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2008
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I just listed an absolutely amazing house! It’s “Rosedale Cottage”, and I feel totally honored to have been selected to market this place. It's built on property whose ownership dates back to 1793. George Washington’s aide-de-camp, General Uriah Forest, built his home on what he called the Ros...
04/30/2008
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post on the rating system I use for high-end homes that are for sale in the Washington market. Today on tour, a favorite colleague and I decided to take a look at a house priced in the high $3 millions. It sounded great, like the kind of house that a senior partne...
04/30/2008
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This was one of those days when I had almost no energy at all. So I spent the whole day (almost) goofing off. I played Snood (a dangerously addictive computer game) and played with Willie the hyper-active Labradoodle puppy. Then I caught up on some of my blog reading and comments. And yeah...
04/28/2008
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My contractor friend, Henry, told me about a job he just completed in Alexandria, Virginia for a friend of his. When He showed up to talk ideas, he learned that she had found a kitchen on Craig's List. While it was not ultra-top-of-the-line, which Henry usually installs, she said it was high en...
04/26/2008
Real estate agents are covered by the"Do Not Call" list. Under most circumstances, we can't even call a FSBO with a yard sign inviting everyone else in the world to call for information. So why does my cute little Blackberry, with a number that's been on the list since Day One, get calls with pe...
04/26/2008
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Here in DC, it hasn't snowed a whole lot this winter. But yesterday, as I was looking out my office window at the blooming azaleas and dogwoods, I found a virtual tour for a hugely expensive house, and there was snow on the ground from - last December? Even the ice bridge to Erid Kodner's Madeli...
04/26/2008
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The house at the right is in a neighborhood in Bethesda, right across the DC line in Maryland. It's neighbors are pretty architecturally diverse, but typical of homes built between 1930 to 1955. Some of them can be described on the MRIS profiles as "farm houses" and some are bungalows, a few co...
04/24/2008
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Here in Washington, lot of people (encouraged by their agents) put their homes on the market during the month of April. And there's a reason. Here in our nation's capital, almost every tree and puts out beautiful blossoms during the month of April. There are the famous cherry trees down by the...
04/24/2008
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Yesterday, I was checking out stuff in my neighborhood on our MLS. And Oh! My! God! There was a house that I’d missed! A stone Tudor, circa 1925, listed by Eddie Dugas, one of my absolutely favorite colleagues. And the price was in the five hundreds – the price of a hovel in this neighborho...
04/23/2008
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I saw a really pretty house today. It had fabulous curb appeal, and a location in one of DC's favorite neighborhoods on a tree-lined street. The kitchen had been expensively renovated, the hardwood floors gleamed, and the bathrooms were even nicer than mine. The staging was perfect, because it...
04/22/2008
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