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.

City of Harrisonburg Installs Rainwater Harvesting System

Harrisonburg gets an average of 36 inches of rain every year, and Rockingham County has been promoting rainwater harvesting for years by selling rain barrels at deep discounts. The City of Harrisonburg decided to also capitalize on this eco-friendly water gathering system by installing a 6,000 gallon rainwater harvesting system...

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Are Buyers Demanding New Homes in the Harrisonburg Area?

Realtor Magazine just published an article titled “Buyer Demand Grows for New Homes.” In it, they explained that new-home sales are on the rise, and that inventory for new construction is dwindling on a national level. This got us thinking about the new-home market in Harrisonburg. There are currently 47...

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7 Reasons Why Harrisonburg Is A Great Place To Live

CNN Money just published their Top 25 Best Places To Live, and that list did not include Harrisonburg, Virginia. Regardless of what CNN thinks, we believe Harrisonburg is a great place to live, and here are 7 reasons why: Location. Harrisonburg is situated in the center of the beautiful Shenandoah...

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Harrisonburg Area Real Estate Market Report: July 2012

This summer’s weather has been sort of typical in that we’ve accumulated a lot of rainfall, but it has also been sort of atypical in that we’ve experienced a plethora of nasty storms. Some might think that this would put a kink in the local real estate market, but we...

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