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RECENT BLOG POSTS
Do you remember how you felt when you did your taxes after you bought your first home? It was probably a great feeling with all those tax credits and tax breaks you received! Is owning a home really all that grand? Is it really worth it? Can homeowners really get "free money?" An Inman article wa...
09/12/2011
You may have heard about loan limits changing on FHA mortgages starting October 1st. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Shenandoah Valley — at least at this point — will not experience any changes in FHA loan limits. There is a full document on HUD’s website ...
09/12/2011
Fitch Ratings, a research and data analysis company headquartered in both New York and London, did some comprehensive studies on Rockingham County and gave an “AA” rating to our locale. This grade is second on the rating scale — from “AAA” to “D” — and means Rockingham County has very high credi...
09/09/2011
For the past few months, we’ve been reporting that the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County real estate market is on the verge of some positive movement. In July, we saw that most of the June contracts hadn’t closed yet, and that sales year-over-year were down 6%. Well, the August numbers are in, ...
09/09/2011
The other day I went to a Realtor Open House in our area. The listing agent sent advertisements about this open house stating that attending agents should leave their cards because there would be a cash drawing. I was going to attend this particular open house regardless because I have a client t...
10/14/2010
In most cases, when Mama used to say, "Use your words," she meant, "Don't swear." In this case, however, I am pointing out the importance of real estate agents to use correct spelling and grammar in every day life... blog posts, Facebook posts, emails, face-to-face conversations, etc. Our team re...
10/05/2010
At most times throughout the year, The Harrisonburg Homes Team has a lot of listings, so to keep up with our listings, we have made it easy for you to find out about updates, price reductions, new listings, and more! Click any number of the below links to see our current listings: A channel of ou...
09/27/2010
I recently watched an episode of Sesame Street with my toddler, and on it was a bird real estate agent, Freddy Flapman, doing business with Big Bird. The show was all about habitats, and this bird real estate agent was trying to sell Big Bird on moving to a different habitat than Sesame Street. W...
03/23/2010
Normally here on ActiveRain, we like to post about issues geared towards agents, since that is a large portion of the audience here -- for our local commentaries, statistics, and musings, go to Harrisonblog -- but this local tidbit couldn't go unpublished! For those of you who don't know all the ...
02/09/2010
It is amazing how relatively easy it is to get a real estate license. Okay, so there is a lot of studying and testing, but then what? When you pass, are you automatically qualified as a good agent? In a word... NO! Agents should have systems in place for gathering referrals, leads, forms to use (...
01/27/2010
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