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Crofton Home Rental Market

The Crofton MD home rental market has always been robust and continues to be in this challenging real estate market. Crofton Maryland is a great location to live because of it’s proximity to Washington DC, Baltimore and Annapolis.
Right now if you’re looking to rent, Crofton has 29 units available ranging in price from $1,295 [...]

Crofton MD Real Estate Activity

Despite all the bad news you read and hear in the press, homes are selling in Crofton.  While they are staying on the market longer than during the sizzling years, settlements do occur every day.
June had 38 Crofton Homes go to settlement.
The least expensive was a 1 BR, 1 BA on Whitestone Court which went [...]

Sad sign of the times

Yesterday I was driving to Giant when I drove past a cluster of furniture sitting on the curb across from CVS. 
This wasn’t stuff being put out for trash pick-up or a yard sale.  Sadly, it’s someone’s life being severly affected in a negative way.  Someone’s Crofton home or Crofton rental was being evicted.  How distressing [...]

Crofton Home Inventory

Every seller wants to know how long their house is going to be on the market. That is an absolutely fair question and one, unfortunately, that no agent can really answer. So what do you do? I would suggest that you can at least get some idea by looking at data. [...]

Fraud

Don’t ever underestimate the genius of criminals trying to get money from you without working. I heard about a new type of fraud going on today that may be coming to the Annapolis MD real estate area.
It goes something like this. Criminals search through recent public domain information regarding house sales. They [...]

Your House Stinks

I would never be so blunt as to tell one of my sellers that, but sometimes an agent just has to bite their tongue and try an end around.
When you’re in a house day in and day out sometimes you just don’t smell what others can smell. Pet odors, smoking and ethnic cooking are [...]

Selling Your Vacant Home

Because of the excess inventory in the Annapolis MD real estate market, agents are showing a lot of vacant homes to potential buyers.
Vacant homes can either look spectacular or they could look a bit depressing.  Once you take down all your pictures and remove all your furniture you would be surprised at all of the [...]

FSBO Frustration

An owner of a Crofton home for sale stopped in the office this weekend and was complaining to me that agents weren’t showing her home and how unfair that was.  She wasn’t using a REALTOR® but instead was trying to sell it herself.  I welcomed her to the sometimes frustrating world of real estate.  She thought all she [...]

Priced Ahead of the Market

Every once in a while we see a new listing come into the market where the pricing just doesn’t make any sense…especially in the Annapolis MD Real Estate market as it is in 2008.
A new Crofton home for sale appeared in the MLS a couple of days ago and by most pricing standards it sure [...]

Short Sale, Short Temper

 
The Annapolis MD Real Estate market is saturated with short sales today compared to just a few years ago.  Loosely defined, a short sale is a situation where the homeowner owes more on the property than it is worth and is in the process of selling the home.  The short sale scenario is that the [...]