Posted on January 5th, 2012
Buying and Selling Real Estate: Ten Tips by Marshall Colt
Real estate is changing hands in ways that make headlines.
Whether you're a buyer or seller, here are some tips to help you
make the best deal.
BUYING:
So you want to buy a house? In this market? Are you nuts?
Actually, it depends on where you are. You could be very shrewd
right now if you pick the right spot, the right pricing trend
and bid aggressively. It requires homework, homework, homework.
Example: My wife scoured a market, ...
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Posted on December 31st, 2011
If you live in Scotland and are thinking about
buying your
council house or flat it might be worth looking into it now.
Recent changes in legislation are limiting the opportunities of
those wishing to
buy their home and rumours predict that
the
Right to Buy scheme could be abolished in the very
near future.
Introduced in the 1980s the
Righ
t to Buy scheme achieved its goal and was successful in
offering tens of thousands of
council tenants the
opportunity of owning their
own home. In a survey ...
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Posted on December 23rd, 2011
Women are fabulous! They are resourceful, determined, complex,
resilient, & compassionate. They are able to endure pregnancy,
childbirth, child-raising, heartbreak, husband-raising, being
the career women, and running the household (housecleaning, bill
paying, activities coordinator, sexy vixen, hostess, etc, etc.).
Learn how successful women make it all happen, while looking,
feeling and being fabulous.
Make more time for yourself. You need to invest time in
yourself in order for you to be ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on December 22nd, 2011
Alas, such an agreement is meaningless. We cannot (yet) measure
sadness, quantify it, crystallize it, access it in any way from
the outside. We are totally and absolutely reliant on your
introspection and my introspection. There is no way anyone can
prove that my "sadness" is even remotely similar to your
sadness. I may be feeling or experiencing something that you
might find hilarious and not sad at all. Still, I call it
"sadness" and I empathize with you.
This would not have been that grave ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on December 17th, 2011
An Alternative to Nazism
By Punkerslut
Introduction
When speaking of Nazism, and the ranks that have existed under
the ideas of anti-Semitism, one typically also includes others,
such as the Ku Klux Klan, White Pride militants, the
"Creativity" Movement, among other groups that are of a
nationalist and racialist opinion. When I speak of Nazism, I am
referring to those who have a particular anti-Semitism and have
organized themselves into this movement. While the original
National Socialist ...
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- Filed under News and Society
Posted on December 12th, 2011
What is the New Age Movement? It is similar to New Age
Spirituality, but different enough to warrant its own
definition. The New Age Movement is a belief that the human race
is all one. It is not about equality nor diversity. It is the
idea that your gender, age, religion, race, nor sexual
orientation makes you better or worse then anyone else. The New
Age Movement is moving away from the US against THEM mentality.
It is inclusive, open, detached from labels, and above all else,
it's based in ...
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- Filed under News and Society
Posted on October 27th, 2011
It is been over four years that General Musharaf is been in
power. Three years with a naked military regime and the last one
year with a so-called democratic government and he as a
president. General Musharaf is a lucky military dictator who
realised the changed world situation after 11th September 2001
so he changed his policies overnight to become a partner of
American imperialism in the "fight against terrorism". He, at
least in words, changed his life time support to ...
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Posted on October 22nd, 2011
The United States is one of the last remaining land empires.
That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly
surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the
Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the
disenfranchised and the dispossessed and by their self-appointed
delegates, the intelligentsia.
Yet, even by historical standards, America seems to be provoking
blanket repulsion.
The Pew Research Center published last December a report titled
"What the World ...
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- Filed under News and Society
Posted on October 17th, 2011
A Romantic Tale About An Unromantic Hero
By Punkerslut
There was once a man who did not understand society. And when I
speak of this man, who regards society as an unfathomable
monster, understand that I am universally speaking of every
individual thinker. But there was one particular man, one man
among them, who did not understand society. And what separates
him from the other individual thinkers was his unavowed lust for
love, his desire for affection, and his outright honesty in it.
He was, ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on October 6th, 2011
A Whisper to a Friend
By Punkerslut
It seemed improbable that I would come to be their ally. He was
arrogant but intelligent, vulgar but precise. In his character,
there were to be found the vices that I once exhibiting years
ago. As I tried with focus to eliminate these attributes in
myself, I tried to develop my complimentary traits. I believed
that the greatest social change that can come to a society will
come from those who are patient, willing, and intelligent. No
advancement of ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on September 26th, 2011
Have you ever felt blocked, stuck in a rut? Like part of you
wants to change, grow, or move forward with something, but
another part of you seems to be standing in the way? And no
matter how you try, it seems you are unable to make a
difference?
Being blocked can become a vicious cycle because the longer you
are blocked, the more difficult it becomes to believe in
yourself.
When you encounter a block in your life, what you are facing is
actually the doorway to the next stage in your soul's ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on September 17th, 2011
One of the harsh little realities of pursuing a dream is that
sooner or later, you're going to have to do some stuff you don't
like very much. It's just plain inevitable. Enter
procrastination. Dread. Meltdown. Complete inertia.
But the prospect of doing the tough stuff doesn't have to stop
you cold. To that end, I've been teasing out some different ways
you can keep going. Here are a few of my favorites:
*Play music. I learned this when I started running, or 'jogging'
as we called it back in ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on September 14th, 2011
Hello! Happy new year. May you live a long healthy life and
prosper.
According to a study by US Dept. of Health & Human Services, 96%
of Americans never achieve financial independence. They end up
depending on charity, welfare, family, or are forced to keep
working past their retirement age.
According to the IRS, 85% of the people reaching age 65 years
don't have even $200 in their bank accounts! US Census Bureau
says that 97% of Americans never realize their dreams and
desires in life, and ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on September 10th, 2011
Towards the end of April, I began to work with another charity
called AgeConcern - this time raising money for the elderly in
need as I took up the opportunity of a lifetime and a lifetime
goal - swimming in the clouds.
An early morning journey from Harrow to Chatteris took just over
an hour and we arrived at the North London Parachute Centre
right on schedule. I went to the registration trailer and signed
up. Half an hour later, we had some training and watched a video
that showed the ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on September 2nd, 2011
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
--John Lennon
I just got back from a business trip to the East Coast. While I
was away several hundred email messages accumulated, in addition
to a tall stack of postal mail and a full voice mail box. Had I
been here to respond to all of it as it came in, I would have
spent much more time doing so. When faced with the massive
volume, I became much more efficient. I asked myself, "What's
most important?" And my clarity and focus were ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on August 31st, 2011
Say What? Pay A Buck!©
For four years, I served as a vice president for a Dallas based
marketing and advertising firm. One of my responsibilities was
to teach monthly sales training classes with up to 50 students
at a time. Our product was very, very expensive, and by no means
an easy sale. The clients were very particular, as they were
owners of large companies accustomed to doing business with
salespeople with a highly skilled level of communication.
During our monthly training sessions, one ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on August 28th, 2011
Anytime employers are asked about the skills they value most in
employees, it's always in the top five. Senior managers and
executives frequently cite it as one of the keys to their
achievements. Business coaches, leadership development
specialists and peak performance experts say it's essential to
success. 'It' is the ability to communicate ideas clearly and
persuasively. Yet, it's often one of the most overlooked areas
of personal development. Despite the fact that we spend up to
60% of our ...
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- Filed under Self Improvement
Posted on August 19th, 2011
A PRISON PLANET:
I decreed my 'twin' into my life in early 1990. It is a story I
tell in other books but I think even Edward House would have a
hard time topping my gifts. She was the only woman with a brown
card in California when she sat on the Governor's Blue Ribbon
Panel on Prison Reform. A brown card allows you access to all
Penal System buildings. She had once been put in prison because
the FBI could not catch her Mafia bosses who had duped her and
many others in a Huntington Beach land ...
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Posted on August 8th, 2011
Walk into any home today and you are almost certain to find
something which has been purchased from a New Age outlet.
Crystals are of course everywhere. The Buddha himself may appear
in the home office, looking well-fed and smiling as he does duty
as a paperweight or mantelpiece decoration. Wind chimes may mark
the entrance to a room or may be heard jangling merrily in the
garden. The design of either the house or garden may well have
been inspired by the supposed minimalist principles of ...
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Posted on July 22nd, 2011
For, as we are increasingly aware, the structures of human life
in common are of different kinds, not only economic and
political, but also cultural and religious; all of them
condition human life, all of them can weaken or destroy it, and
all of them are capable of being impregnated by the Gospel and
of embodying a greater justice and charity. So it is worth
paying unflagging attention to the different aspects of the
contexts in which we find ourselves, lest we end up oblivious of
the changes ...
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