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2007
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This has been a summer of distractions. My house is in the middle of a renovation project that has been a major source of irritation. I took a couple of weeks off to rest on Cape Cod, then I came home to face a family crisis. So, now things are starting to resolve themselves and I am planning ...
08/31/2007
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There is an Editor's Note in the latest issue of Realtor Magazine that I thought was a little odd. It was all about Realtor Safety Week, September 9th through the 15th. It discusses all the lurking bad guys out there who want to rob, rape or maim or murder us and recites all of those platitudes...
08/31/2007
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Last November, an adorable fluff ball joined my household. My expectation was that he would be one of those adorably cute little creatures who could ride around in the car with me, come into the office, and sit in on my business card photo session. OK, so exploiting your pet is a little hokey - ...
08/30/2007
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One of my favorite cousins and clients is a handsome young Secret Service agent. An important part of his defensive driving training was learning to do a 180 degree turn in every imaginable vehicle, from a Hummer to a stretch limousine. And I've been thinking that this is a good skill for real ...
08/30/2007
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The other day, a favorite colleague asked me to help her price a house. She would be competing against two other top agents. She was psyched! So we drove over to the house in a less than chic DC neighborhood. The seller had purchased it two years ago, and was a fixxer upper. It needed a whol...
08/28/2007
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Between 1908 and 1940, Sears Roebuck is said to have sold about 100,000 homes from their catalogue. They came in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and Rosemary Thornton’s book, The Houses That Sears Built, gives lots of details on how they were built and how to spot one.They became popular after Wo...
08/26/2007
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For about five of my twenty-four years in real estate, I was lucky enough to work with an amazing broker named Charlie Krogman, another one of my patron saints of real estate (yes, he is now St. Charlie). It was the mid-1980s, and Charlie was wise, a character and a legend in Washington, DC re...
08/26/2007
The other day, I was in the car with the radio tuned to my local NPR station. They were doing their financial market segment, and interviewed the adorable teenage boy I forgot to have! This kid spent his summer trying to figure out how to make an I-Phone work on his family's plan for T-Mobile. ...
08/26/2007
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At a recent Open House, a really nice woman came in, spent a long time looking the place over, and then struck up a conversation. "So, is this a racially mixed neighborhood?" she asked. I explained to her that I answered that question, I could wind up in the slammer with a revoked real estate lic...
08/25/2007
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St Joseph is the widely recognized patron saint of real estate agents. Many of my colleagues and my own clients have planted his statue, head down, next to a For Sale sign so he will help the house sell. Ah, but there is another saint who I’ve found to be even more helpful.Soon after I got into ...
08/25/2007
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