What value do you think that an ex-agent, now employed in some other industry, has to offer when they represent themselves by owner? We've been loosing 100+ members in our board annually since 2005. that is 20% of our membership. Some exiting agents want to sell their home by owner. If you we
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11/28/2007
Now that the world has changed my seller's are getting socked with more bad news. Credit card companies have raised interest rates. The companies don't write a letter to let them know. The seller (or buyer) gets their statement and suddenly the minimum payment is $100 more than it was last mon
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11/27/2007
This is our unscientific test of the Tom Tom and the Garmin. We took 5 trips across Florida by SUV with friends. To make our "control" group we decided to go with the Tom Tom directions if the Garmin and Tom Tom were to disagree. Then to simplify it further we named Tom Tom "Suzy" and Garmin "
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11/23/2007
This is the greatest travel tool ever invented! Check out http://www.iExplore.com/. There are over 3,000 prescreened trips and cultural expeditions. It's so simple! All you do is click and choose and your search is narrowed down to exactly what you want. 1. Chose a Region2. Choose a Country
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11/23/2007
We all know that the 1997 tax code granted single homeowners a $250,000 and married couples a $500,000 deduction on their primary residence as long as they lived in the home 2 out of the last 5 years. If there has been an event that a homeowner did not anticipate before buying and occuping the r
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11/23/2007
Got a parking ticket that you shouldn't have gotten? Want a free Get Out Of Jail card? Wish you "knew" someone that could help you? Glen Bolofsky can help you for less than $60 bucks. Visit http://www.parkingticket.com/ to find out how to appeal a ticket. Procedural slip ups can invalidate a
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11/23/2007
You can spend $110 a year to by LifeLock's ID security or you can do what they do for free. LifeLock puts a fraud alert on your credit reports and renews them every 90 days. LifeLock also "opts out" of preapproved credit offers from the credit agencies. The last thing is they contact the Direc
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11/23/2007
Do you think there is money out there waiting for you to find it? There are lots of places to go to check! The US Treasury Department and the IRS track money that has been unclaimed. Call the IRS Hotline at (800) 829-1040. Also check out the National Taxpayers Union's tax-refund finder http:/
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11/23/2007
I have a seller who inherited a property after her father passed on. Her father retained a life estate and deeded the property to her 3 years ago. He married a woman 2 years later. Does the new wife have a life estate to the property? No! The Life Estate ends with death.Maya ThomasREALTOR®(3
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11/13/2007
I called to talk to a friend and she answered the phone sobbing. Her fiancé and business partner was in a motorcycle accident 4 blocks from their home in Lakeland Florida. The wedding was planned for Thanksgiving weekend just a week from now. My friend asked me if I know a smart real estate la
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11/13/2007
