Harrisonblog

Remember to “Fall Back” this Sunday. Set your clocks back an hour, and get an extra hour of sleep this weekend! If you’ve ever wondered why we go through the process of Daylight Savings, check out this very cool web exhibit. This site lists a plethora of reasons, plus some other interesting information, like controversies [...]

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A friend of mine — a local high school student — emailed me earlier today with interesting information about a project she and her classmates are currently working on. Her Environmental Science class is giving away trees to the community. They have gathered seeds from their campus and have grown these trees in their nursery, [...]

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This morning’s edition of the Daily News-Record ran a story reporting that the unemployment rate in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham area has dropped to 3.5%, which is down from 4.2% a month earlier. More good news on the stability of our local economy can be found on this very cool web resource provided by the Federal Reserve [...]

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To give you a small glimpse of the real estate market in our area, check out the statistics below. Keep in mind that real estate is a cyclical business throughout the year. The Spring and Summer months are generally more active in terms of sales and new listings than Fall and Winter are. We are [...]

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Before putting your home on the market, it is important to get your house ready to sell. (After putting your house on the market, we’ll give you some tips for keeping your house sparkling for showings. That will be part two.) Run down this list of items to prepare your home for the market, and [...]

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This is an important subject these days. One way to decrease your environmental footprint is to live close enough to common retail shops, restaurants, and gathering places so that you can walk or ride your bicycle (thus, not expending gas fumes into the air by leaving the car at home) to said locations. In Harrisonburg, [...]

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The real estate market is seeing the “house swap” as an increasingly popular trend this year. Back in the day, vacationers would frequently swap houses for a week or two (like in the movie The Holiday from a couple years ago), but this is 2008. The economy has changed. Why not trade in your house [...]

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My husband and I took a nice roadtrip to South Carolina this weekend. I caught myself reading every billboard we passed. Some were good, some were quite frankly ridiculous.
There was a series of billboards in Charlotte (I think) about real estate. They were simple and to the point, and I loved them. One in particular [...]

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My husband and I just recently moved to one of Harrisonburg’s suburbs — Bridgewater. Bridgewater is a quaint and cozy little town with a population of about 5,000. (In other words, most people know most people in this town.) The number one reason we decided to move to Bridgewater was to be closer to my [...]

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As real estate agents, we deal with many different types of businesses at different times throughout the process of working with clients to (1) find them their dream home and write a contract on it, or (2) sell their home for the best price we can get them. Because we work day in and day [...]

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