selling: ANOTHER ONE SOLD! YOU JUST NEVER KNOW.... - 02/03/09 12:21 AM
I will be the first to tell you that this is a great house. I loved this house when I sold it to my clients a year ago and I still love it. It is a gorgeous home. However, trying to sell it in this market was not easy. Oh we got several offers on the property, but they were those "are you kidding me?" type of offers, and we couldn't quite give it away. When I recommended to my clients that we drop the price to 475K I told them that I was certain we would get an offer right … (5 comments)

selling: Sometimes it is the little things we do that make the biggest impression - 02/05/08 02:01 PM
Sometimes it is the little things we do that make the biggest impression 
A few weeks ago I called a homeowner and left a message saying that I have a client that may want to buy their home. (There home is not presently on the market) I really do have a client that pointed out their house and said "that is the one I want" so like a good agent, I went after it for them. Isn't that what you would do?
 
I could not believe it when I received a message on my phone from the homeowner saying sure bring them by.
In the end, … (18 comments)

selling: How To Lose a house in 10 Days - 11/27/07 01:49 PM
 
If you didn't see the Movie "How to Lose a Guy in ten day" it is probably a good thing because none of those rules apply.  
 He, the advertising executive, bets his friends that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days and she, the journalist, is writing an article about how to lose a guy in 10 days.  They meet, she makes his life miserable, he puts up with it because he is trying to get her to fall in love with him and she gets more and more annoying and strange until he can't … (10 comments)

selling: RESULTS in 20 MINUTES - 11/06/07 04:34 AM
 
 RESULTS IN 20 MINUTES
 
The other day I saw this heading on a magazine. " RESULTS IN 20 MINUTES"  Of course, I opened the magazine to read the article. While I read how I could change my body in ONLY 20 minutes, I could not help but laugh about the impatience in all of us. Okay, most of us....
When I  think about how I am going to market my Northern Virginia properties to sell,
or how am I going to get a featured blog, or how I can make a million bucks,
I can easily attach the word "fast" to every one … (9 comments)