Category: Home Buying Tips

My friend Marie has a Jack Russell Terrier named Boomer. I featured him in a kayak in my blog post on Dog Friendly Howard County . If you ask Marie about Boomer she’ll tell you…

There is a new shop, in Historic Ellicott City, ready and waiting to help you get your yoga on. Gogo Guru, located on Main Street between the old post office and Tersiguel’s specializes in yoga…

English Ivy (Hedera helix) is beautiful especially when it trails creating a covering like in flower beds.  It has been one of the favorite ground covers of gardeners and is a erosion preventer because it…

“There is nothing more important in the sale of a home than the buyer’s financial ability to purchase.”  I say this over and over again when I train new agents or upon reviewing offers with…

Looking for that little venture out with the kids before schools starts?  Need a new place to walk the dog or test out the bike?  Consider the Trolley Trail from Baltimore to Ellicott City.  It’s…

When buying a car or an expensive appliance many people purchase an extended warranty.  With the initial cost and potential cost of repairs it makes sense to protect ourselves against unforeseen expenses.  But when purchasing…

January is “National Radon Month”, so why am I writing about radon in July when it’s 90+ degrees outside, and we’ve had a lot of rain the past few weeks (and more to come)?  Well,…

Of all the historic sites in Howard County one of the most intriguing is the Patapsco Female Institute. The Greek revival mansion was built in 1837 as a girls finishing school. Union troops camped near…

We have many number that are important in out lives, however of all the numbers we should know, the most elusive and misunderstood is the credit score or FICO.  FICO is an acronym for Fair…

The word is out…..Mary­land passed a law in 2012 requiring each County to develop a pro­gram to bet­ter man­age stormwa­ter and to cre­ate a fund to pay for those projects. In Jan­u­ary, 2013 HoCo came…