Hi Lenn - I really like the 4,243sq.ft. one you did the show on. Wow! I love the living room with sunroom attached...very elegant! BTW, you're getting pretty good with RES!

Linda.  I LOVE RealEstateShows.  If I had more patience, I'd do more.  Thanks.

Lenn- wonderful RES show. SO you don't call them master suites anymore? Or not up there? And it appears to be a galley kitchen, have those made a comeback? I love that sun room! I'll take one of those! 

Love the show - what I could do with a home that size! Great presentation of beautiful homes, Lenn. Of course in our area a new 4400 SF home would be about $1.2 - $1.4M, and on a 15,000 SF lot. :)

Jeff 

Round Hill is such a nice little town, beautiful area!

What kind of camers did you use ? we are still using still photos and have been playing around with video.

Terry.  I'm using a Canon PowerShot A720.  It's easy to use.  I'd like a slightly larger field from time to time, but this works well for real estate.  It's simple minded like me and the lower pixel images are easy to e-mail and open quickly on my web pages.

Cindy.  Indeed it is.  My buyers are thrilled with the town.  They're renting there now while their home is under construction and their daughter will not have to change schools.  Lovely rural town. 

Jeff.  Actually, in closer in areas in Fairfax, Arlington, or Montgomery County in MD, they would be the same.  These homes in McLean would be $2.5 Million easy on a 10,000 square ft. lot.  Round Hill is about 50 miles to DC.  That accounts for the price.  Land is a lot cheaper in Round Hill than in McLean or Bethesda. 

Lenn, looks like a great sub and area. Trees always help a sale too.

what a beautiful area and wow these homes are spectacular

Thesa.  Thanks.  I love selling these homes.  I've got another one closing ontthe 28th and it's just beautiful.

Duane.  Indeed.  This isone of the few communities in the area that have all wooded lots.  Most communities are constructed on what was pastureland.  Few if any trees.  My home is on what was a pine tree farm.  They cleared for the lots, but there are still lots of trees in the area. 

Lenn, when I was developing we tries to keep as many trees as possible. I did purchase a beautiful piece of land that had mature pine trees on the entire parcel. The township made us strip every tree off the property because they wanted the roads to have a minimum pitch. I about cried, plus we ended up looking like the bad guys for clear cutting the land. So I can appreciate what some developers go through when they are accused of raping and pillaging the land, when it's out of their hands. Snce then our area has been implementing tree preservation which is a good thing.

Duane.  Interesting.  MD has a vigorous tree preservation act.  They have to retain 15% of the land mass as wooded and if they build on pasture land, they have to reforest.  They usually do so in the perimeter, and that makes the perimeter lots premium, but that's O.K. 

Most builders liked to clear cut because it makes construction a lot cheaper.  We don't see that much any more.  Most premimum communities have preserved the wooded lot look whereever possible. 

Lenn, thats a good thing that they are forcing reforesting. Builders who like to clear cut and inturn cutting their foot off as the property value drops. Plus the cost of tree removal and disposal of the trunks are very expensive today. No longer can they be buried as many builders did 20 years ago.

Duane.  Bury them??  Shucks, I remember when they just burned them.  That was back in the days of the true "track home". 

Those days are gone in this area.  Builders of higher priced homes seek wooded acreage and builders of moderate priced homes seek farm land with lower infrastructure costs. 

But, in MD, the master plans pretty much determine what can be built and where by density limits and the requirement that land for large developments be matched by land dedicated or donated to preserve.