Category Archives: Real Estate
Selling Your Childhood Home
Buying a house always feels like a win, but selling one is bittersweet. In a perfect world, you could establish new homes and keep the old. The fact that you grew up in a house that your parents owned is part of what gave you financial stability that enabled you to pursue your studies,… Read More »
What’s New in Rockville’s Landlord-Tenant Code?
Old folks are nostalgic for the days before algorithms interfered in our daily decisions. If we wanted to decide what to watch on TV, we had to flip channels with the remote control or physically read the TV Guide that was delivered to our house once per week. If we wanted to listen to… Read More »
Beware of Informal Real Estate Transactions After the Estate Settles
Family togetherness means not keeping count of who pays for what. In the best moments, this means that family members can ask each other for help without feeling embarrassed or feeling that the response will be a balance sheet that presents the requesting family member in a negative light. In the worst moments, it… Read More »
New Real Estate Laws in Maryland 2026
Deciding to buy real estate investment properties depends on some factors that change so quickly that making predictions about them is little more than speculation. There is even more uncertainty if you are planning to build a real estate development with multiple housing units or commercial spaces. Besides basing your decisions on things that… Read More »
Return That Security Deposit
One of the hardest parts of operating any small business, including being a residential landlord, is chasing people around for individual payments. For landlords, maintenance of your rental units is also a major source of stress. After a tenant moves out, you want to get the apartment looking move-in ready as quickly as possible,… Read More »
How Can Landlords Accommodate Cost-Burdened Student Loan Borrowers
In your worst moments, it is easy to feel like D.C. is turning into a ghost town. The nation’s capital was never famous for its nightlife, except perhaps in certain parts of Adams Morgan where no one above the age of 40 dared to tread. The best restaurants closed at dinner time, and some… Read More »
Common Types of Real Estate Disputes
Despite what all the aspirational content about entrepreneurship will tell you, there is no industry where your entrepreneurship amounts to passive income. Buying real estate properties and renting them out sounds like easy money until you do it. The everyday costs of maintaining the properties, or of outsourcing the work of maintaining them, are… Read More »
Can You Negotiate Your Way to an Affordable Home Purchase?
After years of unaffordable everything, we are starting to see a few rays of sunshine for buyers in the housing market. Yes, the prices of groceries are still astronomical, and wages are stagnant, as the few people who still have jobs are afraid to ask for raises or apply to new positions. Many consumer… Read More »
Appealing Your Property Taxes
It is not just your imagination that all your bills have gotten more expensive in the past few years. As lonely as you might have been when you were working remotely during the pandemic, it was the last time you saw your debt balances get lower and your savings account balances grow bigger. For… Read More »
6 Home Features That Give Buyers the Ick
Everyone who has successfully bought a house or condo unit knows that getting emotionally attached to the property that might become your new home before you have closed on the purchase is a recipe for disappointment. Real estate purchase deals can fall apart for a variety of reasons. Buyers or sellers can inexplicably get… Read More »
