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Monica Youngling My business is based on repeat clients and referrals--I’m always happy to connect you with past clients so you can hear firsthand how the process unfolds.

Est 2004 | DC, MD, VA Real Estate Professional
🚘 DC | MD | VA
🏡 Est. 2004
🏆 Multiple Award Recipient
⭐️ Washingtonian Mag Top Agent
❤️ Repeat Client & Referral Based

Your deed, your most recent tax bill, and your mortgage payoff figure are the three things I ask for first.After that it...
05/11/2026

Your deed, your most recent tax bill, and your mortgage payoff figure are the three things I ask for first.

After that it depends on the house, so permits for the deck if you built one, the warranty on the roof if it is newer than you are, and receipts for anything substantial you have replaced in the last few years.

Disclosures come later and are worth treating seriously rather than as a box to tick, because the ones people are vague about are reliably the ones that resurface two months after closing.

Getting all of it into one folder before you list saves about two weeks of scrambling later on.

Request a free copy of my book and there is a list in there you can work from.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

Do open houses still work?They do, though not the way they did fifteen years ago, since practically nobody walks into on...
04/11/2026

Do open houses still work?

They do, though not the way they did fifteen years ago, since practically nobody walks into one now without having already gone through every photograph on their phone in the car. What an open house is genuinely good at is putting three or four interested parties in your kitchen at the same time, which changes how all of them behave.

Request a free copy of my book if you want the rest of the marketing picture.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

03/11/2026

Conventional wisdom says you should wait until spring to list.

The sellers who ignore that tend to find themselves with a house on the market at the exact moment six of their neighbors have taken theirs off until February, and the buyers still out looking in November are almost never doing it for entertainment.

Ask me for a free copy of my book if you are thinking about listing now.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

The trick-or-treaters have gone home. The oven is still warm.These caramel apple bars are what I make when I want the ho...
30/10/2026

The trick-or-treaters have gone home. The oven is still warm.

These caramel apple bars are what I make when I want the house to smell like October without doing any actual work, and they hold up on a plate for two days if they last that long.

Recipe is on the graphic, and my free book is yours if you want one.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

🏡Widewater Market Minute⭐𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.The sharp rise in US treasury yields (an...
27/10/2026

🏡Widewater Market Minute⭐
𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

The sharp rise in US treasury yields (and mortgage rates) over the last 2 months has already hit pending sales and existing home sales (both -7% MoM in Sept), and builder confidence (October's reading of 29 was the lowest index level seen in 14 years). Let's hope the Fed stays pat next week!

🏡 𝐑 𝐄 - 𝐒 𝐀 𝐋 𝐄 𝐇 𝐎 𝐌 𝐄 𝐒 🏡
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𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘
$$515,000 LP | 22 Sandy Ln
$1,174,000 LP | 60 Shady Cove Ln
$524,900 LP | 5 Raspberry Ln
$379,900 LP | 228 Norman Rd
$619,900 LP | 1178 Decatur Rd
$425,000 LP | 51 Brent Point Rd

𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚
$539,900 LP | 50 Barclay Ln (Stonebridge)
$399,900 LP | 479 Telegraph Rd

🏡 𝐍 𝐄 𝐖 𝐂 𝐎 𝐍 𝐒 𝐓 𝐑 𝐔 𝐂 𝐓 𝐈 𝐎 𝐍 🏡
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𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘
$649,900 | 163 Norman Rd, (Wyndemere) - Completed

𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚
$649,900 | 159 Norman Rd, (Pipe Run) - Aug


🏞️ 𝐋 𝐀 𝐍 𝐃 🏞️
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𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘:
$110,000 LP | 27 William & Mary Ln
$110,000 LP | 26 William & Mary Ln
$510,000 LP | 80 Shady Cove Ln
$299,000 | Rock Raymond Dr
$949,000 | Shore Dr
$415,000 | Lot 6 Shady Cove Ln
$699,900 | Norman Rd

Listing details: https://mywidewater.com

26/10/2026

By the second week of December, showing requests in most neighborhoods fall off a cliff.

Which leaves roughly six weeks to get a house listed, seen, and under contract before the calendar makes the decision for you, and six weeks is genuinely enough if you begin now rather than after Thanksgiving.

Ask me for a free copy of my book and we can work out whether it is realistic for your place.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

Two to five percent of the purchase price is the range most buyers should be setting aside for closing.That covers the l...
24/10/2026

Two to five percent of the purchase price is the range most buyers should be setting aside for closing.

That covers the lender's fees, title and escrow, and the taxes and insurance collected in advance, and the part people miss is that it sits on top of your down payment rather than coming out of it.

Ask your lender for an estimate early, and ask me for a free copy of my buyer guide.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/buyer-book

People assume downsizing is mostly a question of square footage.It tends to be a question of which version of your life ...
22/10/2026

People assume downsizing is mostly a question of square footage.

It tends to be a question of which version of your life you want to be living in three years, and the square footage falls out of that answer rather than driving it.

The practical part is that sorting through forty years of belongings takes far longer than anyone plans for, which is why starting in October rather than January is the difference between choosing carefully and having someone haul it all away.

Line the sale and the purchase up together if you can manage it.

Request a free copy of my book and we can map it out.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

Your five o'clock showing in October is happening in the dark.Walk through the house at that hour some evening this week...
19/10/2026

Your five o'clock showing in October is happening in the dark.

Walk through the house at that hour some evening this week with every lamp you own switched on, and pay attention to which rooms still feel like caves, because those are the ones quietly costing you offers.

My free book covers the rest of the staging, so ask me for a copy.

https://monicayoungling2.book.live/biz-card-book

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