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Survey Finds Angst-Strained Wretches in
the Fourth Estate (washingtonpost.com)
Survey Finds Angst-Strained Wretches in
the Fourth Estate (washingtonpost.com)
05/25/2004 06:57 AMSurvey Finds Angst-Strained Wretches in the Fourth Estate
(washingtonpost.com) .. Even HOWIE THE HAIR SHIRT ADMITS THE BIZ IS
BIASED .. Howie's continual assertions ..
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Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™
Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™
06/24/2005 03:14 PMJust Real Estate Listings™, an online real estate advertising company,
has launched a new web site offering the Realtor™ community a free way
to advertise real estate properties on the internet. This service
also includes free data integration services which eliminates the need
for users to manually enter data. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]
Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info
Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info
03/14/2005 04:41 PMThe most comprehensive source for Santa Barbara, Montecito, & Goleta
Real Estate and general information is now available at
www.realestatesantabarbara.info - the website was created and
developed by Paul Luoma, a sales-associate with Century 21 A Hart
Realty, Inc. [PRWEB Mar 13, 2005]
Three Estate Must-Dos
Three Estate Must-Dos
01/16/2004 01:03 PMDo your family a favor: Don't leave these important "to do" items
unattended.
The Internet As The Fifth Estate?
The Internet As The Fifth Estate?
04/14/2004 01:05 PMThere's a constant (and, it seems, incredibly boring) debate about
"blogs vs. journalism" - which seems sort of pointless to me. It's
not as if this is a zero sum game where there's room for only one.
The two work off of each other, and often the lines are quite blurry
between them. Trying to set up a specific "us vs. them" dichotomy is
only an attempt (by everyone who bothers) to get more publicity.
Still, I found it interesting to find an
editorial in a large newspaper suggesting that the internet has
become "the fifth estate." It's not often you see the mainstream
press admitting that anyone outside of themselves has a place in their
world at all.
Don't Bet on Real Estate
Don't Bet on Real Estate
03/29/2005 09:06 AMThere are good and not-so-good ways to invest in real estate.
"Real estate"
"Real estate"
04/08/2005 10:10 AMWhy Estate Planning Matters
Why Estate Planning Matters
05/03/2004 08:17 AMNeglect estate planning and you may leave your loved ones a lot of
headaches, and less money.
DTI crackdown on estate agents
DTI crackdown on estate agents
07/22/2004 04:21 AMUK estate agents will have to join an industry-wide ombudsman scheme,
the Department of Trade & Industry says.
P. Diddy Buys $10M N.J. Estate (AP)
P. Diddy Buys $10M N.J. Estate (AP)
07/30/2004 01:33 PMAP - Hip-hop star and entrepreneur Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has purchased
a 21-room Bergen County mansion for more than $10 million, a
publicist for the seller told The Associated Press.
Real Estate & REITs
Real Estate & REITs
02/17/2004 10:13 AMReitnut picks his 'bluest of the blue" for 2004.
The Real Estate Game
The Real Estate Game
09/08/2004 08:51 AMSome of you have purchased homes before, so you know a bit about how
the process works: Mortgage Approval, Appraisals, Surveys, Title
Searches, Purchase Agreements, Stipulation Sheets, Closing, Whining,
Bickering, Signing 1,000,000 pages, Moving, blah blah blah... Even
though it's a scary thought when you first start, and you've probably
heard enough horror stories to not want to go through the process,
it's really not that bad. It's actually pretty easy if you take a
little time and learn about it. It makes more sense than most college
curricula, and it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Literally
anyone can play the game if they have a dedication to making things
happen. This is an introduction to real estate investing using my 4
years of personal experience as a guide. While all of my experience
has been on the U.S. side of the pond, I'm sure enough of this
information will apply to everyone to make it worthwhile. (This was
originally submitted as a diary at the other site)
Matthew Yglesias: Estate Tax
Matthew Yglesias: Estate Tax
04/15/2005 03:11 PMSpeaking of which, fuck the small businessman ..
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Real Estate Commissions are Too Low
Real Estate Commissions are Too Low
06/22/2005 02:23 AMPeople who sell $1 million condos often complain that paying a 6
percent standard (read "fixed by collusion" among realtors) commission
is too much ($60,000 for what might only be a few days of work).
Economists who have studied the real estate market, however, find that
in some ways the commission is too low because realtors don't work
very hard to sell clients' houses compared to their personal
houses. In other words they sell a customer's house relatively
cheap so that it will sell quickly rather than work for many weeks to
get the best price and 6% of the extra.
Why haven't we seen anyone propose a commission structure that says
the realtor gets a 25% commission... but only on the amount above the
assessed value of the property? Your typical $1 million NY or
Boston apartment is assessed at maybe $850,000 and could be sold for
that price with almost no effort in a few days so the commission paid
on such a sale shouldn't be more than $1000. If a realtor could
sell the place for $1.2 million via clever marketing, however, she
should be entitled to a fat commission.
Fourth Degree
Fourth Degree
07/29/2004 11:26 AMIf I write about
coverage
of the
coverage of the
bloggers' reporting at
the Democratic National Convention, is that meta-meta-meta journalism?
Fourth of July
Fourth of July
07/05/2004 11:08 AMFor the fourth I went down to my brother's boat for a day of fun and
sun. Except we didn't really have sun, but it...
Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs
Real Estate Inv. Trusts: REITs
08/19/2004 12:57 PMIs real estate a good hedge against inflation?
copyright abuser: the joyce estate
copyright abuser: the joyce estate
02/15/2004 11:50 AMThis
story
about the Joyce Estate telling the Irish government that it will sue
if there are "any public readings of Joyce's works during the festival
commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday" is just the latest
example of the copyright abuse of the Joyce estate. Australia, you've
got twenty more years of this silliness to contend with.
Finding a Real Estate Agent
Finding a Real Estate Agent
01/09/2004 09:46 PM[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm
going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.]
Over the last several weeks I've spent quite a bit of time on-line
looking at the Bay Area housing market. Looking at MLS listings,
realtor sites, craigslist, and so on. I've been in touch with a few
sellers. There are a few things I've learned so far: Many town house
and condo properties are...
Tolkien estate wins net ruling
Tolkien estate wins net ruling
01/16/2004 11:02 AMJRR Tolkien's estate wins a cyber-squatting case to stop the Oxford
author's name being used as a web address.
Problems with estate planning in the
digital age?
Problems with estate planning in the
digital age?
12/24/2004 12:10 PMA family's fight to access a deceased Marine's e-mail highlights a
conflict between property laws and online terms of service provisions.
Should account access rights be transferable along with the deceased's
estate?
Accidental real estate porn
Accidental real estate porn
08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Look closely at the third photo from the bottom on this realtor's
website promoting a home for sale. Either the snapshot-taker failed
to notice two dogs humping
sur l'herbe, or this is an example
of highly sophisticated subliminal advertising strategies in the real
estate industry.
Link (
Thanks,
Manero)
Real Estate Management Software 1.0
Real Estate Management Software 1.0
09/14/2004 02:37 PMA real estate listings management system.
Real estate Web sites rock
Real estate Web sites rock
02/10/2004 08:10 PMThe 10 highest ranked Web sites in the brand ratings report in order
were Yahoo!, MSN, Microsoft, AOL, Google, eBay, Amazon, Lycos Network,
About Network and ...
Real Estate Management Software 1.19
Real Estate Management Software 1.19
01/03/2005 07:56 AMA real estate listings management system.
Gas leak closes industrial estate
Gas leak closes industrial estate
08/18/2004 06:39 AMFirms are evacuated and an industrial estate closed after a gas leak
in Swansea.
Kmart: Retail or Real Estate?
Kmart: Retail or Real Estate?
08/16/2004 02:21 PMLately, the company's retail operation has been lagging behind sales
of its locations.
M M M My Sharona... M M M My real estate
agent?
M M M My Sharona... M M M My real estate
agent?
03/22/2005 04:37 PM
M M M My Sharona... M M M My
real estate agent? Sharona Alperin was only 17 when she inspired
the
Knack's 1979 hit single
"
;My Sharona." Now she sells real estate in
Los Angeles...On
the flip side of lyrical fame, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer inspired
another set of lyrics in 1979 -- the
Boomtown Rats' haunting
song
"I
Don't Like Mondays" -- which chronicled
Spencer's slaying
of eight school children and a principal at an elementary school
near her San Diego, CA-area home. It's
not an urban
legend: Spencer told a reporter who called her during the 6 1/2
-hour
siege that she opened fire because, "I don't like Mondays. This
livens up the day." Spencer reminds us today that
schoolya
rd shootings are not a
new phenomenon. Now 42,
Brenda is serving a 25-year sentence and is
up for parole soon...
On the iPod and shortsightedness on the
Microsoft estate...
On the iPod and shortsightedness on the
Microsoft estate...
02/05/2005 10:08 PMI have enormous performance anxiety at the moment. The world's
turned to look this way for a few scant moments and everyone else is
rising to the challenge and I'm just hiding. And it looks like I'm not
the only one. Apparently, loads of Microsoft employees are using iPods instead of
Microsoft-related products. You may not see the direct connection
here, but everyone's looking at the digital music arena at the moment,
Apple are doing tremendously well in it and there's absolutely no
reason why Microsoft couldn't just look at their competitors, pull
themselves together and go out there and try and create something even
greater. It's not like they're short of cash or bright people. But
instead they're burying their heads and pretending it isn't
happening:
An internal e-mail circular sent to several senior
managers in mid-December talked about iPod shipments to Apple's nearby
store in Bellevue1. The e-mail said: "FWIW, the gal at the Bellevue
Square Apple Store said that they are getting in two shipments of 200
iPods every day to keep up with this week's demand, and are nearly
constantly selling out."
The note prompted a curt reply from Dave Fester, general manager of
the Windows Digital Media division, who wrote the group: "I sure hope
Microsoft employees are not buying iPods. We have great
alternatives..." Fifteen minutes later, the manager responded: "I
don't know what I was thinking. I'm sure that Microsoft employees are
not buying iPods, or Macs or PlayStations."
I find this totally stunning and completely wrong-headed. Microsoft
are trying to play the loyalty card to get their own staff to use
their products even when they don't want to? They're making it a
matter of fealty? This is no way to be creative - it's no way to
operate in a commercial marketplace today. People don't make better
products by not using the best ones that currently exist. And
companies don't spot trends and opportunities by forcing their
employees to lose faith in their own preferences and choices and
become forced proselytisers of another's beliefs.
iPods everywhere is an opportunity for Microsoft. It sounds
ridiculous but it's true. That there's a market that they haven't
conquered - a space they haven't won it - should be the greatest
reason to aspire to greatness. That there is something beautiful and
functional in their midst that is worth admiring shouldn't be ignored
just because they didn't make it. It should inhabited and ripped apart
- explored and enjoyed, all with aspiration to see the cutting edge -
the popular choice - and look to see how it could be surpassed.
It comes down to having respect for your craft and for the world in
which you live. If you want to make great things then first you have
to know what makes something great. And if you want people to make
things that trigger enthusiasm in others then a good start would be to
encourage that same enthusiasm in your staff. Making something that's
true to itself is much easier when you're honest about its failings.
Wise up guys, let them have their iPods. Let them learn from them, let
them revel in them and then get them in a room and think of something
that'll blow it away...
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Find AD real estate online
Find AD real estate online
06/08/2004 05:50 AMAmeinfo.com - Tue Jun 8, 05:29 am GMT
Real Estate Investment Resources?
Real Estate Investment Resources?
07/07/2004 01:09 AMAs the result of an on-going discussion among some friends, I'm
looking for some good real estate investment resources (residential,
not commercial). Namely, I'd like to find any or all of the following:
Books Magazines Web sites A local REI (Real Estate Investment) club
Someone local who's been at it a while Bloggers who have written or
still to write about it Nothing may come of this, but I've gone past
the "idle curiosity" phase and am moving into the...
Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent
Choosing the Right Real Estate Agent
05/26/2004 07:33 AMA good agent can serve you very well -- so choose carefully.
Estate agent on laundering charge
Estate agent on laundering charge
04/11/2005 01:53 PMA leading east Belfast estate agent is remanded in custody over money
laundering charges.
Homepage Real Estate Allocation
Homepage Real Estate Allocation
02/10/2003 01:08 PMNew estate agent code criticised
New estate agent code criticised
05/07/2004 02:10 AMA new code of conduct for estate agents is criticised for failing to
tackle rogue operators.
E-commerce = in-E-fficiency II (Real
Estate)
E-commerce = in-E-fficiency II (Real
Estate)
04/09/2004 04:11 PMLet's get depressed two days in a row... It is the 10th
anniversary of the consumer Web. We have very good mapping
services both on- and off-line. A wide variety of sites are
visited by people from all over North America every day.
Yet when people want to sell a house they almost always are
forced to pay 6% to a realtor, just as they did 30 years ago
before all of this fancy computer technology was widespread.
Has anyone tried eBay House? Why doesn't it work?
Worlds First 3G Real Estate Solution
Worlds First 3G Real Estate Solution
07/26/2004 05:24 AM3G Jul 26 2004 8:54AM GMT
For EMC, a 25% Fourth Quarter Jump
For EMC, a 25% Fourth Quarter Jump
01/22/2004 11:39 AMInternet News Jan 22 2004 4:11PM GMT
Man Survives Fourth Serious Accident
(AP)
Man Survives Fourth Serious Accident
(AP)
08/05/2004 09:35 PMAP - A 73-year-old man cheated death for the fourth time Thursday when
he survived a collision between his pickup truck and a coal train.
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