Joe Frangipane

Thank you for viewing my web site. I hope you are thinking aboutbuying or selling real estate in the Metropolitan Virginia and Maryland areas. Please don't believe some of the national news articles indicating that the local conditions for buying and selling real estate are not good. Please consider the old adage that "all real estate is local", and you can find out about local real estate market conditions by visiting my website and reading my biweekly Newsletters.

Once you see my website features you will see that it will meet all of your real estate needs.You will have the necessary informationto help in your decision making process for either a home or investment property purchase or sale in the Northern Virginia and/or the Maryland suburbs. Let me provide you a tour of my how it will provide you everything you need to meet your real estate needs.

Site Features:

There are many important features of the site, let me highlight the more important aspects.Across the top of the site arePagesthat you can obtain additional information on buying, selling, including the current market conditions.

1. Buying

The first page across the top for those considering on Buying real estate.If you are new to the area and/or if this is your first home purchase, you will considerable background information explaining how to navigate through the various steps to the home purchase process. You can access aHome Purchase Guide that you can retain as you with with me and go through the various steps.

First, I want to assure you that I am a Full Service and ExperiencedREALTOR,that works with both potential home buyers and investors.I would like to summarize why you shouldselect me tohelp meet your housing needs.I offer a personalized, customer-oriented approach when working with clients. I have an excellent knowledge of the local real estate market after having spent over 30 years of buying and selling properties in this area.As a CPA and former government manager of an audit group, I have professional expertise to deal with the many facets of home buying and selling, including the important art of negotiating the best possible deal for my clients. I have been recognized by the National Association of Realtors as one of the top realtors in the USA. Also, I have earned lifetime membership in the Top Producer Club of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.

Long & Foster offers one-stop shopping for your real estate and other related needs. You can find information on my site for Long & Foster sponsored companies for mortgage loans, title services, insurance, moving and storage services, home inspections, and home fix-up and repairs. Also, you can findavailable information on school systems, local governments, and Long & Foster's various services.Finally,the web page can provide you accessto the latest mortgage interest rate information and let you contact Prosperity Home Loansfor the latest information and to start a loan application for loan approval.

Please be assured that I have the knowledge, experience, and patience to help you find the best property available to meet your needs.You can have completetrust that I will fulfillmy duties acting as yourBuyer Brokerand to help ensure that you will have a positive buying experience.

2.Selling

For existing home owners thinking about selling, I offer a full range of services to help sell your home at the best available price. I have an extensive marketing plan that will ensure the maximum exposure foryour home especially during our current low demand conditions. I combine both traditional and high tech tools to market properties to the greatest number of potential buyers.My services include access to a professional decorator (at no additional cost) to help provide you guidance in de-cluttering the home and to help stage your home for sale to attract the most potential buyers. My extensive negotiating experience willhelp ensure that you will receive the maximum cash from the sale of your home with the least amount of stress.

Most importantly, I am very trustworthy, and have high ethical standards and work for Long & Foster, a company that was rated the most trustworthy real estate company in the USA.You will appreciate the importance of ethicsas we get into the home selling process described in this section. Finally, I have the Long & Foster team behind me as part of your one stop real estate services, with thousands of other company agentsto help make sure that you have a positive selling experience.

3. My Newsletters

Across the top of the site you will see group of pages. One of the pages is titled "My Newsletters".

I do a Real Estate Newsletter every two weeks, and this page includes links to may last 6 Newsletters. These Newsletters include the latest happenings in the local real estate market for potential buyers, sellers, and investors. Reading more than the latest Newsletter will give you an idea of how market conditions are transitioning in our areas. For those of my readers not interested in making a move right now, the Newsletters also provide safety and other ideas on maintaining and improving homes. I cover the latest market conditions and provide guidance to both home sellers and home buyers on what to expect when looking for a home purchase. I suggest you start off reading my latest Newsletter, and then scan the links for previous Newsletter articles that may interest you.

2.NeighborhoodNews

If you are not fully engaged in local real estate you need current information related to the local real estate market conditions. The question is: How do you get local real estate information that is geared to your particular area or another area that you are considering for a within the Washington metro area? The answer is through Long & Foster's Neighborhood News Monthly Reports.

This is one of the most powerful tools that I can provide you to keep abreast of your local real estate market. This will provide you with an interactive tool to see thelatestlist of homes for sale and those homes that have recently sold. You can sign up to receive this monthly Neighborhood News Report in your email on one (or more areas) that interest you.

Long & Foster'sNeighborhood Newscovers many of the zip codes in our entire 3state service area (Virginia, Maryland,and DC.) The standard Neighborhood News publication has real estate information on recent new listings, current sale inventory, recent sales, statistics of market changes, and other important information in the zip code that you live and/or are interested in moving to.

If you open this page and complete the sign up form you with receive a copy of theNeighborhoodNews report for your zip code(s) each month on the day that you sign up, at no charge.

3.What's My Home Worth

Another page that can sometimes help potential home sellers get a general idea of what there home value is "What's My Home Worth". The page includes information fromNeighborhood360, an online program that provides a wide range of demographics, housing data, school info and neighborhood amenities. Take a deep data dive into 155 million street addresses. Word of Caution: While these programs are getting better at estimating a home's current value, they are still not perfect. Please don't use this alone to make a major purchase or sale decision without contacting me for my advice. I can provide you with more timely and accurate home sale data based on your specific property.

4. My Featured Listings

Please take a look and you will seesome of the best properties in the area listed by me and other Realtors in my long & Foster offices in Burke, Fairfax Station, Kingstown, andAlexandria City, including Old Town.

5.Homes Currently Listed for Sale

I know you are interested in seeing all of the properties for sale in our area so I have included aFull Property Search as part of my website. When you are ready to do a complete search of other listings, please use my PROPERTY SEARCH area. Here will you findALLof the "ACTIVE" listings found in the local MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICES. Please be assured that this search includesall of the propertiesoffered by real estate brokers and some for-sale-by-owners in our area. Just list your criteria and you will be off and running. Once you see a property or properties that interest you, please contact me for more details, including a showing at your convenience.

By the way, if you don't find a property that you have seen elsewhere, the reason is that you missed purchasing the property, since it is already "under contract" to someone else. Some of the other sites don't remove property listings on a timely basis when they are Under Contract or Sold. I assume that these sites want you to waste your time looking at properties that have already been spoken for. You won't find this problem with my site since it reflects property changes as soon as listing agents changes become effective and available.

Conclusions

This is just a quick guide to my site. There are other pages that might interest you and even the latest financing and other real estate news.

Now that you have taken a tour of my websites, you should know my real estate experience and why you may want to talk to me.I am your person if you are searching for an "Experienced" Realtor, and you should be at this time. Real estate market conditions have changed, and you need an experienced advisor that has worked in similar markets in the past, whether you are buying or selling real estate t live in or for investment purposes.

Of course my website will allow you to contact me directly for any or all of your real estate needs or that of your friends and relatives. Most of my business is on referrals, and I will commit to provide top level services for any person that you refer to me. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you for reading this message and good luck in your sale or purchase of a home or investment property.