You can't take 45 years of real estate experience out of this girl, even though I'm more or less retired.I still work with former clients to sell their current homes, receive daily listing updates and scroll through the real estate ads in a free local paper while enjoying a bagel sandwich. This o
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10/07/2018
My goal on Wednesday: Prepare for a family gathering at my house over the weekend, including children, grandchildren, brothers, nephews, daughters and sisters-in-law. As bedtime approached, however, I realized that I was thinking more about my Activerain family. Activerain.com is still the scree
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10/10/2016
Have you ever walked out of a listing appointment with doubts? Doubts about the property? Perhaps those doubts are grounded in concerns about the property condition, location, or just general salability. Or maybe the property is outside your normal market and you're uncomfortable about your knowl
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06/16/2016
How to present multiple offers and not risk a Fair Housing complaint. You probably thought I was planning to tell you how I presented six offers on one property yesterday in a 2-hour appointment, and walked away with a signed contract.Well, that too - but the Fair Housing element definitely comes
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04/04/2016
Wow, I can't wait! Who else is going?Thanks for posting this, Margaret Rome. Baltimore Hits The Real Estate Lottery with Re8 Expo Monday January 25th We in Maryland hit the lottery, or so it seems, with Re8 Expo taking place January 25th. We are getting a group together to attend. Ple
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01/12/2016
Five Reasons to consider a resale home in a new construction community A brand new home is the dream of many home buyers, but there may be some nearly new resale homes in the same community. Why would (or should) anyone purchase a previously owned home when brand new is available? There are benef
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01/02/2016
What do real estate agents and gardeners have in common? In Crofton, Maryland, the agents and staff at Long & Foster Real Estate and the members of Crofton Village Garden Club come together to build holiday gift bags for deployed troops. We call this joint effort Operation Christmas.It all began
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10/20/2015
Let's talk about guest rooms... Lots of folks are reclaiming their home offices, these days, as they move from bulky desktop computers to laptops and tablets. Are you?In many cases, the former home office can easily and inexpensively be repurposed as a guest room by using a little imagination and
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09/13/2015
New Activerain member Sam Bruck, of Baltimore, MD, must have seen my AMBASSADOR badge, because he emailed me to ask "How do you go about finding information to blog about?"As I finished typing my reply, it occurred to me " Here's my blog post for today!" Guess what, folks, it really is that easy
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09/05/2015
Why buy in a golf course community if you don't play golf?Have you ever noticed that most golf course communities seem to have a lot of residents with little or no interest in playing golf? In fact, that describes us when we purchased our first home - a townhome in Crofton, Maryland, just blocks
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08/27/2015