Everything You Wanted To Know About Real Estate
Do you know your neighborhoods Walk Ability Score? Do you know what a Walk-Ability score is? Why should you care about Walk - Ability? Let’s start at what a “Walk Ability” score is and why it’s so important in today’s Northern Va real estate market. “Walk Ability” scores look at things such as public transportation, grocery store locations, libraries, hospitals, doctor’s offices, dinning and shopping locations as compared to where you live. The more amenities you have near … [Read more...]
What happens when one the World’s best-known customer focused company's is found out to be.. well, not really as customer focused, as we once believed? How’s about finding out that the same company is so overconfident and arrogant about its product that they allowed a flaw to possibly injury or kill their customers? So what can other customer service( i.e. Real Estate Professionals) providers learn from Toyota’s massive FAIL! Customer Service orientated businesses (which is just … [Read more...]
I know shocker right; I’m downing the Washington Post again??? It looks like the Post this time outsourced its latest Real Estate related article to writer Martha White who writes for the Slate Group on a variety of financial matters including Real Estate. Although, I read Slate regularly and find there content refreshing I found Martha’s latest article “Prolonging Home Buyers Tax Credit Will Prolong Recovery” simply uninformed and filled with funny math strung along by the … [Read more...]
As the saying goes” all good things must come to an end”. Well, this is just a reminder that the $8,000 tax credit will be over before you know it. Just to review, according to the IRS you must settle by November 30,2009. Just to be 100% clear, to get the $8,000 you must be at the closing table signing on the dotted line by November 30th. This means you have to do a little backwards math to ensure you get your tax credit. Here is what I would suggest, currently if you are … [Read more...]
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