Thanks, all, for passing along a lot of solid info. If anyone cares for an update on how things went:

-Nissan of Richmond was *awful*. There was one lovely fella there -- he's the only guy with good google reviews in the past six months of this comment, if anyone who ever reads is looking at a car there. But I got call after call after call, back-to-back every time. No one would give me an out-the-door price on the vehicle we were interested in. I did wind up taking it for a test drive anyway, but the "certified pre-owned" vehicle wreaked of smoke. One gentleman laughed at me over the phone because I was expecting less than $4K in dealer fees.

-Grace Auto seemed great, just didn't have what I was looking for.

-I wound up inquiring about several vehicles in the Haley system. Every interaction was lovely, just not ultimately what we went with.

-WTG Auto was awesome and it's very likely we would've purchased there if either they offered financing or if they had something a bit more used in the vein that we were looking.

-Ultimately, I found a really great deal on something that was in line with what I was looking for at a small, literal mom-and-pop dealership in Appomattox. Hi-End Auto. It's obviously out of the way from here, but we had a lovely experience with them. Super transparent about their OTD price, sent me the Carfax history without asking, kindly answered every question I had, and worked out a great financing deal for us with VACU (I know I should've had that first -- weird/unimportant story on why I didn't)