Real Estate Rocks! (Notes From your DC metro area real estate marketing expert!)

Unbelieveable.  I am not a natural salesperson.  I am the person who likes to sit in a room and come up with ways to promote everyone and everything except me.  I had to give that up for the most part to become a real estate agent.  So today, I had a showing at a building that I have listed and a...

Ahhhh beep beep.... awwww toot toot! Ya'll know the song.  I am about to toot my own horn.Today I settled on a house in Capitol Heights.  Capitol Heights is not known for high priced properties, but I just sold this house for the highest price EVER in the Bradbury Heights section of Capitol Heigh...

I have heard lots of outgoing messages on voicemail and some of them make me think that the agent did not read or listen to the directions!  Have you called someone and the name announcement turns out to be the whole message? You have to listen to this long drawn out message that is supposed to j...

$519,990TWO CAR GARAGE BRICK TOWNHOMEYOU WILL TRULY LOVE TO BE AT HOME!!Astor Elevation D with Brick Front Up to 2,700 Sq Ft of Living Space 3 Bedroom, 3 Full and 1 Half Baths Concrete Driveway with Brick Border Brick Walkway Convenient Silver Spring location, minutes from Beltway and Metro Morni...

 NEW CONSTRUCTION IN WALDORF MARYLAND - PRINCE GEORGES COUNTYCarolina Beaded Siding 30-Year Landmark Dimensional Shingles Tyvek House Wrap Painted Foundation Concrete Front Porch Stamped Concrete Driveway and Sidewalk Garage Door Openers Carriage Style Insulated Garage Doors Professionally Landsc...

I can help you buy new construction!Imagine this...You are taken to court and you go without a lawyer.  Do you lean over to the opposing side and ask them if you can use their lawyer too? Of course not - so don't do that when it comes to making one of the biggest investments of your life. Get you...

Hello!Here is the much anticipated (lol) part III in my very own series "Agent Photos... the good, the bad, and the "are you sure about that?"In my earlier posts, I got comments/questions about the type of attention that a good photo can get.  I never really thought about who was looking at my pi...

I have always loved taking pictures.  I was a manicurist and then a cosmetologist in college and owned a salon for a while after that (I know I look young - I eat lots of yogurt - lol), so I took a lot of photos of nails and hairstyles, etc. I haven't purchased a new camera since 2000.  That one ...

Buyers like to believe they are getting more than they are paying for.  So as a seller, you have to know how to get that feeling across to your buyer when they are deciding between purchasing your home and another home that is very similar to yours.  Here are some ways that I have increased the p...

I am not a huge pet lover.  I had a dog once in college named Murlow.  I didn't know it was a girl until I got it home. THEN, not being a big drinker, or at least not a consumer of quality liquor (you know how college is), I heard "Merlot" on a movie and chose it as the dog's name, cause I liked ...