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    Easter ... Is a Time of New Beginnings.                                   New Blooms.... New Life..... New Season, Longer Days, and more!What a great time for you to move up into a new home or buy a first home,  A time when homes look their best and a time when a spring drive to preview homes...

  If you are going to purchase Real Estate in a recession it would be best to buy low.  You must look for deals in locations that will be a good investment.  This will ensure that when the market goes back up your purchase will be profitable.  Forbes magazine did an article listing the markets th...

Qassia is a new Web 2.0 site that's in beta test, and it looks like the growth is explosive.  It's sort of an article site, but not really, it publishes what it calls "intel", which they define as a tidbit of information about a person, company, place, event, or thing.  So you can post snippets o...

   If your electricity went out and the public water was compromised and you could not leave your home for a week would you be able to survive?  (That would mean having enough food, water, and candles for a week.)If you live in the District of Columbia you should have received a guide book giving...

  Having trouble making your mortgage payments?Interested in refinancing? FHA Secure (HUD), PG County 203k Loan Program, and Life Line Refinance ProgramAre you delinquent?  Bridge-to-Hope (Deferred loan Program MAX $15,000)Considering a home purchase?                                              ...

Many times clients have contacted me about buying a bank foreclosure or a banked owned property that needs extensive repairs.  One of the programs that I talk to them about is the FHA 203k loan.The FHA 203k loan program is HUD's primary program for the rehabilitation and repair of single family p...

      In times like these we need to think of creative ways to market our services.  Here are some non-traditional ways you can get your ads out there.Ads in schools, health clubs, and bowling alleys.Ads on the telephone while on hold, restrooms, and cinemas before they play the movies.Ads on ATM...

  Almost any type of business can benefit from having a referral strategy.  Although there are some businesses it doesn't suit as well Real Estate is not one of them.A Referral - based business is not about getting more customers its about getting more referrals from the customers you already hav...

                                                                     HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAYROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUEIf you want your house sold.....Call Me.. I'll Do It For You! Seriously speaking, this is the time of year when people expereince job transfers.  Others are looking to purchase...

 Some say it's the competition that attracts them. Others say it's the entertaining nature of the business. Whatever the case, people everywhere are SOLD on auctions. Livestock, antiques, art, business equipment, collector cars, electronics, real estate it's hard to name something that hasn't bee...