Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Selling My Own Home It started after a few delays getting on the market. Paint was touched up in rooms we had painted and new paint in rooms we had not touched in twenty-one years. Carpet was replaced. Projects that needed attention were handled. Twenty-one years of accumulated stuff was removed as we had downsized Read More …
3 Offer Strategies that Can Backfire on Buyers When buyers have found a home they wish to purchase, the next step is making an offer. Buyer agents take a look at the most recent comparable sales and let their clients know what the most likely sold price range will be for that home of interest. Read More …
Everyone Deserves a Home Was a Success! On October 4th (2025) it was my pleasure to host a cat adoption/fundraising event with Must Love Cats Rescue in my community of Braemar in Bristow. The neighborhood was alerted through social media and past and present clients invited to attend, or donate, to support the cause. Of Read More …
Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone When Selling Over the course of years when meeting with sellers, the message is given time and again, “You don’t sell a home the way you live in a home.” What does that mean? Your day to day drop zones, clutter and habits need to be transformed. Spaces suited Read More …
Just Listed: Active Adult Duplex in Dunbarton Duplexes in Dunbarton do not hit the market as often as Active Adult buyers would like. In the past, I have had to resort to working my Dunbarton network to find one of these gems for interested buyers. Today, I am the proud Listing Agent of a gorgeous Read More …
Feeling Trapped in Your Home By Your Low Mortgage Interest Rate? There are plenty of home owners out there right now that would love to sell a home they have outgrown, but feel they must stay in the home they currently own because it was financed on a lower interest rate. In the much bigger Read More …
Oops…That Isn’t Common Area After All At the tail end of 2002, very happy home buyers closed on a deal in the Active Adult community of Dunbarton in Bristow. They had landed one heck of a deal–a large brand new, three level home backing to Broad Run and siding on the east to what the Read More …
Is It Happening Again? As 2023 began, Northern Virginia real estate agents were wondering if the pause in the market that happened in the last third of 2022 was going to continue. Interest rates had more than doubled during 2022, but going into 2023, they had eased a bit. Were they back in the threes Read More …
Buying Your View and Privacy Log in to any neighborhood social media site or group and you are bound to hear often repeated themes. In high density neighborhoods in Bristow, Virginia, medium to large single family homes are squished into fifth to quarter acre lots. This is prevalent in Gainesville and Haymarket as well. Privacy Read More …
Do Sellers Always Take the Highest Offer? If a seller is reviewing multiple offers on a home, the first thing that becomes the focus is price. How much does each offer net them? Once that burning question is answered, other questions come up. In the case of the townhouse that I closed today in Bristow, Read More …