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Curb appeal is the degree to which your home looks beautiful from the street. Does your home look clean? Is your landscaping ship-shape? Are your walkways swept? Is your carport uncluttered? It is essential to have great curb appeal when listing your home (and it is nice to have when you aren’t selling your home, [...]

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We, The Harrisonburg Homes Team, offers the best customized marketing plans for our home sellers in this area. And as if that wasn’t enough — we do like to stay ahead of the curve, you know — our brokerage, Kline May Realty, has given us even more marketing ammo. We are now able to offer [...]

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I just read an incredible article entitled “Why Home Prices May Keep Falling” published by the New York Times. It describes, in pretty good detail, why home prices fall, and fall slowly. The most interesting part of the article is when the author describes the points of view held by a buyer in a market [...]

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Video tours of homes are the hot new thing in real estate marketing, and in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County are an extremely new way to market properties. We have been working on getting video tours up and running on our residential listings for about a year. We finally have it off the ground, and they [...]

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We recently upgraded our Trulia membership to Pro status. (See “We Just Upped Our Level of Service to Sellers.”) One great thing about this upgrade is that Trulia is constantly working hard to provide us with better tools to promote our listings, which in turn gives our sellers better web presence for their listings.
Trulia just [...]

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Sellers — or homeowners looking to receive top dollar when you’re ready to sell — is your home improvement to-do list overwhelming? Now you can prioritize your to-do list! HomeGain has a helpful calculator on their web site to assist you in determining which home improvement projects to work on to bring you the highest [...]

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Our team is proud to announce that we are now Trulia Pro members, which means that we can do a lot more for our listings on Trulia. We’ve been blogging and making our presence known on Trulia for some time now, but we have just stepped up our marketing efforts yet again by signing up [...]

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If you’ve passed by any Kline May Realty listings, you’ve likely seen a separate sign in the yard with a phone number on it called a “Home Voice Number.” It can be a great tool for sellers.
With each listing, the listing agent can opt in to have a Home Voice Number set up for that [...]

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In the current economic climate, many home buyers and sellers are trying to cut costs by avoiding using a REALTOR. Here are 5 good reasons why using a REALTOR is a great idea:

We live and breathe real estate. We understand the local real estate market. It is our passion, our focus, our livelihood! We work [...]

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Okay. So now that you have your home in ship-shape condition and ready for the market (see “Part One” of this series to catch up), it is imperative that you keep your home spic-n-span for showings! It will be a lot easier in the long run if you keep your home clean and sparkling on [...]

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