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2012
Rentals in Crofton, MD, and the surrounding area are robust, and very competitive. Owners of rental properties pretty much control the market, and if you want to rent here, you need to follow their rules.One of the “rules” that owners employ is the pet policy when renting their unit. Here, we hav...
05/30/2012
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Ouch! The first thing I do when I get this question from a buyer client is to sit down for a quick heart to heart. This isn’t the mindset I’m looking for when you just submit an offer, or even worse, we now have a contract. After that, I actually answer their question.At the offer stage, it’s pre...
05/30/2012
First off, it’s your home and no, you don’t have to leave the house during home inspection. That being said, let’s look at what the contract of sale says about that: Paragraph 4 of the Maryland Contract of Sale Home Inspection addendum… [exerpt] Buyer and Seller shall have the right to be present...
05/29/2012
Buyers are smart in general, and usually have some pretty specific real estate related questions for their agent. Considering what has happened to the market in recent years, one of the questions I get from buyers is, “will the house hold it’s value?”Talk about a difficult and dangerous question ...
05/28/2012
Our freedom, and the freedom of so many others around the world, depend on so many who never returned. Admiral Nimitiz's quote applies to all our fallen. The graves stretch as far as the eye can see at Arlington National Cemetary. Each Gold Star on this wall at the WW II Memorial represents 1,000...
05/28/2012
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Annapolis residents and guests to the area crowded the streets around State Circle and Main Street for the 2012 Memorial Day Parade. It's a good thing the parade started at 10 AM, as the weather got hotter and more humid as the morning progressed. We're on our way to a 90 degree day here in the A...
05/28/2012
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Where did all the Bowie, MD foreclosures go? Looking at the MLS data for foreclosures for sale in Bowie, MD, it looks like there are only thirteen available. Considering that about a third of all the homes sold in Bowie last year were foreclosures, the number of thirteen seems low. With 228 tot...
05/27/2012
The date for Anne Arundel County to eliminate the second trash day is fast approaching. Earlier in the year, the County decided to go to once a week trash pickup, beginning on June 4, 2012. Starting on that day, trash will be picked up on only one day per week, the day that your recycling/trash ...
05/26/2012
I thought about this two days ago when I was having trouble with one of my computers. No worries about data loss since I have the data backed up in two different ways. I was too busy to actually troubleshoot it myself, so I left some messages for in house repair people. I left the messages around...
05/25/2012
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In the dozen or so years that I’ve been in real estate, I’ve managed to stay ahead of the technological curve. Coming from a previous high tech telephone industry, it wasn’t that hard. As I think back to all the devices I use today, only one really stands apart as being indispensable.It’s not the...
05/25/2012
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Richard Iarossi
Crofton MD Real Estate, Annapolis MD Real Estate