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If your house, or street, or neighborhood floods during heavy rainfall events in the Lake Shenandoah watershed area, it likely seems that someone must be at fault…
Several buyers have recently asked me about how to determine how much they can and should spend on a home purchase. Those are actually answered differently... CAN -- How…
Do you drive towards JMU from the County, on Port Republic Road? Are you a regular customer at the drive through Starbucks each morning? You'll need to re-route slightly…
What if, on any single family home lot, you could build a duplex -- or even a townhouse! Would that help more affordable housing to be built? Would that upset existing…
Summer is here! Oh wait, summer is gone!? Once that first week of August hits, it seems it's almost time for school to start again. Where did the summer go!?! While I…
Generally speaking, you should list your home sooner rather than later. As shown above, we are likely to see a declining number of buyers signing contracts between August…
Some buyers are close -- so close -- but not quite in a position to be able to make an offer yet on a house. It might be a matter of a few weeks -- or a month or two…
Moving from one house to another is tough work! Even tougher (sometimes) is arranging the timing and logistics to work well for all parties. If you're selling a house in…
Buying a house can be an enormous decision - full of plenty of emotions - anxiety, apprehension, excitement and much more! Buy a house is likely to be one of the largest…
What is a Home Warranty? A home warranty one-year service agreement that covers the repair or replacement of many major home system components and appliances that…
There are a lot of types of basements - and they have very different values to buyers and appraisers. Here are a few examples, to get you thinking... Nine foot ceilings…
In addition to watching how the median sales price changes over time, it can be quite insightful to see how the median price per square foot of sold homes changes over…
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