Ed Schneider

Ed Schneider born, raised and schooled in New York City, moved to Washington DC after college and has lived in the heart of the city ever since. He has a degree in fine arts, a passion for art, architecture and design, and an enormous appreciation for DC’s distinctive neighborhoods.
 
Ed believes a home is an emotional, spiritual and personal space, so he tries to serve as a personal shopper for his buyer clients, tracking down and showing them only properties that best suit their personalities and needs so they don’t waste their time scouting places that clearly do not suit them. And for his sellers, he works up a well-focused price analysis and marketing plan, then helps them fashion their properties into the kind of spaces where others might find that special vibe.
 
Since information is power, he arms all his clients with the critical facts they need to make good decisions and shepherds them through the settlement process with humor and grace to make what can be a very trying period go as smoothly as possible.
 
Ed began his professional life as a graphic designer and ran his own design consulting firm for several years. After a five-year stint art directing The Washington Post Magazine, he set up and operated a successful advertising agency where he honed his marketing and sales skills by producing award-winning advertising for national and local businesses. In addition, he wrote occasional travel articles about some of the world’s most exotic locales – like Cleveland, Ocean City and Hershey, Pennsylvania. He also wrote scripts for feature films, an exercise that led him to start a literary agency that sold original screenplays to reluctant Hollywood producers and studio big-wigs.
 
He lives with his wife in an Adams Morgan townhouse which their cat graciously allows them to share, provided they abide by her rules. Rule 1. Open cans. Rule 2. Change litter. Rule 3. Provide affection on demand. They work valiantly to live up to her expectations.

Life highlights:
• At six, won roller skates in a coloring contest. Made major life decision to become a painter. (A house painter.)
 
• At fifteen, won a cheap wristwatch doing the lindy hop in TV dance contest. Watch later stolen by losing couple. Gave up dream of ballroom dancing.
 
• Taught creative writing at American University. Discovered adjunct pay stinks.
 
• Climbed ruins of Venetian fort and former leper colony on islet of Spinalonga off Crete. Spectacular view of Aegean.
 
• Stood by, baffled, as a Greek car rental clerk attempted to explain the workings of an incomprehensible gear shift that protruded from dashboard of Citroen “garbage can.” Rented a Fiat instead.
 
• Got stuck on a hotel balcony in Nice with only a glass of Champagne and a packet of peanuts. Vowed never to close a sliding door again.
 
• Snowmobiled through Yellowstone. Ate a sandwich by Old Faithful while Bison strolled by.
 
• Plowed through heavy surf on a Zodiac boat to explore caves at Na Pali coast on Kawai. Thrilling.
 
• Motored on a small boat in heavy storm to see puffins on the Treshnish Islands off northwest coast of Scotland. Puffins are cute.
 
• Sailed on a three-masted schooner to the Galapagos Islands. Snorkeled with sea lions and green sea turtles. Iguanas are not cute.
 
• Became extremely minor producer on a feature film set in New Mexico. Movie will be shot in Scotland(?!). Oh, well, another chance to see puffins.

Phone: 202.337.0501, Ext. 306  | Mobile: 202.277.9499 (preferred) | Ed@DCLiving.com