Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Reaching Out on a Snow Day to Past Clients Today I used my snow day to reach out to my clients from 2020. Normally, I send out their settlement statements from their sales or purchases to them via regular mail in January. That way, they are right there, arriving with other tax preparation documents. However, Read More …
Planning is Important When it Comes to Seeing a Home Looking for a Bristow or Gainesville, VA home? In the seller’s market the area is experiencing, planning is critical. At the same time, so is being available on short notice for showings. How do those two things go together? Allow me to explain. When it Read More …
Gainesville, VA Home Gets 26 Offers After Three Days on the Market When I first put 15124 Santander Drive as a Coming Soon listing on January 8th (2021,) I knew it was going to be a heartbreaker. Before there was a really good professional photo of anything, we had about eight showings. The day that Read More …
Buyer’s Agent Reputation & Network The other day I saw a buyer on a local Facebook group looking for a Buyer’s Agent. Apparently, the rebate agent she had hired was not doing her any good, probably because the firm she hired works differently than traditional brokerages. They pay agents by the hour to show homes. Read More …
Who is a Gigantic Real Estate Geek? Never in my life did I think I would ever be proud of being a geek. I was a smart kid in high school with a bad perm, worse glasses and acne that made my forehead look like a mountain range. I was known as a geek back Read More …
What It Takes to Be Successful in a Multiple Offer Situation It only took until the 10th of January for this Top Bristow Real Estate Agent to get her first ratified contract of 2021. I’m sure there are agents out there bemoaning the fact real estate is slow right now. It is not. Buyers are Read More …
Parental Involvement When Buying Your First Home As a Top Bristow/Gainesvillle Real Estate Agent, I have encountered varying levels of parental involvement when it comes to first time home buyers. To start, not all first time buyers want their parents’ opinion or input. Sometimes, parents withdraw themselves from participating because they know some opinions they Read More …
There are Too Many Feelings in Real Estate When I say there are too many feelings in real estate, I’m not talking about the feelings buyers and sellers have. Those feelings are expected and legitimate. They may sometimes get in the way of finding a rational solution to a problem, but they are not the Read More …
How Long Does it Take a New Gainesville Listing to Get Attention? The holidays are over and despite the daily drama the news reports of increasing COVID numbers and civil unrest, Gainesville home buyers are out and about and ready to purchase. For the first time since about mid-December, my day was jam packed. The Read More …
The Best Laid Plans… Life has a way of pushing us past our plans. Whether you have planned to list your home and are experiencing personal delays, or your plan to live in a particular area changes suddenly due to personal or professional circumstances, it can be hard to role with the changes. Stress has Read More …