Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Planning is Important When it Comes to Seeing a Home Looking for a Bristow or Gainesville, VA home? In the seller’s market the area is experiencing, planning is critical. At the same time, so is being available on short notice for showings. How do those two things go together? Allow me to explain. When it Read More …
Instant Buyer’s Remorse Being a child of the eighties, I can hear the Asia song, “Heat of the Moment” in my head as I put this post together. In the excitement of getting an offer together in a competitive, multiple offer situation, many Bristow and Gainesville buyers are being swept into making offers that have Read More …
Gainesville, VA Home Gets 26 Offers After Three Days on the Market When I first put 15124 Santander Drive as a Coming Soon listing on January 8th (2021,) I knew it was going to be a heartbreaker. Before there was a really good professional photo of anything, we had about eight showings. The day that Read More …
Buyer’s Agent Reputation & Network The other day I saw a buyer on a local Facebook group looking for a Buyer’s Agent. Apparently, the rebate agent she had hired was not doing her any good, probably because the firm she hired works differently than traditional brokerages. They pay agents by the hour to show homes. Read More …
Just Listed: Six Bedroom Single Family Home in Gainesville Legitimate six bedroom homes are hard to come by in Gainesville, VA when you are spending less than $800,000. When I first met with the owners of 15124 Santander Drive, theirs was a four bedroom home with an unfinished basement. However, they had planned on finishing Read More …
Every Presidential Inauguration Day The suburbs of Washington, DC can be the most politically charged area in our country. Living outside of our nation’s capital for my entire life, politics is the common theme of all that happens here. I remember when I was a college student, visiting Los Angeles and being stunned at their Read More …
Seller’s Markets Often Create Seller Complacency The Bristow/Gainesville real estate market has so many more buyers than sellers that homes in all kinds of price ranges are getting multiple offers when they hit the market. This type of market condition can lead to seller complacency. The basic idea is that sellers may decide to do Read More …
What Goes into a Great Listing? Not all listing agents do the same job for their sellers. Some listing agents may not even know some of the informational options at their disposal when inputting a listing. It’s important to know what differentiates a great listing from a listing that is so non-descriptive it may be Read More …
Being a Polite Neighbor If you are a member of any social media platform with a neighborhood group or a community based social media platform, no doubt you will be shaking your head in violent agreement when I tell you the biggest complaints neighbors have about neighbors. These come from fourteen years of experience as Read More …
For Rent in Haymarket’s Dominion Valley Hitting the market today, this one car garage townhouse in the gated portion of Dominion Valley is available for quick occupancy at $2,600/month. To answer a frequently asked question up front, no pets. You can see the virtual tour of 5540 Arrowfield Terrace by clicking the link provided. In Read More …