In the Harrisonburg Rockingham Association of Realtors MLS, your house must be off the market for 120 days before the "days on market" will start counting at zero again.

If you are planning to take your house off the market for the winter, but you wait until December 15 to do so, your "days on market" will still be accumulating if you put the house back on the market in early March.

Thus, if you want to give your house a break from the market, fulfill the 120 day requirement, and then be ready to list again in early March, you should only keep your house on the market through the end of October.

AND....take the time during those 120 days of being off the market to optimize price, condition and marketing....

• Let's meet to chat about the value of your house in the current market so that we can be priced well for the Spring market (pending any changes in the market between now and then).
   
  
• Let's walk through your house together to determine if there are any small (or large) projects you could be taking care of during "the off season" to have your house shine when it comes back on the market in the Spring.
   
  
• Let's review our marketing plans to make sure we have a strategy in place for exposing your property to the broadest possible pool of potential buyers.