I have lived with anxiety for much of my life. As a teenager, I had crippling social anxiety. I was bullied as a child and I felt that any social interaction could lead to my being victimized again. When you’re bullied at seemingly random times and after random actions, you start to look for patterns. When you don’t find a pattern, you develop the anxiety that at any given point, something terrible will happen to you. That’s a scary way to live your life and a very unpleasant one. It leads to avoidance and fear of many situations which are involved in having a simple quality of life. My social…

We buy and sell lots of properties. We do so much volume selling our own properties that as a real estate agent, I often rank in the top 10% of agents worldwide (that says more about the industry than it does about me). And that’s without representing anyone but our own family! Most of these home sales are unemotional on our part. We do the work. We get paid and we pay our taxes. We move on to the next project. Today, we closed up on a different type of transaction. As part of our plan to hit the road, we sold our primary residence…a condo in Northern Virginia. The…

This is a task that we have perhaps failed at more often than we have succeeded. In this blog post, I’ll go through the mistakes we’ve made, how they’ve cost us, and our processes moving forward. Most people would rather go to the Dentist than hire a contractor to repair their home. These common mistakes are the most usual culprit when it comes to a contract that is stressful and costly. 1. Defining the Scope of Work When we were starting out, our scope of work was simple. It basically didn’t exist. Our contract would say things like “install new cabinets” or “replace windows.” There was no mention of which…