I would say this is one of the toughest questions to answer as a listing agent. It is frankly one of the buyer's business why the seller is selling, but it is rude and dismissive to just say "none ya bizness" - I save that for my inside voice. So I say things like "relocating" or "moving into
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06/17/2011
Keep all the lights off. Stay home for the showing, making the buyers feel like they can't enter the room you are in working and talking on the phone. Pack the house up with BIG furniture. For example, put a embassy sized dining set for 14 in a standard 80's colonial with a 12x14 dining room. Bl
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06/17/2011
I shun QR codes. I admit it. I think they are silly. I think they are over used and over hyped on Active Rain and other Real Estate forums. I've talked to many friends/clients/prospective buyers and sellers about them and most just get a blank stare when I bring them up. Once I explain what
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06/15/2011
You will hear "bad news" regarding real estate every where you turn these days, because the national news media focuses on national sales figures. National sales figures for real estate are pretty much an oxymoron - all real estate is local. Yes, you've heard it a thousand times, but it does no
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06/12/2011
If you are thinking about buying or selling a home, you might wonder how all these real estate agents you see get paid. You see them every Sunday at open houses and names on shopping carts and on signs around town. You might think that they are paid by the big company they "work for" because yo
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06/08/2011
McEnearney Associates just won 2nd place in the large company category in the Washington Business Journal's 2011 "Best Places to Work" contest. McEnearney is like no other real estate company, in that it is a family owned and managed "large boutique" with both international reach and an impeccab
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06/04/2011
This lovely rambler on 1/4 acre just closed this week. Listed at $425,000 we sold for $420,000 after a week on the market. This home went under extensive remodeling and staging to get it sold for this price, this quickly. The sellers had tried to sell in 2008 with another broker, but they had
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06/03/2011
Coral Gundlach | McEnearney Associates | (703) 200-3631 4132 41st Street North, Arlington, VA Contemporary retreat just minutes from the nation's capital. Lavishly updated - the best of indoor and outdoor living! 4BR/3BA Single Family House offered at $1,050,000 Year Built 1984 Sq Footage 4,050
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06/02/2011
Okay, this is just too funny not to share. I could never be as funny as Alan May no matter how hard I tried. But I am grateful to get to laugh to tears reading his blogs. Says so well why some homes don't sell and really puts the sellers perspective, um, into perspective! I am lucky enough
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06/01/2011
