All about life and real estate in Loudoun County, Virginia
Last week I wrote about buying in a golf course community and it gave me the idea to highlight each community individually. With my experience from a golfer's perspective, here's my first shot (maybe pun intended?). Lansdowne Resort opened in 1991 with 18 holes of championship golf designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. The main attraction at … [Read more...]
Every year I write a melancholy post looking forward and back. However, I haven't posted here on Musings since I took the job at NAR back in July. It's an odd place to be, this blog being my labor of love, while also inextricably tied to the LoCoMusings team real estate business. It feels a bit odd for me to write here, now. But it still feels … [Read more...]
Some days, it's hard to believe that it's been eight years since I got started in real estate. Or six years since I first started blogging. LocoMusings came into being in mid-December, 2007, and has been a focal point of my life and business ever since. As many of you know, I started out as a journalist who loved houses, and ended up in real … [Read more...]
Happy summer!! Cheers, Heather … [Read more...]
Soooooo, it looks a little different around here, eh? It was time. The last full redesign of LoCoMusings happened on September 25, 2008. That's centuries ago in internet years. :) And everything up to this point was done by little old me. It was time to bring in the professionals. Hopefully, you'll enjoy the new design, which was … [Read more...]
I've been thinking quite a bit lately about how the public views real estate professionals as a whole, and there are a few things that I want you to know about me and the way that I conduct my business. I am full time Realtor, and have worked this as my only source of income since 2004. This is my career, and I see myself as a consultant, … [Read more...]
This week, I did an interview with the folks at Century 21's corporate office for their blog, which was a lot of fun. They had asked me about where my love of real estate came from, and the more I thought about it, I kept coming back to the house on Elizabeth Street in Salisbury. The house I grew up in. It's no surprise, really, that I ended … [Read more...]
If you follow along with any of my social media accounts, you might have noticed some mention of New York City....I am in the Big Apple this week for the Inman Connect conference, which is put on by one of the most respected sources of real estate news, Inman News. I think it's massively important for me to stay on top of the trends within the … [Read more...]
(photo credit: Cayusa) I was having a conversation with some buyer clients of mine recently about new construction, and builder contracts. They were surprised to learn that I could represent them as their buyer's agent on a contract to build a new construction home. Indeed, they didn't know, and hadn't considered it before I mentioned it. … [Read more...]
Anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I'm an optimist, a glass is half full kind of girl. Perhaps it stems from having New Year's Day as my birthday...each new year in my life corresponds with a new year on the calendar, full of promise and hope. I don't dread my birthdays at all. I look at them as an opportunity to start fresh. … [Read more...]
