Archive for February, 2008
Don’t Give Up Your Personal Contact Information So Easily!
There are lots of web sites out there promising you all kinds of help you might not need if you are buying or selling a house or condo. It might be access to a gazillion lenders or real estate agents who will cut interest rates or commissions for a crack at your business. It might [...]
Showing Granny’s House
I just got home from showing a bunch of houses in my favorite champagne-taste, beer-budget neighborhoods, and one of them looked amazing on the MRIS. It was the only house in this neighborhood that actually was beer budget. It wasn’t the style my buyers were looking for, but they wanted a big lot, and this [...]
Making Sense Of DC Real Estate Trends
If you are a Washington Area consumer trying to make sense of news reports about the local real estate market, you really have to listen carefully and read between the lines. If, for example, you are listening to a nightly news report on a national network or cable news program, you will be getting information [...]
My Little Zillow Meltdown
Since I actually met the Zillow folks at BloggersConnect last week, I’m almost tempted to take down the couple of rants I’ve done in a couple of blog posts, but as I learned, “Once on the Internet, always on the Internet”. Here in Washington, there are special challenges for any company trying to get an [...]



