The 4th of July is a great Holiday! Its a time to honor our troops and veterans and the ones that have sacrificed their lives for our great country! So what will you be doing to honor this weekend?? WHERE WILL YOU WATCH FIREWORKS! Here are a few activities for this weekend in the Richmond, VA area! Enjoy!

Richmond Festivities:

Genworth Financial Fourth of July Celebration

• 6620 W. Broad St.
• Friday July 1
• 6:30 PM
• FREE
• Concert, food, family fun and FIREWORKS
• Free Parking

2nd annual Parham Rd. Independence Day Parade & Festival

• Parham Rd. Baptist Church
• Saturday July 2
• 10am – 230pm
• Inflatable games and Family Fun
• Great Music
• Silent Auction
• Food
• Crafts

Dogwood Dell July 4th Festivities

• Family Fun starting at 4pm!
• Games, music and fireworks!

Kings Dominion Fireworks
• July 2 – 4 at 10 pm.
• Tribute to Armed Forces – Free admission July 3 and 4 for all active and retired military personnel and discounts for friends and family!
Richmond Squirrels Game On the 4th!

• Catch a Squirrels game against Trenton Thunder
• Watch great fireworks after!
• Game starts at 6:35
• Watch the fireworks from the Science Museum right next door!

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As always, if you know of anyone looking to buy or sell real estate or who may benefit from receiving this information, please let me know. If your friends, family, coworkers, or neighbors have any real estate needs please don’t hesitate to contact me at any time.

Tyler Rackley
The 20/20 Team, GoRichmondRealEstate.com, and Keller Williams Realty Richmond Virginia

Did you move recently? Are you missing important documents or bills? Have you spoken with the companies you receive mail from? This is a friendly reminder to have your mail forwarded to your new address. Moving can be stressfull I know and there is so much to do, but mail is a pretty important item. Important documents get mailed, bills, letters etcs.

I moved into my new place 2 months ago and the person that lived there before me moved out in March. When I first moved in I was excited to check the mail and get my “first” letter in the mail. What I found was when I would check the mail nothing would be addressed to me, instead it was addressed to the previous tenant. At the end of the week I had a large stack of mail that was addressed to the previous tenant, this included every magazine you could think of as well.I took the pile to the post office at the end of each week.

Now the most recent person that lived there before I can understand getting mail a few weeks after move out but I checked my mail today and had mail for that same person as well as a tenant that lived there even before this person! This tells me that somebody forgot to fill out the mail forwarding slip at the post office. This is very important becuase not every new owner or renter will forward your mail for you – some might just throw it away and there could be some very important documents you will miss.

Make sure the new owner/rents has filled out a change of address form, if they can not make it to the post office, advise them to fill it out online there is a $1 convienence charge but it is very simple!

Sometimes the mail services do not catch everything – in this case if you are not receiving your bills or regular mail I would call your service providers and have it changed in their mail delivery system.

Another helpful tip to let everyone know of your address change is to write up change of address cards and send them out to all friends and family they will really appreciate this when they are sending out the holiday greeting cards or just wanting to say hello.

Whether your taking it easy this weekend or taking a trip, enjoy the time with friends and family and remember to send your friends and family to The 2020 Team when interested in buying or selling their home!

The housing market has been up and down for years but is it starting to turn around? According to the creative real estate daily website Altos Research has been conducting studies on 20 cities to report if listing prices had risen or fallen. When results came back only 2 cities had dropped. Please refer to the article written by Amy Ransdell on the creative real estate daily website. (link posted below)

Please refer to Signs That Home Prices Are Not Double Dipping

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OPEN HOUSE 6/12 - 2001 W. Grace St Richmond VA 23220

One-of-a kind Fan home built in 1905, in 1940 converted from single family to multifamily apartments (Larami Apartments) and now restored into beautiful single family home.  Home includes 6/7 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms.  11′ ceilings, 8.5′ pocket doors, ornate moldings, beautiful light fixtures, and gorgeous hardwood floors are abundant in this classic three story home.  Attention to detail during renovation makes this home more than gorgeous and includes stained glass, beautiful fireplaces, and custom cabinetry.  Spacious 17′x29′ garage.  Handicap accessible In-law-suite makes this home unique.  Updates include; Steel Wheelchair Ramp (2002), Upgraded Electric (2002), AC (2003), New Roof (2004), Storm Windows (2009), Water Heater(2010).  If you miss this, you will regret it!

http://www.gorichmondrealestate.com/property/2001-Grace-Street-Richmond-VA-23220

Gorgeous Log home located on 5.5 acres!

WOW! Gorgeous log home built on 5.5 acres. This home is located in the quiet country setting of Montpelier in Hanover County. Featuring 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, with over 3000 square feet this very spacious home has a large living room featuring a double sided gas fireplace exposed to an Eat-In-Kitchen where you can enjoy a nice meal by the fire. The log cabin appearance to this home with exposed beams makes it unique to the rest. 5 detached sheds perfect for workshops and storage, a carport and 2 poll shed. Enjoy laying by your beautiful above ground pool on the surrounding deck.

Virginia Commonwealth University, more commonly known as VCU located in the City of Richmond,VA has grown tremendously over the last decade and has helped the city grow as well. VCU was first founded in 1838 and has since grown into a student body of more than 32,000! VCU has brought diversity to the city and has helped improve the attractiveness of the city.

In an article from the Richmond Times Dispatch, VCU continues to grow but not enough housing is available to accomadate all students. Plans to expand student housing over the 6 years will be set in motion starting this July. The combined projects will cost $38.5 million and the budget set for these projects is $41 million.

So what does this mean for Investors? Investors rent their properties to a lot of students attending VCU, with these projects underway investors may face trouble in the future when the expansion of the student housing is completed. The suitability of student housing is a competition with investors because of what student housing has to offer.

Investors that do not rent to students, this can also be a downfall because non-students may not want to live in a “college oriented city”, and the more student apartments that are being built, the less room there is for investment opportunities.

Please refer to VCU Keeps Building For more information on the VCU housing projects.

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http://actvra.in/bWF

12600 Bradway Ct. Henrico, VA 23233

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