Loudoun County offers a wide variety of gated communities. Whether you’re looking for a condo priced around $200,000 or a multi- million dollar home on 6 acres, Loudoun County has you covered. The JS Realty Team @ Samson Properties has the knowledge and experience to help our clients buy or sell in all of these gated communities.
BELMONT in Ashburn is a magnificent gated community offering condos from around $200,000 up to million dollar estate homes. Belmont also offers a wide variety of town homes. Featuring wonderful community amenities such as a championship golf club, clubhouse, pools, dining, tennis, fitness and much more! Learn more about the history and amenities by visiting their website.
CREIGHTON FARMS in Aldie, Virginia is an extraordinary custom home, gated community with a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course. Crieghton Farms boasts 184 home sites sitting on 900 breathtaking acres. Owners can choose from 1+ acre custom villas or 3-7 acre custom estates. The wealth of amenities and activities make this a world–class neighborhood. An elegant 34,000 square foot American Vernacular-style Clubhouse houses and hosts many of the community members focused facilities and programs.
PARKSIDE AT ASHBURN offers affordable townhomes in a gated community. Most of the luxury townhomes are 3-level homes with 2-car garages. Parkside offers a considerable amount of private greenspace for recreation areas, basketball court, walking areas and courtyards. In addition, the community offers a resort style pool with a clubhouse, fitness areas and children’s play areas. As an added bonus, Parkside is only a mile away from the future terminus of the Metro’s Silver Line!
RIVER CREEK was the area’s first gated community. Situated near the Potomac River in Leesburg, River Creek also has a championship Golf Course owned by ClubCorp Network – which owns hundreds of golf courses across the United States. River Creek has 1,100 homes spread out through 20 neighborhoods covering 600 acres. About half the homes are single family homes with the other half compromising of town homes and patio homes. A Clubhouse, restaurant, tennis courts, and pools are just a few of the many amenities that River Creek offers. All types of families call River Creek their home, from empty-nesters to families with children, and everything in between.
Loudoun County is also home to 2 active adult retirement communities – Lansdowne Woods in Leesburg and Potomac Green in Ashburn.
Previously known as “Leisure World”, LANSDOWNE WOODS offers prestigious home ownership in one of 4 high-rise condo buildings or in one of their 3 low-rise buildings. Featuring resort-style living with ballrooms, fitness facilities, saunas, indoor swimming pool, hot tub, massages, rooftop tennis courts and much more!
POTOMAC GREEN offers a range of condos with prices ranging from $216,000-$391,000. Plenty of activities abound with 29,000 square foot clubhouse, indoor & outdoor pools, tennis & bocce courts, walking & jogging trails, billards and game rooms, indoor walking track and over 25 clubs and committees to entertain everyone’s needs.
From a small 1 bedroom condo to a multi-million dollar estate, Loudoun County has a gated community to fit your needs! Feel free to contact us for information on available properties in one of the communities listed here. We can help you find the home of your dreams!
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She had a good grasp on what needed to be done and we were able to give her some additional ideas that we know will help the home show its best.
At this point, Anne was very pleased with our advice and marketing plan, so we moved on to explain the “Exclusive Right to List” listing agreement. This contract between the JS Realty Team and the seller gives us the right to sell their home and represent them. The very next day, Anne signed on with us and became a client of The JS Realty Team @ Samson Properties.
Once the home was ready, we brought in our professional photographer to take still shots and a moving Virtual Tour of the home and neighborhood amenities. When we received the images from the photographer, we set out to build the listing, web sites, take room measurements, film a YouTube video, and create brochures, then roll out our extensive social media campaign. And that’s just part of the many facets of our marketing program. We suggested that the home “go live” on the market on a Thursday evening, so when Realtors and buyers who were searching for homes in Anne’s neighborhood woke up Friday morning, our new listing would be live and complete for them to view.
Once the contract is ratified, our job turns to getting the 
These three reporting entities will provide a credit score that is used to determine the risk associated with a particular borrower regarding repayment of the loan. A number of credit related variables are used to calculate the credit score. The credit score is used as a predictor as to the likelihood that the consumer will have late payments in the next 24 months. The lower the score, the greater likelihood that the borrower will be late on a payment or payments.
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more difficult. If this is the case, but you definitely want to rent, you should consider using the experience of the Property Management Team at the JS Realty Team. Our Property Management Team will make the managing of your home as stress-free as possible. And if you do plan on returning to the area after a couple of years away, then you need to determine if you are going to want to move back into the same home, or find a new one.
This is another major factor to consider. How tolerant will you be of strangers living in your home? For example, if having your prized landscaping not kept up to your standards would make you upset, you may want to reconsider if renting is right for you. No matter how well you screen your potential tenants, there is still the potential that they will not treat your home like you do. The JS Realty Team performs our due diligence when screening potential tenants and we have had tenants that have left our clients homes in better condition than when they first moved in. On the flip side, we’ve also had tenants that did not fare as well as we would like. You are always taking a chance when you let strangers live in your home.
You see flags all the time; in front of schools, public offices, even homes. But did you know there is an official Flag Code? This code formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, and also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. According to the code, “The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.”
Initially, there were no reasons left as to why Red, White, and Blue were chosen to represent the USA. However, in 1782, Congress chose the same colors for the Great Seal and offered this designation:
New Year’s Day—January 1
Independence Day—July 4
In addition, half-staff the Flag (sunrise to sunset) on these days:
The answer is YES, you absolutely do! In fact, there are actually some reasons you need a Realtor more today than ever before. Buying and selling a home is such an exciting time in your life. Why try to reinvent the wheel and spend countless hours researching market information or looking for a document that may or may not be outdated? Enjoy your time looking at homes and preparing for a successful transaction by hiring a Realtor to help you along the way.
Any full time Agent has a multitude of subscriptions to websites that assist or help in the home buying or selling process (you should see our username spreadsheet, it is several pages long!). Some of these sites have fees and some of them don’t, but just knowing which ones are useful or even good is a part time job. Your Agent will save you time and energy by using their resources to simplify the home buying or selling process. Agents also have access to the MLS, which has data that you can not find anywhere else on the web. It is up to the minute, Realtor-to-Realtor information about the property you may be interested in, or the neighborhood you may be selling in. Let your Agent give you current, relevant information instead of the outdated listing you may find while surfing the web.
This is what they do all day – they live and breathe real estate. A seasoned Agent knows how deals are being negotiated in certain markets, they know the feel for whether or not a micro-market is hot, whether it is a sellers’ market or not, etc. And this is just the beginning! Having an Agent help you understand how to not just present your offer, but how to make it a winning offer that suits current conditions is vital. This knowledge of the market applies to 6 or 7 different topics within the contract alone that can make or break your offer. Your Agent already knows what others are currently doing in these markets, so why waste time trying to figure it all out yourself?
Realtors know how to sell homes – it’s their job! They know the latest tools to use and what the buyers want. Today, prospective buyers expect professional photos and videos to accompany your listing. Let your real estate Agent handle staging and marketing your home across various channels. Plus, let them screen candidates before you spend your valuable extra time cleaning your home for a showing. Your Agent won’t waste your time showing off your home to someone who is not even qualified to buy it.
A seasoned Agent has attended and negotiated dozens of home inspections. This brings them to a level of experience and knowledge that can only be learned by navigating a variety of challenges and different homes with different issues. If you are selling, they can prepare you to avoid certain hurdles by making the necessary repairs in advance. If you are buying, they can look for potential issues while you enjoy looking at the size of a room and envisioning where your TV will fit on the wall. An expert eye will be looking for water leaks, a yard that may have potential issues or even just the age of the appliances and major systems. Being able to have multiple sets of eyes and different perspectives can really make or break your buying or selling experience.
Your Realtor will have access to the multitude of current documents that are needed along the way. Just making an offer can be a 28 page document! In addition, there are contingencies to attend to and either negotiate and/or remove. There may be notices that need to be provided or documents to receive. A great Realtor will have systems in place to keep track of each and every aspect of not only the contract, but coordinating all the folks that help you buy the home. Do you really want to worry about whether you ordered your termite inspection and who needs it after it is done? What happens if there are termites, and how do you address it to keep you in compliance? A great Realtor will make it all look simple. Just know that on the back end there is a lot going on that you don’t have to worry about. You have enough to take care of with the loan process, packing, and moving. Focus on your new home and let the experts take care of the rest!
HAZARD INSURANCE
WHAT IS INCLUDED – Be very clear about what is covered and more importantly what is NOT covered. You don’t want to lose something and later find out it wasn’t included in the policy.
BUSINESS NEEDS – Do you have a home office? There are both property and liability business exposures that most standard homeowner policies don’t address, as well as low levels of coverage. The typical policy appears to be around $2,500 for in-home office equipment. And while that may sound like enough, by the time you add the costs of your computer, software, tablet, printer, scanner, phone, furniture, etc., it could very well exceed that amount. You’ll need to find coverage that can include all of your home office equipment and supplies.
LOWER INTEREST RATES – Interest rates can be lowered due to a change in the industry as a whole, such as the example above. Interest rates can also be lowered by shortening the term of the loan. 15 year rates will be lower than 30 years loans. Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARM’s) are loans that are fixed for a specific time period such as 3, 5 7 or 10 years and will typically be offered at rates lower than a 30 year fixed loan.
