DC Real Estate and Area Events: July 2008

Online local business referral directory. Do you have one?

Before I say much,I want to first thank Mr.Dennis Volz for sharing this brilliant idea with us here on Active Rain. He wrote a post http://activerain.com/blogsview/491606/FREE-ONLINE-Business-Directory. His post will also show you how he set up his online local business referral directory. I am sharing this with you in case some of you missed it or want to get some suggestions on how to form your online local business referral directory.

This is my free online local business referral directory. I just started working on mine yesterday. http://buyahomeinwashingtondc.blogspot.com. I have sent out invitations to local business companies or anyone who wants to advertise on my website for free. I have also sent it to many of many prospects. It is a good way to have an excuse to send them something. You never know. They might know someone who owns a business who might want to advertise for free on my website. Here are some good reasons to have a online local business referral directory.

• Geographic Targetic-The ability to target customers online has improved dramatically.
• Great communications tool-Its so cheap to advertise on some websites now. How much do the great people at Active Rain charge us to write posts here? NOTHING. Since they are such great people I wonder if they can give all of us free cities to advertise on Localism come July 31st? That would be a great idea.
• Great way to make connections-We all know that Internet is the best marketing tool. It is fast and cheap also. (Well not all of them are cheap. But you know what I am talking about.
• Serve your local customers-We all know close to 80% of home buyers start their search online.
• Your customers are online-Did you know that 48 million people went online last year looking for content?
• So are your competitors-It is said that 78% of small business are online and 50% of them will continue to maintain active online.
• ITS FREE - Just in case I forgot to mention it.

Some people I hear make newsletters and have local companies pay to advertise for space on their newsletter (Clever idea).

We all know that everybody knows somebody who wants to buy a house or is talking about buying a house. But if that's the case,how come some ready,willing and able buyers and motivated sellers are hard to find? Having a online local business referral directory can help you find those home buyers and sellers.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at my websites www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very great one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

The Rolling Exhibition                                                                                                                  

May 29-July 20                                                                                                                         

10am -10pm daily

The John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts                                                                        

2700 F Street NW                                                                                                             

Washington DC                                                                                                                          

202-467-4600                                                                                                                 

Price: Free

Legless photographer Kevin Connolly traveled through 15 countries on a skateboard taking pictures of people staring at him. The 22 year old Montana native was born without legs and gets around on a skateboard,propelling himself with his hands.

Doctors told him its a sporadic birth defect. Connolly says that people just don't know why he was born without legs. In 2007 Connolly traveled all around the world and took 32,728 pictures of people staring at him. Fifteen of his photos are on display in the Kennedy's Hall of States.

Stephaine Moore,the organization's director of visual arts heard about connolly after he was featured on ABC's 20/20 in January. The exhibition debuted last fall in Bozeman.

The Lion King                                                                                                                            

June 26-Sept 24                                                                                                                   

7:30pm Tuesdays -Fridays                                                                                                     

1:30pm and 7:30pm Saturdays and Sundays                                                                             

1:30pm Wednesday August 20th

Prices: $25-$135

The Lion King is finally in Washington DC. Are tickets still available? I don't think so. But you can call to find out. The Lion King will also be playing at The John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy and/or sell a home in Washington DC".

Guess who is coming to speak at Reiters Scientific and Professional Books on July 22nd? Andrew Yarrow.

Andrew Yarrow -Washington Director and Vice President of Public Agenda and professor of US History at American University is coming to Reiters Scientific and Professional Books on July 22nd at 6:30pm to talk and sign copies of his book "Forgive us our Debts:The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility". This book is about the causes,consequences and cures for America's national debt.

Reiters Scientific and Professional Books is located at 1990 K St NW Washington DC 20006. For more information about this event,please call Reiters books at 202-223-3327 or 1-800-537-4314. Also,visit their website at www.reiters.com to browse by subject selection of books on economics,finance,engineering,medicine,political science,Law and more. (Blog on Reiters Scientific Books is coming soon.)

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at 202-378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online on my websites www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy and sell a home in Washington DC"

Are you still looking to buy a house in Washington DC? This is still a great time to buy. Interest rates are still near historic lows. Another reason why this is a great time to buy is that there is still a big inventory of houses to choose from.

As of July 16,2008 there are 3,847 houses for sale in Washington DC. More than 250 homes for sale are priced in the price range $250,000-$299,999,over 280 homes for sale are priced $300,000-$399,999,more than 460 homes for sale are priced $400,000-$499,000,more than 680 homes for sale are priced over $500,000It is still a buyers market. Because of the large inventory,you're in a better position to negotiate a price discount with the seller than you will be when the real estate market begins to strengthen.

To receive your free list of "Houses of sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154(Office). I can also be reached online on my websites www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan - Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC".

Want to purchase a condo/home for the price of what you are currently paying for rent? Then you definitely want to check out Savoy Court

Savoy Court is well located East of the River in a quiet,wooded neighborhood just 10 minutes from downtown and across from the new Southeast Federal Center and the new home of the Washington Nationals. There is a Giant Food on South Capitol St and Southern Ave. There is another Giant Food in the Shops at Park Village. And there is a Safeway Food store on Good Hope Road and 25th St. Savoy Court offers direct access to 1-295/Anacostia Freeway and SW/SE Freeway,and is just minutes from Boiling Air Force Base and the Capital Beltway. Two metro stations ( Congress Heights and Anacostia ) are nearby.

There are currently 22 homes available. Out of the 22 units available,5 of them are two bedrooms with one bath and the rest are one bedroom with one bath. Each home consists of

• New wood floors.
• Carpeting in bedrooms.
• Stainless steel kitchen appliances.
• Exercise room.
• Rooftop deck.
• Satellite-ready with master dish.
• Electronic access control.
• Prewired for Internet,Cable and Satellite TV.
• New central air conditioning and heating.
• Ceramic tile floors and walls in bathrooms.
• 27 stacked washer and dryer
• and more.............

Prices start from $185,900. Don't believe me? Sounds too good to be true? Give me a call at your earliest convenience so that we can make an appointment to go view them together so that you can see it yourself. Come discover your beautiful new home of Savoy Court.  

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

Washington, D.C Housing Market Report Statistics from June 1,2008 to June 30,2008

Total of the units that were sold were 550.

259 of the units sold:   1-30 days.

94 of the units sold:     31-60 days.

66 of the units sold:     61-90 days

31 of  the units sold:    91-120 days.

100 of the units sold:   Over 120 days.

49 of the houses sold were two or less bedrooms. 142 of the houses sold were three bedrooms. And 97 of the houses sold were four bedrooms. There were also 262 Condo,Coop and Ground Rent.

Out of the 3524 Active listings,1898 are residential and 1626 are Condo,coop and Ground Rent.

Type of financing used were:

Conventional:    365

FHA:                  58

VA:                     1

Assumption:       41

Cash:                70

Owner Finance:    0

All Other:           15

Unreported:        0

Total                 550

Total Sold Dollar Volume is down 15.04% from a year ago. Average sold price of a house is $571,055 up 5.66% from a year ago. Median sold price is $425,000 up 2.41% from a year ago. Total units sold 550 compared to 684 last year a 19.59% drop. Average days of a house on the market is 74 days compared to 63 days last year a 17.46% drop. Average list price of house sold was $602,328 compared to $557,271 last year which is a 8.09% drop. And Average sale price as a percentage of avg list price:94.81% compared to 96.99% last year. 

Total number of new listings taken for the month were 997. Total number of properties market Contract were 402. Total number of properties market contingent for the month were 175. And total number of new pendings ( CONTRACTS + CONTINGENTS) were 577.

Source: Metropolitan Regional Information Systems,Inc. -MLS Resale Data

Copyright 2008-Information deemed reliable,but is not guaranteed.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached on my websites www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan - Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy and sell a home in Washington DC"

I have now passed 75,000 points on Active Rain with this post. I seem like yesterday when I passed the 50,000 mark. Now I am over 75,000. But if I write more blogs on Active Rain,I would've been passed this mark. Anyway,I am happy. I want to thank you all for helping me pass the 75,000. I could not have done it without you guys. You know who you are- I am not naming no names this time-SORRY. 

You will think by now I would have this blogging thing down pat-WRONG. Think again. Unlike 96,402 of the members here on Active Rain,I am the only one who has yet to receive a lead here yet-LOL. But I know it is going to come. I have just have to be patient. I forward to that day too. And I look forward to reading and responding to more blogs from you all here on Active Rain. And please continue to support me just like I am supporting you. Thank you all very much. Happy Blogging!

To receive your free list of "houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

Anyone who is looking for another free site to advertise any of their listings? You definitely want to check out www.newcondosonline.com/ I ran across this site this morning. You can set up a free profile. I just finished filling out my free profile on this site. Hopefully it will help me with my search engine ranking. So I decided that I share it with everyone who doesn't know about this site yet. Hope this site helps you gain more home buyers and sellers.

If you want to receive a free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase and/or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

When I first heard about this story,I couldn't believe it. But this is absolutely true. So I thought I share this story with everyone else here. An 70 year old woman Omkari Panwar in India became the world's oldest mom after giving birth to twins. The frail pensioner has two daughters and five grandchildrens. Her husband Charan Singh Panwar 77 mortgaged his land,sold his buffalos,spent his life savings and took out an loan for this treatment.

But why would a 70 year old woman and a 77 man want another child? The man said that he wanted a son. They prayed to God and God granted them their wish. The man said that he can die a happy man and proud father. The twins were born premature and weighing two pounds each are said to be healthly and expected to survive. Omkari Panwar does not have a birth certificate so he doesn't really know her day of birth. So she uses the India Independence day of 1947 to guess her age. She doesn't care that she is the oldest mother to give birth. All she is concerned about is being able to take care of her kids.

This is an amazing story. Just when you thought you have heard or seen it all.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan-Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

My brother Olakunle "Jay-K" Folayan is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world. He always willing to help me anyway he can UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE. He is one of the few people that I can honestly say is willing to do anything he can to help me in succeeding. He received his Masters Degree with honors from Devry University about three weeks ago. He graduated with a 3.8 GPA ( Very impressive ).


I am so proud of him and very happy for him. I taught my brother everything that he knows. ( I like to think I did ). He is now in the Navy now. He hated it at first (BOOTCAMP). But after being in the Navy for seven years now,he likes it. He has made friends and met people that he would've never met if he didn't join the Navy. And also just brought his first home last month. His home is not too far from the Naval Base in Lexington Park,Maryland. Lexington Park,Maryland is a nice neighborhood. My brother likes the neighborhood. Now if I can make time to have a house warming for him. This should be done hopefully sometime this month. He has a hectic schedule.

He is one of the sharpest,fun-loving,smartest and energetic guys that I know. I am so thankful to God for all the blessings that he has bestowed upon him. God has brought him from a mightly long way. So here are some pictures that your truly took at my brother's graduation-Watch out Hollywood. Im coming-2010. Congratulations again brother. Much success to you brother. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.

                                                 This is yours truly with my brother and our lovely mother.

                                This is my cousins Big Tim-Long and Foster Realtor and his young brother Little tim with my mom and my brother

                                     My mom's friend Ms.Joseline with my mom,brother and two cousins.

                              My mom's friend Ms.Joseline and my mom

                         Yours truly and my twin brother. Okay! We are not actually twins. But Danny Devito and Arnold Scwartgenerger got away with it in a movie and they aren't even brothers yet alone twin.

                           Mrs.Joseline,my brother and yours truly.                     

                           Does this pic look familiar?

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington,DC"please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. Buy a home in Washington DC