4721 12th St NE Washington DC.
Bright and Renovated.
Open House Sunday 1-4

Welcome home to this bright, wide end-unit row house with everything on your wish list. Step inside from the covered porch and enjoy the bright and large living room with gleaming wood floors and large windows. The freshly renovated kitchen with new cabinets, granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances is a dream for your inner chef. Out back the large deck just off the kitchen overlooks the spacious, fenced backyard with easy potential for off street parking. Upstairs are three large bedrooms with a multitude of windows and a renovated bath. The tall, open, and finished lower level provides lots of extra space for playroom and/or a home office. All this is just a short

National Cherry Blossom Festival Kicks Off Spring in DC

This year’s National Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off on March 21st marking the first day of spring. The event runs to Sunday, April 12th, 2015. In support of the environment, this year’s festival will emphasize green spaces, trees and gardens. Over the course of the festival’s five weeks, each weekend a different family friendly event takes place to celebrate the long awaited arrival of spring.

The trees origins are actually part of DC’s rich diplomatic history. They were a gift from the Japanese to honor the friendship between the two nations. The first batch of trees arrived in 1910 diseased and had to be destroyed. In 1912, Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo successfully sent a second batch of 3000

Growing Gardeners in Brookland March 28th, 2015, 1-4 pm.
A Greater Brookland Garden Club Event.

Join the Greater Brookland Garden Club on March 28th for a great gardening event at St Anthony Catholic School, Margot Hall, from 1-4 pm.    There will be a presentation for the adults on the best practices for planting your garden, and the main event is for the KIDS!  Bring the kids to paint their very own terra cotta pots, mix soil and plant seeds.  This is a great event for all ages.

Any questions: call Mary Pat Rowen, President of the Gardent club, 202-526-8821

See you there!

Mountain Biking the DC Area: The 3 Sweetest Rides an Hour or Less From DC (And Where to Drink a Beer Afterwards)

In the immortal words of Benjamin Franklin, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”   If dear old Ben had ever been on a mountain bike—not likely, between the belly, the wig and the syphilis—he may have revised that statement to read “Bikes are proof that that God loves us and wants us to be happy and healthy; Beer is proof that God is proud of us.”

Beer and mountain biking have long been appreciated as complementary and harmonious elements.  As anyone who has ever completed a 30-miler with Everest-esque elevation gain can attest to: No amount of Gatorade can take the place of an ice cold IPA to replenish the sweat and

Are you ready?

Thinking about selling your house?   Call us for a free market evaluation of your home and expert advice on what to do now to maximize the sale price of your home in the Spring.

Let's talk.  202-431-4971  We are the local experts.

Parking Wars!

To live in DC is to complain about the snow, and since we are still digging out from the 3 inches we got on Sunday, we figured this would be a good time to talk about parking.

A typical conversation on the local list serve or uber-cool-hastag-coffee-shop-hang-out-place goes something like

They should’ve closed the Schools!
Why didn’t they close they schools?
I can’t believe they closed the schools!
What was the Mayor thinking?
You call this snow?! Where I come from schools don’t close for 13 feet of snow…
Can I ski on the White house lawn?
This is why you should vote for bla bla bla..

Key takeaway here is to stay off the list serves and make your own coffee. But this is the internet and this is a blog and only experts have blogs (insert

Beautiful Brookland is no longer a secret, the Brookland real estate market started 2015 strong and is expected to break records this year.   Washingtonian magazine named Brookland and one of the best neighborhoods to buy a home in 2015.  Demand for Brookland homes is very strong and the supply is very low.  This makes 2015 a great time to sell your house.  Let's take a look as the recent home sale date in Brookland. Above are all the houses that have sold so far this year in Brookland.  Some of the most interesting houses that have sold in Brookland year to date:

1523 Monroe Street NE. $989,000

This was a new construction house built on a vacant lot by Connell & Schmidt Custom Builders
They usually do work on Capitol Hill but are now expanding to

New Restaurants in Brookland
By: Tony Boehm

If you blinked, you might have missed the day when Brookland, DC became a nightlife destination. But don’t worry, you weren’t alone, and you’re not too late to be in the first wave of those discovering all the neighborhood’s new options. Brookland, always a great neighborhood to live in or visit your friend for a BBQ, is now also a spot for entertainment, arts, and dining. Spurred partially by the residential development and Arts Walk near the Brookland/CUA Metro Station, four new restaurants opened up in summer 2014 and your Brookland dining options keep on growing.

Let’s take a look at the new restaurants.

Brookland’s Finest – The first of the bunch to open in June 2014, Brookland’s Finest is nestled

New Years celebrations have come and gone and everyone has gone back to their usual, resolution-breaking lives. Every year scores of people wax poetic about how this is the year they finally get in shape. This is the year they are going to get back to their high school weight (though why anyone would want to go back to anything pertaining to high school is beyond me). But come February, all great expectations are gone.  But rejoyce! February is the perfect time to get a handle on your love handles and get moving. There's no pressure of resolutions, just the pressure of trying to get your jeans to zip because buying a new pair is too expensive. But never fear, as usual, we are here to help. Here's our brilliant idea. Wait for it. Running. Want to know

Well my friends, January has come to a close, tax season has begun, and panic has commenced. I'm not talking about panic over taxes that are almost due.  No, I am talking about the panic that Valentine's day is now only two weeks away. How could this have snuck up on me you wonder? Well it shouldn't have. There's only been dizzy, nausea-inducing displays for weeks of red hearts with crappy chocolate and cheesy cards with hearts and kisses and oddly, the characters from Frozen. Somehow the concept of ice + heart doesn't seem very romantic, but hey. Actually, now that I think about it, hearts aren't very romantic. Have you actually seen a real heart? Google it, it's gross. Part of the problem with Valentine's day is that there are so many freaking options,