The MD Suburbs of DC

I had a nice heart-to-heart with the Seller of this wonderful 3 bedroom rambler and he agreed that a price reduction was in order. It's in a fabulous location -- a short bike ride to the University of MD, near NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USDA and METRO. That's right! You can be at the Green...

In two (count 'em two) sections on the Washington Post this morning there are articles about the demise of the Facebook app/game, Scrabulous.  Unfortunately (or fortunately) I never downloaded the app or played it.  As with more apps on Facebook, it's really hard to tell what they are until you d...

Well I got the new laptop this morning and I played around with it this afternoon --  getting it connected to my wireless network at home, downloading Outlook from my Microsoft Exchange Server service provider, configuring Outlook with Microsoft Exchange Server so my laptop, my desktop, my phone ...

As many of my readers know, I'm not shy about posting my experiences with vendors (see my series of posts on an experience with a service provider that was less than optimal). So I'm very pleased to write about an experience that was, in my view, superlative.  In this case it's about RealBird. I ...

Well, it's almost a done deal.  All that's needed is for "W" to sign the thing and it's LAW.  No more Ameridream or Nehemiah help for the moderate and income buyer.  On top of that, the FHA downpayment is moving UP from 3% to 3.5% Borrowers can still get gifts from family members and the like.  O...

In today's Washington Post Business section there is this article about the pending demise of Down Payment Assistance for home buyres from the likes of the Nehemiah Program and Ameridream. It seems that HUD has finally convinced Congress that Down Payment Assistance, as it may come from one of th...

I haven't bought new computer in a long, long time.  Maybe 3-4 years. And that was a desktop.  The last time I bought a laptop there was something called Windows ME as the operating system and that lasted about two months before XP came out. Anyway, I'm getting tired of being the only one in Star...

An update on my client's progress with his buddy, the DIYer, who has been working on this poor guy's townhouse for the last month.  Oh yeah, vacant townhouse.  So there's nothing in the way.  No one living there to schedule around.  Just go in, do the job, get paid and get out. But the contractor...

A few posts ago I blogged about the injustice of personal friends or family members not approaching me to represent them as their Realtor.  Many readers commented that it was probably a blessing in disguise. Well, now I'm running into a situation where the Seller is using a friend to do some cont...

I would really like to sell more million dollar homes and, until just recently, I thought it was all about the commission.  Now, I'm convinced I was all wrong. I have this nice listing in Bethesda, MD that belongs to some wonderful past (and present) clients of mine that listed for $1,050,000.  I...