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Assistant needed!!

Preferably already a licensed REALTOR, but not necessary. Must have excellent technical skills, experience with Microsoft Publisher, web data entry…. Would love to have somebody with some FTP-uploading experience, but this is certainly not required; if you don’t know what FTP is, don’t worry about it. Desire and commitment to do things right the first time is an absolute imperative.

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Property taxes

“What is all the money going for?” the 60-year-old translator wondered last week. “I’m not seeing it in better services…. The biggest single reason for the tax increases is school spending, which is not surprising, since education has long dwarfed other items in local budgets.

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How not to run a business

I had the occasion to visit the Northridge branch of the University of Virginia Medical Center yesterday for an injury sustained Sunday in my soccer game…. Shown to the good doctor’s office about 2:20 – not bad, only five minutes tardy. The warm-up stalling act takes my blood pressure and temperature to ensure that my possibly broken toe had not affected anything else, then leaves, assuring me that she will be with me “shortly.”… I leave and return this morning at 8:25 because they don’t take their first appointments (I am not able to get one of those – wish they hadn’t told me I wasn’t special enough) until 8:30.

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Different markets, different strategies

Our market remains so strong and fast-moving that print media advertising is a “feel-good” measure that often is a small part of a marketing strategy designed to sell a home.  Many leads come from sign calls and many come from personal websites (jduncanrealestate.com), company sites (century21manley.com) many come from corporate sites (Century 21’s site)….  Other markets place much more value on sign calls as well as their weekly real estate magazine.Just goes to show that one must learn and adapt to one’s market….  Just goes to show that one must learn and adapt to one’s market.

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Gas prices

If gas prices stay at or near this level, does somebody out there have the time and knowledge to do some back-of-the-envelope math? … If gas prices stay at or near this level, does somebody out there have the time and knowledge to do some back-of-the-envelope math?

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