Author Archives: Lisa Oates

About Lisa Oates

Lisa is the creative mind behind The Harrisonburg Homes Team, providing streamlined content management, quality authorship, and graphic design for Harrisonblog. She's passionate about blogging, enjoying life, and a good cup of coffee.

New Year. New Team Member. New Photos.

With the new year comes new changes… typical for us most years. But this year, we are not only updating our marketing strategies, we are also pleased to announce that Cathi Beighe has joined our team! And with a new team member on board, it was a great excuse to...

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New Park and Restaurant Coming To Dayton?

The Town of Dayton has been feverishly working on its image in recent months. We posted about their promotional video back in November, they launched a new town website, and now we’ve got some more news! Plans are moving forward to construct a new park on College Street and also...

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Harrisonburg Area Real Estate Market Report: November 2012

Can you believe 2012 is coming to a close already? We’re almost half-way through December, and soon we’ll be ringing in the new year! This year has been nice for the local real estate market. Perfect? Excellent? The Best? No. But nice, yes. Residential contracts have been strong throughout the...

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Existing Home Sales on the Rise, Locally and Nationally

If you are a fervent follower of this blog, you already know that residential real estate sales have been climbing this year compared to last, and that prices have risen slightly and remain stable. In fact, our latest Market Report showed a 9.0% increase in sales, and a 1.0% rise...

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Discovering Harrisonburg’s Suburbs: Dayton

We’ve mentioned Dayton several times before on Harrisonblog, but never really at an in-depth level. Located just a couple minutes southwest of the city, it is a wonderful, charming town with a population of about 1,200 folks, a plethora of locally owned shops and restaurants, a Cargill turkey plant, the...

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The 4th El Charro Location in Bridgewater

El Charro has long been an area favorite for Mexican cuisine and a relaxed, casual dining atmosphere. It has been so popular that owners (and brothers) Juan and Roy Gallardo decided to open a new location in Bridgewater. Last January, they purchased the old Hardee’s building on the corner of Main...

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