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Last week was pretty busy, but not too busy to catch up with some of my favorite bloggers on Active Rain. Here are some I especially enjoyed:Paula McDonald: An Eclipse of a Lifetime Paula was lucky enough to be right in the path, and her account of watching it with her family was, well, not quit...
04/14/2024
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Here in Washington, DC, the cherry trees get a lot of attention, with people coming from around the country each spring to see them lined up along the National Mall. But my favorites are our beautiful redbuds, which bloomed a little late this year. This afternoon, Picco and I saw this one around ...
04/10/2024
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This afternoon, I shared my mushroom story on the Tuesday Zoom call, and spoiler alert. The story was a little scary, but it has a great ending. Um, I got lucky!In June of last year, I was diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer. It's usually pretty nasty, and the prognosis is not exactly optimi...
04/09/2024
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This was my first full week of posting, reading and commenting on blogs on ActiveRain in a few years. And it was interesting trying to find ten posts that were reasonably well written and interesting and appeared likely to have actually written by the blogger on the by-line. While I really wanted...
04/07/2024
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On June 10, 2007, I came across ActiveRain doing a google search, joined and wrote my first post, and by late 2018, I found my way to the coveted Number 1 spot on the Leaderboard. The addiction was so strong that my broker had to step in with an intervention. So I went cold turkey, checking in ev...
04/06/2024
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Here in Washington, DC, the real estate market is a little goofy, leaving buyers sitting on the fence wondering what to do. There are far fewer people putting their homes on the market. But homes that are for sale seem to be taking longer to sell, and while there are some bidding wars, they are f...
04/05/2024
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Let me introduce Picco, my new significant other. He's a shaggy mixed breed - his mom was a purebred beagle, and dad? Well, I think he was a froo froo mystery man.He was an immediate real estate asset. When I needed a name, I had a "Name the Puppy" contest on Monday Morning Coffee, my weekly pos...
04/04/2024
In all of my years in real estate, I've never ever met a seller who over-estimated the time it would take to whip a house or condo into showing condition and then pack up and move. When it's time for your next move, you could quickly understand why people say, "Move is a four-letter word!" Does ...
04/03/2024
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Over the weekend a property came on the market that many of the neighbors have regarded as the local Addams Family house. While I know most of my neighbors, this seller was sort of a mystery man – a recluse. In over 30 years I’ve lived in the next block, I’ve never seen anyone go in out out of ...
03/29/2024
Here in Washington, DC, we are seeing a shortage of listings like never before. Still, I know a lot of people who want to or ought to move, and most of them are my demographic - baby boomers living in houses that are way too big and needy to meet their current needs. There is, however, one big st...
10/17/2023