Low Unemployment, Low Foreclosure Rates in the Valley!

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...

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The Next Great Depression?

While the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been plummeting each day this week, I have found myself wondering if we are on the verge of of the next Great Depression. And I’ve heard the question increasingly asked by friends and colleagues. This article in today’s Wall Street Journal (“As Dire...

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Don’t try this at The Valley Mall…

Here’s an amazing (and pretty funny) article in Salon about a couple who actually moved into a new shopping mall that was built next to their neighborhood. They created a small apartment in some dead space at the mall, and lived there for months before getting caught. This piece is...

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Charted Territory

Remember Ross Perot from the 1992 presidential race? — he ended up getting more than 18% of the popular vote, which made him the most successful third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. My recollections of him are fuzzy, but one thing I do remember is that the guy LOVED...

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The Unbelievably Bad Real Estate Photos Hall of Fame

If I had to pick the most important factor in selling a home, it would be photography — hands down. (In this slow market, 2nd would be pricing.) 21st-century home buyers shop primarily on the internet, and the photos they see are what they use to rule a property in...

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