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	<title>Doug Francis &#124; Real Estate and Homes for sale in Vienna, McLean and Oakton, Virginia &#124; Living in Fairfax and Arlington County &#124; MLS listings search</title>
	<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com</link>
	<description>My real estate blog in Vienna and McLean, Fairfax and Arlington with a little humor too. Easy MLS Search too.</description>
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		<title>Aer Lingus Rental Search</title>
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Welcome to an easy home search for rental properties in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. To reach Dulles International Airport, you will need to travel on the Dulles Access Road which is also known as Virginia Route 267.
Communities in Northern Virginia include: 
(the links are for 4+ bedroom homes for rent)


McLean
Vienna
Great Falls
Oakton
Reston
Herndon
Arlington
Fairfax

Condominiums in Arlington from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/03/aer-lingus-rental-search/</link>
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		<title>The real estate market catches a hint of Spring 2010</title>
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We had a bright and sunny weekend here in Northern Virginia, and a surge of home buyers were out looking at the homes for sale that had popped up late Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. A little marketing tip is to put a home into the MLS database Thursday to feed all the IDX sites [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/03/the-real-estate-market-catches-a-hint-of-spring-2010/</link>
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		<title>McLean VA Home Sales Stats &#124; Hyper Local January 2010</title>
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The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data  have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the McLean, Virginia zip codes 22101 and 22102 real estate sales for January [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/mclean-va-home-sales-stats-hyper-local-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Vienna, VA Home Sales Stats &#124; Hyper Local January 2010</title>
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The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data  have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the Vienna, Virginia zip codes 22180 and 22182 real estate sales for January [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/vienna-va-home-sales-stats-hyper-local-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Preparing to sell a home: Understanding your target market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is essential to understand today’s home buyers and how they perceive the market and search for homes.


Home buyers today begin their search using the Internet often weeks before they look at homes to buy, and expect a well written description and easy to view pictures. If sites require registration to view photos then buyers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/preparing-to-sell-a-home-understanding-your-target-market/</link>
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		<title>Helping prepare a 40 year-old home to sell</title>
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A significant number of the homes in Northern Virginia were built in the 1950&#8217;s, 1960&#8217;s, and 1970&#8217;s. Yes, a lot has been built since then, but the building booms in those times constructed significantly smaller homes and much faster.The total number of homes built in the 1970&#8217;s alone outpaces the most recent boom time.
Best of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/helping-prepare-a-40-year-old-home-to-sell/</link>
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		<title>Your house has an ice dam? Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today everyone seemed to be having issues with ice dams clogging their gutters causing all sorts of water problems in their homes. Melting water from your roof hits your gutters and refreezes when temperatures are below freezing for an extended period of time.  Most water flows over the ice forming icicles, but it slowly builds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/your-house-has-an-ice-dam-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Your house has an ice dam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the problems of having too much snow and below freezing temperatures for a week is the gutter ice dam. This happens when the gutter stops draining due to compacted snow or a block of ice. Then, the warm air escaping from your home generates just enough heat to melt the snow pack causing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/your-house-has-an-ice-dam/</link>
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		<title>New FHA Home Mortgage Guidelines for April 2010</title>
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David Stevens who is the Assistant Secretary for Housing &#8211; Federal Housing Commissioner had the FHA issue new guidelines on January 21, 2010 to help reshape the government insured home mortgage agency and how it offers low down payment loans to home buyers. It is a little boring or even dry for Washington D.C., but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/02/new-fha-home-mortgage-guidelines-for-april-2010/</link>
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		<title>Buying a Home with an Older HVAC Unit?</title>
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Considering buying a home with a central air conditioning or a heat pump system? Well it is essential that you know that as of January 1, 2010, manufacturers aren’t going to build any new systems using R-22 refrigerant or any new spare parts for those existing systems using R-22. And, virtually all those old HVAC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dougfrancis.com/2010/01/buying-a-home-with-an-older-hvac-unit/</link>
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