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Earnest Money vs. Down Payment: What Virginia Buyers Actually Pay and When

  Almost every Virginia buyer we meet has the same quiet worry: they have heard they need earnest money, they know they need a down payment, and somewhere in their head those two numbers have been added together into a figure that feels impossible. They are two different payments, made at two differ

Dunn Loring, VA Real Estate Guide | Homes Near the Metro

Dunn Loring is one of those Northern Virginia places that most people pass through without ever quite locating: they know the Metro station, they know the Mosaic District is somewhere nearby, and they assume the rest is Vienna or Merrifield. In fact it is a small, distinct community of roughly 9,500

Fairfax County ZIP Code Guide: Every City & What It's Known For

Fairfax County is not one place, it is roughly two dozen of them, and the ZIP code on an address is the fastest shorthand for which one you are actually talking about. A 22101 McLean address and a 22015 Burke address are twenty minutes apart and live in completely different worlds: different price t

Selling a House With Unpermitted Work in Fairfax County

A finished basement no one pulled a permit for, a deck the previous owner built one summer, a wall that was moved to open up the kitchen. Unpermitted work is everywhere in Fairfax County's older housing stock, and for a seller it can turn into a stressful surprise the moment a buyer's inspector or a