Your Greater Annapolis Area Realtor since 1994
Inducted to the RE/MAX International Hall of Fame in 2010
Let the rookies make their mistakes with someone else!

On Feb 15, 2012, with 18 years of experience as a real estate agent, I proudly opened Maryland Home Coach Realty. We are a locally owned business with a national reach. We know Maryland. We live and work here. We have the local market expertise to help you buy or sell a home. We have the national (and global) reach to effectively market your home to buyers around the world. We do all the things a large real estate company can do - the difference is that we specialize in the Maryland real estate market. We are headquartered in Maryland's capital - beautiful Annapolis. Who do you want helping you buy or sell real estate in Maryland? Do you want a local expert or a large company based in a different time zone?

I work with home buyers and sellers all over Maryland, and I specialize in the Greater Annapolis area, which includes Anne Arundel County, Howard County, Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Prince Georges County and Baltimore. I am a REALTOR®, but I'm more than just a real estate agent...I'm your real estate counselor. I consider it my job to give you advice and guidance through the entire process...you will never think of me as a pushy salesman! In fact, most of my business is referred to me by my past clients...people who trust me and want their friends and family to work with the best!

I've been a full-time licensed REALTOR® Since 1994. I am also a second-generation REALTOR®...and a home buyer and home seller! I've been around real estate a long time...long enough to know what works and what doesn't. Long enough to know that I must treat each client with the utmost respect...and if I do, my client will send me many more clients...keeping me busy and happy! Real estate is about more than selling homes...it's about you!

My real estate thoughts:

When is "Smart Growth" not so smart?

I live inside the city limits of Annapolis, Maryland.  During rush hour it can take me 10 to 15 minutes just to get from my neighborhood on to the main road leading out of town... and it's only going to get worse as 4,000 new condos and apartments fill up over the course of the next few years...  In my area it's become popular to complain about "greedy developers and builders" so I thought a letter to the editor from a builder that was published in The Capital was interesting...

The builder complained that they were unfairly getting bad publicity and that we really ought to be looking at our highly touted "Smart Growth" plan - a plan that has received a lot of attention and has been copied in many other locales...  Smart Growth restricts building to areas that are already highly developed - and keeps new building out of areas that are rural... It does sound great until you see the unintended consequences...

In the areas where growth has been permited, our schools are so overcrowded that the only new building permits being issued are for age-restricted communities - there are 6,000 new age-restricted homes being built in our modestly-sized county... and I am left wondering if we can possibly fill all these new homes and if this is the best use of all the land that is being destroyed for these new homes... Traffic congestion is a big problem and getting worse... and very little wooded areas are left standing...

In the areas where growth has NOT been permitted, residents do not have public water and sewer, roads and bridges are inadequate, and a general resentment has formed because area residents do not feel they are getting their fair share of the tax dollar at work for them.

Our bridges are not being upgraded despite the desperate need for more traffic lanes... the reason given by our governor is the "if you build it they will come" philosophy - in other words... he does not want to make it easier to access our less-developed areas because if we do, then those areas will become overdeveloped as well.  He thinks developing a ferry system is a much better alternative to more traffic lanes on a bridge... a laughable proposal at best and a serious waste of money and resources at worst...

My proposal is to limit development through the enforcement of building codes... Mr. Governor, if you feel our current building codes aren't sufficient to limit development then please come up with new codes... but in the mean time could you please get started on the long process of upgrading our bridges, highways and the extension of public sewer and water???  The ferries just aren't going to cut it...