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2009
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One of the best neighborhoods in Chevy Chase is Kenwood Forest, a community of nearly 400 townhouses and one level one bedroom or studio condos, created between 1978 and 1980 from an apartment complex built after WWII. While prices have dropped over the last 2 years, buyers still call me frequen...
03/31/2009
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I confess that I did something moderately funny and very ridiculous last Saturday. I tried to race a 14 year old on a down hill slalom course when I was on vacation in Vail. I was winning until.... Well, lets just say I didn't win after I fell, wrenched my knee and took myself out of competition....
03/26/2009
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Last year I met a wonderful young woman, Kerry, who works as a ski instructor at Vail. That makes her perfect by almost any definition since the Vail ski instructors are some of the best instructors anywhere, but the icing on the cake last year was that Kerry is also a realtor! Of course, my daug...
03/26/2009
When I got my associate broker's license in 1989, I joked with my family that I was going to sell $1M houses, pop bonbons, and drive a Jaguar. Of course, the market tanked immediately after I got my license, there were no bonbons (bad for my waistline). I never drove a Jaguar - always drove a Je...
03/21/2009
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When I got my associate broker's license in 1989, I joked with my family that I was going to sell $1M houses, pop bonbons, and drive a Jaguar. Of course, the market tanked immediately after I got my license, there were no bonbons (bad for my waistline). I never drove a Jaguar - always drove a Je...
03/20/2009
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This is a street sign in San Francisco as you walk up to Coit Tower. I have a standard poodle in Maryland, and when I saw this, I really missed him. The only thing negative about a standard poodle is that he doesn't fit under my seat on an airplane trip, so I have to leave him home!
03/18/2009
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\ If you have never seen a girls' ice hockey game, you have missed a great sporting event. Girls aren't allowed to check, but otherwise, the game is the same as boys ice hockey. It is fast, and very exciting. Girls play ice hockey really well.We had our final hockey games this weekend at the Pony...
03/16/2009
Before you respond - remember - this is my fantasy - where everything is rational and orderly according to my rules. And yes, I know that the banks are working hard, and we all need to be patient, but this is my fantasy..... We have been waiting for 6 weeks for the bank to respond to my buyer's o...
03/12/2009
My mother is on social security and gets so little money that she never has to pay income taxes. She just had part of her kidney removed for cancer at Johns Hopkins. Medicare and her supplemental health coverage guaranteed that she had access to the best doctors in the world with only a very mode...
03/09/2009
I am chairing a charity auction this fall to raise money for cystic fibrosis research because my daughter has cystic fibrosis and I am trying to raise as much money as possible for a very worthy cause. Having said that, I should also add that fund raising is not easy these days with the down tu...
03/08/2009
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Lise Howe
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As an full time and very active Realtor in the DC metro area, I love to write about the DC market, special communities within the market, and new listings, and to connect with other agents in ActiveRain on ways to improve our service to the public and our marketing abilities.