It's no fun, and one of those endlessly repeating things a homeowner has to put up with. But it’s so important that I will preach it here again: Clean out your gutters! If the gutters on your house look like the one on my garage here in the picture, you should actually clean them out NOW! At least in our area, the trees are pretty much done shedding--even the annual leaf collection and cutter trucks have finally passed through most of our streets. If there was only one thing I have learned from the … (4 comments)
real estate: Slowly, Slowly but Stable: Colonial Village 3rd Quarter Statistics
- 10/06/10 08:27 AM
Is it really so bad, so dead? Why are there so few houses on the market? Well, the 3rd Quarter of 2010 is over, and it's time to look at some comparative statistics. As every season is different when it comes to some enduring factors in DC real estate, we will compare to the same quarter of the previous year. First of all, the impression that few people are putting their homes on the market at the moment seems correct. In comparison to the 3rd Quarter of 2009, closed sales have dropped 50% (from a total of 4 in 2009 to … (5 comments)
real estate: The Pentagon, Peter Rabbit , and 9/11 – A Personal Real Estate Story
- 09/10/08 06:41 AM
Unlike many of our friends, I hadn’t actually known anybody in person who was on one of the planes, or in one of the buildings. Strangely, the closest I ever got to a victim was through real estate. But this is Washington, and here you’re always in the middle of the news. My husband covered Flight 93 for the Washington Post, and our house near downtown Washington was only a few miles away from the Pentagon. (Yes, I admit it, I went there as soon as I could and as close I could get.) The shock, the pain and the anger … (7 comments)
Original source: DChouseCat--Over And Over Again
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