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Your Real Estate Resources for Caroline and Spotsylvania VA

This website is dedicated to providing resources for the consumers in Caroline and Spotsylvania counties. We understand that most people utilize the internet for researching their housing needs. Please feel free to look around and use any of the vast resources here. There are many tools and lots of information on this site. Feel free to e-mail or call us if you need help finding anything.

If you have further questions regarding these resources or about our history you can learn more about us on facebook, twitter, or our real estate blog www.CarolineVAblog.com. We completely agree with the need for privacy and share the feelings of not wanting to be bothered, so when you are ready for our assistance/services please start here.

We love this area and hope you will find your home or land and make it a relaxing home like our family has for the past 15 years.

Matthew and Jennifer Rathbun are licensed salespersons in the Commonwealth of Virginia and members of the National Association of REALTORS®.

Recent Posts from www.CarolineVABlog.com

Homes for Sale in Caroline, Virginia

The Homes for Sale in Caroline, Virginiamarket isn’t great.  There – I said it.  I’m a Realtor who isn’t going to try and tell you that it’s a “unbelievable market”.  If your house is priced well and marketed well – it will sell.  Will it sell in your time frame?  Nope, probably not.  It’s our job to establish reasonable expectations for Sellers and for Buyers.  It’s getting better.  Homes are selling.  Especially if they are REO properties (homes that are banked owned) because they are low-hassle-low-sales-price homes.  There are lots of other options and some of them are priced as well or even better than REO properties. Read More...

Federal Guidelines for Short Sales?

Go ahead… ask any Realtor or Seller who has gone through a short-sale and they’ll tell you that it can and usually is a nightmare.  The lenders have little ambition to work with the Borrower and the Realtors only have the power of pestering the Lender until they finally agree to accept the short-sale.  I’ve been traveling all over Virginia and Maryland training Realtors  on how to best help their clients, but even with those tools we’re still at the mercy of the Lender.  Read More...

Is It Time To Refinance?

There isn’t much good news in this battered economy, but the talk that the recession is coming to end is bringing a welcome break to some homeowners. Interest rates have dropped to historic lows, and many are taking advantage of this by refinancing their mortgages.

On April 2, 2009 Freddie Mac reported it’s lowest recorded interest rates in 70+ years. My rates this past Friday we’re actually better then they were back in April. With fixed rates under 5% and my 5-1 ARM under 4%. It might be the perfect time to take advantage of the opportunity!!!  Read More...