Chantilly, VA

If you are relocating to the Northern Virginia area, or making a local move, you may be looking for a moving company.

In this series on how to hire a good moving company we discuss what informed home sellers and buyers should know before they start looking for a moving service.

Choices have consequences, for better or worse. Consumers not doing "due diligence" in making this decision are taking a risk with their possessions and their money.

In this second episode of the series, we discuss how you can go about getting the information you need to locate and hire a good moving service. If you don't already have a good company, where do you start?   What about insurance and bonding?  How much coverage should you get?  Should you get full replacement cost?  What is the single most important thing you should know before signing the contract?

Chantilly and Northern Virginia area home owners who see a move upcoming, as well as anyone moving into the Northern Virginia area, will benefit from the honest and straightforward insights of someone who is working inside the moving industry.

Don't miss the entire series!

[The Kathy O’Neal Team serves home buyers and sellers in Northern Virginia, with special focus on Chantilly, Centreville, and the communities of the Western Fairfax region.]

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Selling a home to anyone is a very weighted issue. There a lot of things to consider. school, activities, leisure, worship, shopping, transportation and social. When you have more than one person needing or relocating spouses is never an easy task especially if both spouses work, and need to be in different parts of town. Lets take an example of a couple looking at a home in Oakton VA. One spouse works in the McLean VA area and the other works in Chantilly VA. The distance is approximatley 17 miles.

For this example we will use Oakton VA as an area of interest to buy a home. The point that sells the home or area is that Oakton VA more or less the epicenter. Oakton is equidistant to both McLean VA and Chantilly. If you can demonstrate that each spouse will have a similar and reasonable commute, you are one step closer to making a sale. On more than one occasion I have used this map method to sell homes, and it works. It does not matter if you use Google, Mapquest or BING to plot the distance from the selected home to each work destination. What matters is that the map moves your client from an abstract concept to something tangible that can be easily grasped and accepted.

EPISODE 23 - REAL ESTATE IN CHANTILLY

How do you best care for your pet dog while selling your home?

If you see the sale of your Chantilly or Northern Virginia area home upcoming, and you have wondered about how to manage the process of caring for your pet dog while doing the best job of getting your home sold well, here are some insights from professional dog trainer and Certified Grand Master Kelley Renshaw, owner of Bark Busters, a Chantilly area dog training service.

We continue the discussion on preventing and solving dog behavioral problems.  What is the role of physical exercise for your dog?  Can you give your pet too much of a good thing?  What about mental stimulation?  Is there a dog toy that may work wonders in giving your dog the mental stimulation needed for their behavioral health?

We wrap-up by talking about the "red flags" that indicate you may need professional help.  And..what about your dog's basic needs?  Exactly what are they?  Will providing for these basic needs prevent most problems?  We get Kelley's insights in the final episode in the series.

If you are a Chantilly area home buyer, home seller, or home owner who is now or will be a dog owner, don't miss the entire set of episodes.

[The Kathy O’Neal Team serves home buyers and sellers in Northern Virginia, with special focus on Chantilly, Centreville, and the communities of the Western Fairfax region.]

Chantilly VA homes Sales for September 2009 were just release by MRIS our MLS system on October 10th, 2009 for single family detached Chantilly homes for salelocated in Loudoun County VA 20152. There were 15 sales for the month of September 2009. Below is a chart I generated from our MRIS to show you the price ranges of the homes sold. The lower range had fewer sales because in single family homes available, and the higher price ranges had fewer sales because there were fewer buyers.

The most recent MRIS statistics were just released for or MLS on October 10Th, and I thought I would share Chantilly VA 20152 statistics for Loudoun County VA. Yes sales are up, but prices are way downThe average sales price in September 2009 not including any sellers concessions is now at $423,935 that is down 16.58% from the same time frame in 2008 where the average sold price stood at $508,163. The average list price for home has also dropped. So the good news is that more homes are being sold, but the bad news is at much lower prices than last year.

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