...
08/18/2014
Lucking Out and Getting Someone From the Roger Mucci School of Sales Today was a lazy Sunday. I had no work to do and wanted to just go out and do some window shopping. I made a layaway payment on a ring I have reserved at Jared, only to get more pressure from the staff to just open a line of c...
08/17/2014
Shopping for the Lowest Priced Repair Can Sometimes Cost You More Not too long ago, I represented a seller who was asked to do some minor roof repairs which amounted to having an area of missing shingles replaced. There were three weeks between the request and settlement, his deadline to get it ...
08/16/2014
Great Alternative to Townhouse Living OverviewMapsPhotosDescriptionNeighborhoodMarket Stats $325,000 Single Family Home Main Features 3 Bedrooms2 Bathrooms1 Partial BathroomInterior: 1,456 sqftLot: 0.16 acre(s) Location 12443 Iona Sound DriveBristow, VA 20136USA Chris Ann Cleland Long & Foster R...
08/15/2014
The Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches & Ice Cream are at Moo Thru My assistant, Heidi lives in Culpeper. That's about forty-five minutes from my home in Bristow. Today we met at a halfway point between our homes, Moo Thru in Remington, so I could drop off some mailing materials to her. And of cou...
08/14/2014
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