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2007
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There was a time when you were comfortable in a hardware store since you felt like a neighbor and you probably were. Small town hardware srores, similar to the local drug store with soda fountain, have all but disappeared from the American landscape. Those days are not gone completely in Moun...
12/31/2007
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That question has been in the forefront for just about every client of ours relocating to Northern Virginia. There have been a few who wanted to return to previous neighborhoods or knew where they wanted to live.We live in a transient society and usually are willing to relocate our family to ...
12/31/2007
Recently, a RE/MAX agent in Colorado contacted me for assistance with a referral. Her sister and brother-in-law were both Marines renting a home in Prince William County. They had decided to purchase, but were uncertain as to the best location - one was stationed at Fort Belvoir - the other w...
12/31/2007
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Rippon Lodge is thought to be the oldest colonial home in Prince William County and quite possibly in Northern Virginia. It was built about 1725 by Richard Black-burn of Ripon, an old cathedral town in England. Colonel Thomas Blackburn, his son, was a contemporary and fought with George Washi...
12/30/2007
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My first website was launched in 1997. It was obvious to my husband and I that internet marketing of real estate was the most exciting innovation we had seen in our long real estate career. Of course, that website has been updated many times since then and is one of the most comprehensive and i...
12/30/2007
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I pick up trash on Rolling Road in SpringfieldAs a member of the Rotary Club of West Springfield, I am committed to community service. Four times a year you will see club members on the stretch of Rolling Road between the Fairfax County Parkway and Old Keene Mill Road wearing orange vests pickin...
12/30/2007
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PROPER PRIOR PLANNING PREVENTS POOR PERFORMANCEThat may seem like a trite statement, but it is one my husband and I apply to every planning session about business activity.When we are selected to market a property we develop an Action Plan TAILORED to the property. Why? Each property is as uni...
12/27/2007
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This store in the Glendale Plaza on Dale Boulevard has survived the arrival of The Home Depot and Lowe's even though they are less than 10 minutes away.It is a hardware store of the type you remember before the hardware super stores came to town. When you go into Pitkins and say, "How do I ----...
12/27/2007
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Relax, I'm talking about geese, not people.There was a time when each Fall I would enjoy watching the flocks honk and wave on their way to Florida. The scene would be reversed as they flew home to Canada in the Spring.However, in recent years they have decided to make Northern Virginia home. Th...
12/27/2007
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For years people have been told, "The three most important things in real estate are location, location, location"If you live in the home at the right that may well still be true, but it will not be true for the rest of us in 2008.For 2008, the three most important things in real estate are "Pri...
12/27/2007