Ashley Smith is a loan officer with over 22 years of experience. She has worked with many different banks. She is currently with Truist Bank. She is very passionate about helping buyers and sellers with their home financing needs. Truist has a $7,500 Grant. While geared towards 1st time home buyers, there is no requirement that a buyer be a 1st tim…

Dr. Nixon, CEO of Integrative Counseling & Relationship Therapy, Inc., is an award-winning licensed professional counselor, marriage & family therapist, certified mindfulness mediation teacher and wellness specialist. She provides expert and compassionate treatment and care to individuals, couples and families seeking to better their mental…

In today's competitive housing market, many first-time homebuyers find themselves priced out due to soaring home prices and interest rates, lack of cash to cover closing costs, and downpayment. However, there's hope! In this episode, we're joined by Laura Triplett, a seasoned loan officer at Atlantic Coast Mortgage, to explore the wealth of resourc…

Are you in the process of selling your current home but haven't found the perfect new property yet? Are you struggling to figure out how to sell and buy because you need the funds from your sale to fund the new purchase? A bridge loan could be the solution you need. A bridge loan provides you with temporary financing to cover the gap between sellin…

Do you have a space that you’d like to redesign or renovate? Does the thought of designing or renovating a space overwhelm you? At what point should you hire/consult with an interior designer – beginning of a project, middle or towards the end? Have you thought that interior designers are expensive? Then this episode is for you! Join us as we discu…

Are you a woman business owner ready to get to the next level? Are you experiencing any of the following symptoms? You are doing all the right things, but your marketing is falling on deaf ears You feel pressure from your clients, prospects, and competitors to lower your prices You can’t take on any more business because you can’t work any more hou…

We were honored to have Jeffrey Jordan - Luke's Wings Director of Corporate Sponsorship as our Real Estate Junkies DMV Veterans Day podcast guest. Luke's Wings provides emergency travel planning services and airplane tickets for the families and loved ones of wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans and fallen officers during hospital re…

Jim Metcalf of HK Bentley Appraisers has worked in DC, VA and MD as a real estate appraiser for over 36 years. He knows the challenges of the ever changing market and has incredible knowledge/experience in the appraisal industry.By Patricia Keller Gallardo, Karen Daily and Susan Banville

Lisa Geraci Rigoni is a #1 Best Selling author of her book 17 Spatulas and the Man Who Fried an Egg. She is owner, and CDO - Chief Declutter Officer - of The Organizing Mentors (TOM) and has been helping her clients Reclaim their space Mentally and Physically since 2008. TOM serves the NOVA/DC Metro area with various organizing services, including …

We are super excited to welcome our guest Owen Keegan to the podcast today! Owen is an attorney in Northern Virginia and he has been practicing for over 30 years. Today he is joining us to talk all things contract breaches in the world of real estate. Throughout the episode, we discuss a few of the common types of contract breaches as well as how t…

Today we welcome guests, Linda Boosinger and Christine Allocca, to learn more about 2 different but equally successful approaches to getting started in real estate investing. Here's what we cover: Stories on how they got started and discovered a niche. Funding is an essential part of investing - what are some of the options How Building a team with…

Today we welcome guest Todd Pettibon to discuss tips for buying a home. Here's what we cover: Optimized ways of increasing savings to be able to put a downpayment on a home Percentages of monthly income to spend on home purchase, personal savings and investments A few tactics to reduce unsecured debt and the importance of credit scores How homes ar…

Welcome to our 1st Real Estate Junkies Podcast! Hosted by Patricia Gallardo, Associate Broker/Realtor with Compass Real Estate. She is joined by Karen Daily, attorney at EKKO Title Ashburn/One Loudoun and Middleburg, and by Susan Banville, Senior Loan Officer with Embrace Home Loans. Today's podcast focuses on buyer options in today's real estate m…