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	<title>Focus on Crofton</title>
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	<description>Crofton Maryland Real Estate and Community Information</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Crofton Real Estate Agent Talks About FSBO&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/16/crofton-real-estate-agent-talks-about-fsbos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not&#160;often you&#8217;ll find a Crofton real estate agent defending homeowners who choose to sell &#8220;by owner&#8221;&#160;&#8211; but that&#8217;s what I found myself doing yesterday on ActiveRain, a real estate blog network in which I participate.&#160; In fact, my Maryland Real Estate Blog on ActiveRain is ranked #43 out of 88,158 members, for most subscribers.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crofton Real Estate Update - April 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/14/crofton-real-estate-update-april-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The most accurate source of information about what&#8217;s happening in Crofton real estate is probably the&#160;monthly statistics released by MRIS.&#160; I usually review and report them for you&#160;between the 10th and 15th of each month, since regional and national real estate news doesn&#8217;t always reflect what&#8217;s happening in Crofton real estate.
Crofton home sellers are listing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiating Skills Are Essential for Crofton Home Sellers</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/12/negotiating-skills-are-essential-for-crofton-home-sellers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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CROFTON HOME SELLERS &#8211; In a Buyer&#8217;s Market like we have today, home buyers don&#8217;t just hope you will compromise your home-selling goals &#8211; they EXPECT you to accept a lower price, offer more incentives, and meet their timing demands.

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By definition, a Home Buyer&#8217;s Market is one in which economic and psychological conditions favor buyers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crofton Mountain Climber Ready for Mt. McKinley</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/10/crofton-mountain-climber-ready-for-mt-mckinley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/10/crofton-mountain-climber-ready-for-mt-mckinley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t see my post a few weeks ago, let me refer you to Adventures of a Crofton Climber&#160;about&#160;Crofton resident,&#160;Art Huseonica.&#160; You&#8217;ll want to read&#160;that post&#160;and click through to the links for some background information.
After that, you&#8217;ll probably be interested in this&#160;update from Art&#8217;s wife, Karen&#160;Huseonica:

&#8220;Art Huseonica is busy training and preparing for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Crofton Home Owners - Taming Your Yard (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/09/new-crofton-home-owners-taming-your-yard-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/09/new-crofton-home-owners-taming-your-yard-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a recent home buyer in Crofton,&#160;you may be&#160;discovering that the beautiful manicured beds and lawn need some basic spring maintenance &#8211; and you may not know where to start.&#160; Several days ago, I posted Part 1 of Taming Your Crofton Yard, which addressed the need to clean out your shrubbery beds, removing leaves and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Rank Anne Arundel County #7</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/07/experts-rank-anne-arundel-county-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did&#160;you see the Forbes Magazine article featuring the nation&#8217;s Best Places to Get Ahead?&#160; Anne Arundel County is #7.
Matt Woolsey reports on&#160;communities where income and job growth are the highest, based upon income and job data from the U.S. Census and Department of Labor Statistics.&#160; They didn&#8217;t take into account the likelihood that this will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Big Secret for Effectively Marketing Your Crofton Home</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/05/one-big-secret-for-effectively-marketing-your-crofton-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Factors that Impact the Sale of Real Estate in Crofton have been my Monday blog topic for the past several weeks.&#160;&#160;Previously, I addressed factors you cannot control (such as the weather, economy, politics, competition, environment) and factors I may advise you on but you control completely (pricing, condition and access).&#160; 
Marketing, however, is usually within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cockers for Crofton Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/03/cockers-for-crofton-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/03/cockers-for-crofton-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 09:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crofton families can finally get that&#160;cocker spaniel&#160;they&#8217;ve been wanting on Sunday, May 4.&#160; A Cocker Spaniel Rescue Adoption Day will be held tomorrow from 12&#8211;3 at&#160;Petsmart, located at 2601 Housley Road in Annapolis, Maryland.
My daughter rescued a 5&#8211;year old female cocker spaniel&#160;from a puppy breeder several years ago, just in time to get life-saving surgery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Blogs Around the Country</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/02/real-estate-blogs-around-the-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/05/02/real-estate-blogs-around-the-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 05:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crofton, you may enjoy reading these&#160;real estate blog posts on ActiveRain that were written recently by&#160;some of my friends.&#160; I&#8217;ve selected a dozen&#160;for you on a variety of topics addressed by lenders, stagers, and home inspectors, as well as real estate agents around the country.
1.&#160; Family Under-values Mom&#8217;s Castle of 46 Years was posted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Solve this Puzzle?</title>
		<link>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/04/30/can-you-solve-this-puzzle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.focusoncrofton.com/2008/04/30/can-you-solve-this-puzzle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Woda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen the The Washington Post feature called PAGE THREE / Homework Headaches?&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;There was a homework headache last week titled&#160;&#8221;a puzzling encounter with&#160;5th grade math.&#8221;&#160; Here it is&#8230; give it a try&#8230;

The instructions: &#8220;Write operation signs&#160;in the following number sequences to make every equation true.&#160; The first problem is done for you.&#8221;&#160;&#160;
It turns [...]]]></description>
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