No, this isn't a personal question about your belly button. Buyers moving to Northern Virginia often see the phrase "inside" or "outside" the beltway in MLS descriptions and wonder where are these locations on the map. For those who have lived in the Northern Virginia most of our lives we have wa
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12/31/2009
There isn't a much better way to kick off 2010 than learning from the best in Social Media. It only takes a minute to register and though you might already be looking for tax deductions for next year this event is FREE.Sign up today! Our goal is to reach 3000 registered attendees to VirtualReBar
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12/31/2009
Fortunately for the residents of Lorton (VA) the guard towers at old reformatory now stand only as a "decorative" element surrounding the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center. When the prison closed Fairfax County and local developers worked together to save many of the original brick buildings while
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12/30/2009
Take one house with closets already overflowing, throw in holiday decorations and a few deliveries from UPS and soon you have a house that is ready to explode. The holidays are a great time to put your home on a diet. A clean up of all of those items that have been sitting on the closet shelves f
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12/28/2009
Relocation is always stressful. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve made a move the minute you get the word to pack your bags you need to learn the “language” of a new area. In Northern Virginia part of that new language is deciphering the difference between our cities and our counties. Nor
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12/28/2009
As you walk down Waterman Way at National Harbor along the Potomac River you can't miss the beautiful mosac mural next to the staircase heading to the marina. The mural depicts life along the Potomac River with a sea captain, crabs, fish and sea turtles. The mosaic was created by a loc
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12/27/2009
In a real estate market where prices have declined military families with PCS orders face a difficult decision. Do you hold on to your home and rent hoping for prices to rebound in another 3-5 years or attempt a short sale and hope that your lender will consider PCS orders a "hardship?"There are
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12/26/2009
Our family has a holiday tradition of making a gingerbread house. Usually there are multiple people who work on the project and sometimes there is a difference on decorating style. This year was no exception.Two people were working on the project and just as with any building project change ord
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12/25/2009
Renee brings up an interesting point. There are many agents who are presenting themselves as short sale "experts" who have not developed any systems to handle the complexities and tracking of a short sale.Though I don't think the associations or the lenders will go to a permit system but an app
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12/24/2009
