Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Is It Too Late to List? Many people are of the belief that if you aren’t listing during warmer months (spring and summer,) you have no chance of selling your home. Since I have been a licensed agent in 2005, holidays are among some of the most hectic times in our market. Serious buyers are Read More …
How Clean Should You Leave the Home You Are Selling? Homeowners vary on what they consider clean. Ever walk into a home where the owner is making excuse after excuse about how messy the place is and you wonder if they even know what a mess is? Then there are folks who may have become Read More …
Repeat Clients are the Ultimate Compliment The only thing better than a repeat client, is a repeat client who has had a real estate license. Someone who has worked in the industry and knows the complications and aggravations that may happen and trusts you to handle their transaction. Today, I am celebrating the fifth transaction Read More …
Pricing Your Home to Accept Lower Offers is Not Advised Selling twenty to thirty homes per year, mostly in Bristow and Gainesville, I am never surprised when a seller wants to increase a suggested list price in order to give them negotiating room. In the current market we are experiencing in the fourth quarter of Read More …
The Best Day of the Week to List Your Home Because I list more homes than an average agent in the Bristow-Gainesville marketplace, I have occasion to interact with a lot more sellers. The biggest question is always the generic, “When is the best time of year to list?” Nowadays, in our market with extreme Read More …
Evaluating Multiple Offers on Your Home Completing listing paperwork with a new seller this morning, I could feel the excitement bubbling to the surface. The seller smiled, “I hope there is a bidding war on our home. That would be fantastic. I want to see how high we can go.” Multiple offer situations are certainly Read More …
Seller Proceeds Don’t Arrive at the Closing Table in VA Many first time sellers, or sellers that have experience selling in other states, can get disappointed at the settlement table in Virginia when they find out they don’t get the proceeds from the sale of their home immediately. It would be quite a let down Read More …
Do Buyers Ever Write Offers on Homes Before They See Them? The real estate market in the western suburbs of Prince William County has been brutal for buyers in 2020. There is so much competition that buyers have been foregoing typical contract contingencies like home inspection, and sometimes even appraisal, just to have a shot Read More …