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If you’ve ever met Brant Suter, proud member of The Harrisonburg Homes Team, you know that he is charismatic, fun, exciting, and professional. To prove that he puts a high value on providing quality customer service to his clients, he earned a perfect score on his customer satisfaction surveys in 2009!
What is a customer satisfaction [...]

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With the development of the new East Rockingham High School coming to completion, Rockingham County Schools are undergoing some redistricting. At this time, no redistricting changes are planned for the elementary or middle schools for the 2010 - 2011 school year, but the high schools will experience some changes.
East Rockingham High School

All 9th-12th grade students [...]

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Both the City of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County have reassessed properties in their respective areas, which means your property value may have changed. When your notice of reassessment comes, if you think the City or the County are way off in their reassessment, know that there are ways to appeal your reassessment. Depending on whether [...]

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The Farmers Insurance Group has again published their Top Safest Places to Live list, and among small towns in the United States, Harrisonburg ranks #9 out of 20! Just one more reason to relocate to our town in the Shenandoah Valley.
Other towns in close proximity that are ranked include:

Lynchburg: #6 among mid-sized cities
Charlottesville: #16 among [...]

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According to the Virginia Constitution, all real estate must be assessed at market value, so Rockingham County is performing reassessments again. The last reassessment occurred in 2005, and was effective January 1, 2006. Now that 2010 is here, its time for another round!
County officials actually began reassessing properties about 18 months ago. All sales since [...]

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In our last post, we informed you how to claim your first time home buyer tax credit. For those of you who own (or are thinking about purchasing) land in Rockingham County, there may be some tax benefits for you, depending on how you use your land.
If you meet these criteria, you may qualify for [...]

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Tax season is here, and will be gone before we know it! If you used the first time home buyer tax credit in 2009, or are thinking about claiming the extended tax credit this year, you’ll want IRS Form 5405. [Click here to download the form.] For a full set of details about the tax [...]

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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has a loan program for rehabilitating homes and communities called the 203(k) Loan Program. Better known as a “Rehab Loan.” This program is meant to encourage new home ownership, rehabilitation of neighborhoods, and communities.
One advantage of this program is that “buyers can focus on the location and floorplan instead of [...]

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Every week, our team sends out a Weekly Update with new listings, among other things, to those who subscribe to it. (Note: If you’d like to subscribe, visit our website and go to the Weekly Market Update!) It is interesting to see just how many new listings go on the market over specific time periods, [...]

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When folks relocate to Harrisonburg, one of their first concerns is what the tax rates are in the area. Our Relocation Guide is chock full of information just like this, but as a refresher, here is a snapshot of the tax rates in the area:

HARRISONBURG

Real Estate:
59 cents per $100 of assessed value

Personal Property:
$3 per $100 [...]

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