You and I know you don't have to look deep to find evidence to support a feeling, and I certainly did not look below the evidence at my fingertips. The evidence is slim, but change doesn't always begin with a big bang, or end with an eruption. Cracks and fissures are the common indicators that something is happening below the surface. I'll tell you why I think this slight evidence may be a first sign.
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As of August 16, 2025, I am 66 years and 4 months old, just a few months shy of the life expectancy for males born in the United States in 1959. If I were a furnace, with winter fast approaching, my o...
Some things never change. No matter how hot the market is in the spring, some homes will linger longer than you might expect. And, when a great house is unsold, you can be sure someone who's lost out ...
Everyone knows that the big shining object in a real estate offer to purchase is the price. Buyers and their agents use the price to blind home sellers to the trouble hiding in the details. If you let...
There is no safe level of radon exposure. Radon is a naturally occurring gas that is harmful to human health and linked to lung cancer. Forensic Application Consulting published a detailed report to s...
Nothing disrupts consumer sentiment like uncertainty. And when it comes to real estate, nothing changes a market like unemployment. Right now, home owners in the Washington D.C. area who are uncertain...
When we settle into our homes, we select paint colors because we like how they reflect the family members' personalities in that home, or maybe it's a current trend.You move into a house and make it y...
Last year, the multi-billion dollar commission lawsuit settlement the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) accepted triggered great expectations of commission relief for home sellers. That was until...
Wednesday is the best day to make your home active on the multiple listing service (MLS). When your listing goes live on the MLS, the data is sent to buyers using a listing-search notification program...
There was a day when buyers controlled the market, and sellers agreed to concessions and negotiated on price. I remember those days when the market started to change. In the summer of 2016, we saw mor...