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When Your Buyers Want Out
June 28, 2021
You put your home on the market looking like high powered buyer bait, and you were lucky enough to get several good offers. You chose the one with what you thought had the best price, best terms and least risk of falling apart. Then you got the call from your ...
Continue ReadingRabbit Holes
Rabbit Holes Since I left Kansas in my teens, I’ve been a Francophile. And most of my life, I’ve wanted to live in Paris, or at least someplace in France. And once I got completely hooked on Martin Walker’s murder mystery series, Bruno, Chief of Police, the someplace in France became the Perigord, ...
Continue ReadingNoisy Neighbors!
People who are considering a home in the DC Metro area have many types of properties from which to choose, and in the city, most of them involve living in pretty close quarters with your neighbors. And high density living can also mean high decibels. A lot of our housing stock ...
Continue ReadingWater Hazards
At settlements, there is a document that the title company orders, the floodplain certification. This tells you that someone checked to see if your new place is located on an area where the Potomac River or some other nearby stream or creek, is statistically likely to visit your house anytime during ...
Continue ReadingThere are Fixer Uppers, and There are Real Fixer Uppers!
Over the past few years, real estate professionals have been spoiling our buyers. When a house goes on the market today, it’s almost always gone through a pre-listing transformation that’s turned it into true buyer bait. And homes that are listed looking like normal human beings live in them? They ...
Continue ReadingNavigating the 2021 Bidding Wars
It started early this year, and so far, there is no letup. Ugh! Recently, I listed a pretty house in my neighborhood. Within five minutes of going live, my iPhone started to dance around my desk. And over the next few days, people were lined up waiting to get in. ...
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