Jason Stewart's Blog

1. Slater’s 50/50. Slaters 50/50 is the spot to hit when looking for a great sports bar atmosphere that’s still family friendly. For a reasonable price guests can design their own gourmet burger or order one of their already stacked ones. Ask the friendly staff for recommendations and do not forg...

    If you give them a chance, people will try to manipulate you.  It’s a sad fact of life.  And since knowledge is the best defense, here are twelve techniques they will likely try to use to pull a quick one on you.         Targeting your lack of time and attention. Someone purposely convinces ...

Selling your home - especially if you've never done it before - can be surprisingly time-consuming and emotionally challenging. Strangers will come into your home and poke around in your closets and cabinets. They will criticize a place that has probably become more than just four walls and a roo...

The required condition of living in a busy city makes condos appear in the scene and become an ideal place to live in. Living in a condominium provides you the pleasure of viewing the soaring home and commercial buildings as well as the lovely bright city lights. Getting a condo unit of your own...

With millions of sites on the internet, It's easy to disappear. Your domain name is how people get to your site. Let's look at the important considerations in choosing a domain name. 1. It shouldn't be your name. Though you should own the real estate domain name for your name, that shouldn't be ...

1) Poor Drainage Around the Exterior of the Home A house should have positive drainage around the foundation, meaning the ground and all downspouts slope away from the home. Watch out for hard surfaces, for example a concrete patio meeting a concrete foundation wall. If the joint between the two...

When you work in commercial real estate sales and leasing, you will frequently deal with landlords in negotiations relating to prices, rentals, and occupancy. Invariably many landlords struggle to accept the reality of the local property market. Over time they have a perception of what they paid ...

Your boss just assigned a new project to you and you can't imagine how you'll get it done. Can you say no to your boss, though? You can if your reasons are good. Now, you have to decide if they are. First here are some questions you can ask yourself to help you decide. Following that are bad reas...

Identity theft complaints soared to 380,000 during 2002. Following these simple credit security tips from the Federal Trade Commission can help protect you, your identity and your money. Cases of stolen identity accounted for 43 percent of the complaints lodged in the FTC's Consumer Sentinel dat...

It's really quite easy to recruit new real estate agents. When a broker who loves the business talks with a potential agent candidate, you can feel the excitement building. From being their own boss to growing a lifelong business, there are so many reasons to choose a real estate career. Be your ...