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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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A new website was launched this month (July 2009) with the goal of providing quality real estate news to residents of the Shenandoah Valley. This website was put together by builders and Realtors® in the area. It will provide quarterly statistical reports from government and industry sources, timely news stories, and analysis about the economic [...]

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The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) has launched a radio show that airs throughout many parts of the country. It is also available online, which is a plus for anyone with internet access! The show is called Real Estate Today, and you can start listening now at www.retradio.com.
This show provides consumers with valuable information regarding [...]

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If you own your own home, you know that there is always a to-do list of home improvements, whether it is of small projects like cleaning the windows or painting baseboards, or of large projects like building a deck or remodeling your master bath. In any case, many homeowners are now rolling up their sleeves [...]

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Notice something different about the right side of our blog? We’ve added a new section called “Find Us Elsewhere,” which allows our faithful readers to:

Follow us on Twitter
Become a fan of our team on Facebook
Promote our blog on Technorati
Link to our Zillow profile — and yes, we do like to think of ourselves as local [...]

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Real estate taxes are due June 5th, which is just around the corner! Now residents of the City of Harrisonburg can pay their taxes online with a credit card. Residents can also pay their water bill online. This will help city officials streamline their paperwork process, and will also save residents a bit of money [...]

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The Harrisonburg Homes Team has been extremely busy these last couple of months — with new listings, more buyer clients, and lots of behind-the-scenes action. Specifically, we’ve been launching a cool new widget for our web site: CHAT! So, if you ever have any questions, comments, concerns, or would just like to chat with someone, [...]

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When I first moved to Harrisonburg almost 5 years ago, it was confusing! I had moved from the West Coast and was used to roads being laid out like grids, I hadn’t lived in a college town as a “townie,” and I was still on the job hunt. It was difficult because I wasn’t used [...]

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One of the first things I learned about the Harrisonburg area when I moved here in 2004 was that early Spring planting will likely turn out to be a waste of time and money. It is very important to wait for the last frost before planting your new Spring plants. With weather like today, though, [...]

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I just came across this awesome tool called WalkScore, which allows you to enter your address (or the address of a home you might be interested in purchasing) to find out that home’s Walk Score. It maps out different places near the address you input and tells you how far away it is. It then [...]

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