Tom Robinson Team Northern Virginia Home Values

Fairfax County Police are trying to identify two juveniles who threw animal feces, deck chairs, and other items in the Sideburn Run Pool on Zion Road in Fairfax. If you can identify the juveniles in WUSA9 video in the upper right corner of the page of the link, please contact the Fairfax County C...

I suspect most people have heard the saying "No one on their deathbed ever said ‘I should have spent more time at the office'" I think most people would agree with that statement. We spend our busy lives working to build a career, put our kids through school, and hope for at least some form of co...

An interesting article in this morning's Washington Post regarding the wide discrepancy between the D.C. metro area and the rest of the nation. The article notes that if Washington were a financial or arts capital like New York or L.A. then the wealth in the area would be more widely acceptable b...

Here is another one from the Virginia Association of Realtors Newsletter. It seems that Fannie Mae is looking at sueing specifically, but not limited to, "Strategic mortgage defaulters." I have preached about this before, those who strategically default think that they will not pay any price for ...

I just read an email from the Virginia Association of Realtors that Virginia is ranked #20 nationwide for mortgage fraud. The blurb went on to say that Virginia is doing its best to get off the list by "licensing all mortgage originators" through the National Mortgage License System. The final co...

That's a quote from this week's Parade magazine that may be,depending on your paper, on your doorstep in the morning if not delivered early on Saturday like mine is. The title of the article is "Red, White, and Scammed," and it focuses on one person, Diann Traina who was ripped off by an unscrupu...

Looks like even the even the local police and an FBI agent was in on the mortgage fraud of the past few years. The FBI has been rumored to have moles working for organized crime so this doesn't surprise me at all. South Florida has been a hotbed for scams (Medicare fraud tops coke dealing accordi...

Active Rain Grows like crabgrass on the internet. It is a unique and powerful tool that I ,and you, have discovered that will eventually move those who use it correctly way beyond some of their competitors. Here is why I think so. Up until two years ago , I owned a web design and internet marketi...

Everyone by now has heard about strategic defaults, but what about strategic prison time. I am writing this a bit "tongue in cheek" but it is based on a real life situation that I will explain in the next paragraph. Except for the usual "make cash at home in your underwear" scams on the internet,...

I was looking at Marketwatch.com to catch up on the start of the week. There on the front page was an article about a lady in Maine who is on the brink due to losing unemployment benefits after having been unemployed for about 18 months. It's tough out there. Its touch to find ANY job. Its tough ...