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2011
Location, Timing and Price: Real Estates Triumvirate. All of these are almost equally important when we are putting a listing on the market, and they are also inter-dependent. You have a house. Let's say it's in great condition. But what it will sell for will depend in large part upon where it...
07/31/2011
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As a kid, I always hated Brussels sprouts. For years, I had to be force fed the things I really, truly honest to gosh hated them. And eventually, my mother gave up trying to get my brother and I to eat them. Then one day recently I had some at a neighbors. They were fresh steamed with some c...
07/31/2011
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Last week was a busy one. Between triple digit thermometer readings (and those were not just in my oven), getting a new (un-airconditioned) listing ready for market, and helping with the Why I Chose Real Estate Contest, it's been quite a week. So here are my favorites: 1. Carla Muss-Jacobs: Si...
07/31/2011
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This guy lives on one corner of the aptly named Buffalo Bridge that spans Beach Drive through Rock Creek Park and connects Georgetown to Dupont Circle. He is awfully realistic, as are his buddies on the other corners of the bridge. One of my favorite condo buildings, located at 2500 Q Street N...
07/29/2011
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They signed the listing agreement and then took off for one of their many big adventures. This time it was floating down the Amazon on some sort of wooden raft. But they assured me that there would be a whole series of Internet cafes where they could stop every few days to check their email. B...
07/29/2011
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As a new agent, I once entered a vacant house for a preview using the lock box. It was a cute house and had just been listed by a really nice woman who was a local real estate legend and, at the time, the top agent for Coldwell Banker in the whole entire country. All went well until nature calle...
07/29/2011
Like many real estate professionals, I did not grow up with the burning ambition to list and sell homes. But then, my first burning ambition was to be a nun and teach fifth grade in a Catholic elementary school. Sister Mary Letitia was my very first professional role model. My introduction to t...
07/29/2011
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The particles are tiny, and sub-micrscopic that can creep into houses. And they are generally considered to be not good for your lungs. One of the contingencies in our local boiler plate contracts allows the buyers, if they choose, a few days to have a radon test done. If they find radon, the ...
07/27/2011
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Tonight, we hopped on the Metro and headed for National's Stadium to watch the home team play the Florida Marlins. Unfortunately, the home team played like nuns. When we left during the eighth inning, the score was 5 to 1, and unless there was a ninth inning miracle, we got beat. Still, it wa...
07/27/2011
I love book stores, and Borders has been about the biggest book store in this area. And back when Borders and Barnes and Nobles opened, a lot of people wondered if this was the death knell to the smaller, locally owned book sellers, like Politics and Prose, Olssen's and Kramerbooks. And while P...
07/25/2011
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