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Noisy Neighbors!
June 28, 2021
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. ...
Continue ReadingWill “Open Concept” Become the Next Avocado Green and Harvest Gold for Kitchens?
When my parents moved to the Washington area sometime around 1970, their newly build house had the latest in the fashion of the day – a kitchen theme with avocado green and harvest gold in the appliances and wallpaper. It was about as chic and trendy as one could get, until ...
Continue ReadingHardwood Floors? Really?
A lot of the condominiums for sale in the District are in buildings erected after 1940 that have wood parquet floors. And when they go on the market, the sellers have often buried the parquet under new floors that look like wood. And in some newly constructed and renovated houses and ...
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