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 ReadingAt 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 ReadingOver 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 ReadingIt 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 ReadingA 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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Graying of Washington Neighborhoods My own house is typical of many Washington row houses built around 1915. It’s boxy with a front porch across the facade, and it’s built of bricks that are a sort of German dark mustard yellow. During the several decades I’ve lived here, I’ve been ...
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