DC Real Estate and Area Events: Maryland: Bowie: Covington

       Homebuying programs for home buyers with disabilities.  I need your help-PLEASE. I met a very lovely couple today at my office who wants to buy a PG County house for sale.  They are a first time home buyers who are looking to buy hopefully by Summer of this year. It was a referral from my other brother from another mother. (Blog coming soon).

     Anyway while I was talking to this very lovely couple,the wife asked me if I know of any programs for first time home buyers with disabilities. I did a search on Google and look what I find a blog- A blog by one of our own Mariana Wagner ~ Colorado Springs REALTOR® Home Buyers with Disabilities: Colorado Now Offers a 3% Fixed Interest Loan (Through CHAFA) .  This blog by the way came up first page on Google-YES! Page 1,not page 100 or 1,000,000 -Okay so I am exaggerating a little but you get my point. That is to the nayers who still doubt the Super power of the mighty Active rain. Anyway so I decided to turn my question into a blog.

      Active Rain of course is super great in helping out their fellow bloggers. Like I do all of my clients,I want to make sure that they get 100% superior customer service from me-NOTHING LESS. This couple is so nice that they weren't even mad at me when I accidentally got the days mixed up. I was supposed to meet them in the office on tuesday and I thought it was another day.

      And I know they are serious home buyers because they came back today. I've had people not show up at all and not even tell me or pick up their phone when I call them back. I don't like that at all.  Plus they told me that they don't like paying rent. So if anybody knows any homebuying programs for home buyers with disabilities or have any suggestions,please let me know. I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

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           According to the Bowie Maryland Real Estate Market Report Statistics -zip code 20721,sales are up a whooping 136.36%-That is great news for Bowie Maryland home buyers and of course Bowie Maryland sellers and homeowners. So if you are looking to buy a house in Bowie,MD in zip codes 20715,20716.20720 and 20721,the time to buy is now. 

           Even though it is taking much longer for houses in Bowie,Maryland to sell,there are still many home buyers out there who is looking to move to Bowie in P.G County Maryland

           Twenty-six Bowie MD houses for sale sold last month compared to eleven Bowie Maryland houses for sale that sold this same time last year.

           Average sold price of a Bowie Maryland house for sale was $316,609 compared to this time last year when the average sold price of a Bowie MD house for sale was $326,028 a 2.89% decrease.

           Out of the 26 Bowie Maryland houses for sale that were sold,5 of them used conventional loans,16 were FHA loans,2 were VA loans,1-Assumption and 2 were cash offers.

           And with less than  40 days left,this is a great time for PG County MD home buyers to buy a house now and take advantage of the $8000 home buyer tax credit.

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Looking for a Real Estate Professional that will help you buy and/or sell your next house? Want a "Free Real Estate Market Report" in your area of choice? Register on my website at DC and PG County MD Houses for sale and Real Estate. I can also be reached at my new Active Rain Outside Blog www.GetDCSold.com - "Where we will get it sold-your home that is". Twitter http://twitter.com/DCHomesforsale. Please give me a call at 202-378-0283 (Direct) or 301-560-6700 x1154 (Office) at your earliest convenience. 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. "Buy a home in Northeast DC and PG County MD today" in zip codes 20019,20020,20011,20032,20774,20721

Welcome to the bottom of the housing market. I didn't say this -Experts did. But have we really reached the bottom of the housing market? Well U.S June existing home sales up 3rd straight month - MarketWatch. Last time I believed this happened was in 2005. And most of us who were real estate professionals in 2005 knew what the real estate market was back then. I think that we have reached the bottom of the housing market in some areas but not every real estate market has fully recovered.  

But is this good news for home buyers in DC or Prince George's County MD? Is this good news for home owners in DC and Prince George's County Maryland? DC and Prince George's County MD Sellers? Or is this bad news for home buyers and/or sellers? I think this is great news for both buyers and sellers. I hear a lot from home buyers who are looking to buy a house in DC or Prince George's County Maryland how they are not ready to buy a house yet because they still are waiting for prices of houses for sale to drop.

Maybe with three straight months of housing market sales increase and the housing market finally bottomed out in some areas,this would bring out more home buyers in DC and Prince George's County Maryland. Also home owners who are not sure whether to put their DC or P.G County Maryland house on the market will finally do so now. While we are not out of a recession yet,we are recovering Barack Obama - US Economy Is Recovering. So people who are looking to buy a house in DC and P.G County MD,this is a great time to buy a house if you want the $8000 first time home buyer tax credit for DC and P.G County Md Home buyers  before 12/1/09.

Read this story that inspired this blog Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound (AP) - Yahoo ...

Looking for a Real Estate Agent that will help you buy and/or sell your next house? Want a "Free Real Estate Market Report" in your area of choice? Register on my website at DC Real Estate. I can also be reached at my new Active Rain Outside Blog www.GetDCSold.com -We will get it Sold. Your home that is. Twitter http://twitter.com/DCHomesforsale. Please give me a call at 202-378-0283 (Direct) or 301-560-6700 x1154 (Office) at your earliest convenience. 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. "Buy a Petworth DC home" Zip codes 20019,20020,20011,20774,20721

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Sell this home. Would you?

So you got a call from a home owner who just happened to open your listing packages that you sent to them or left at their front door. You are happy to get the call. An opportunity to sell yourself as a real estate professional to the homeowners and get the listing. And you know that they had their house on the market for over 240 days. ( A very long time )

But what you probably didn't know was how it looks inside. So you go to the listing presentation all dressed professionally with your listing presentation in hand. But when you get there,the house looks like it got hit by Hurricane "What the heck just happened here". Okay! No need to panic. ( But if something starts moving under the clutter and you don't know what the heck it is or can't see it -RUN FOREST! RUN!-Sorry! I'm just kidding )

So you see the house. After going to each room in the house with the home owners and going over your listing presentation with the home owners,you tell them that the only way this house can be sold is with the help of a cleaning service and a home staging company. You tell them that investing in a home staging company will even help boost the value of their home and improve the chances of getting their house sold for more than the list price. But they say no way. They feel that it doesn't make any sense at all to spend more money on a house that they are trying to sell.

So what would you do? Would you still try to take the listing of this house if it looked like this? ( I used these pictures because the house is very cluttered. And of course as we all know,a lot of home owners houses look cluttered and don't know too much about the value of home staging. So I am writing this post to try and convince home owners to invest in the services of a home staging company ) Home stagers please comment on this one.

Looking for a DC Real Estate Agent that will help you buy and/or sell your next house? Want a "Free Real Estate Market Report" in your area of choice? Register on my website at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com. I can also be reached at my new Active Rain Outside Blog www.GetDCSold.com  or Twitter http://twitter.com/DCHomesforsale. Please give me a call at 202-378-0283 (Direct) or 301-560-6700 x1154 (Office) at your earliest convenience. 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.  "Buy home Washington DC Zip codes 20019,20020,20721,20774,20011

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