A personal connection makes the difference for military homebuyers

A personal connection between buyers and sellers sometimes can make the difference in negotiating a contract, even topping price considerations, as it did with a military family moving to Northern Virginia

Tiffany Bryson needed to move her family from Washington state in June because her husband, David, had been assigned to the Pentagon. He was serving as an operations officer on a ship in the Arabian Sea at the time, so she was house hunting on her own.