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Kathy Streib likes to share some of the things she has recently learned here on Active Rain. This is a re-blog of the post she made today. It has a variety of topics. Feel free to go back to her original page to make any comments. I Learn Something New at ActiveRain Every Day and It's Time I Show...
08/04/2012
Michael George has come up with an interesting article about the optimal reading level for content on the Internet. If you have comments, please post them back on his original post.We all know that good content is crucial to SEO or search engine optimization. Well, I recently ran into a very un...
08/04/2012
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hyPRcast has been identified as many things. It has been called a hybrid between social media and a powerful array of online tools. But one of the things that is included is a free website. The website is WordPress-based so it can be used as a website and/or a blog. And you can update your si...
08/04/2012
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What is hyPRcast? hyPRcast is a new online resource that is a hybrid between social media and an impressive array of free online tools to help businesses and organizations get their message out. You will probably be hearing more and more about this resource as it grows. Imagine one site that ha...
08/01/2012
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The US National Debt is closing in on 16 trillion dollars. For a person who was born in late 1980 (31.7 years ago) they have achieved the ripe old age of one billion seconds. When comparing the national debt at that time to the current national debt, the increase has been about 15 trillion doll...
07/30/2012
In most areas there are quite a few vacant homes that are somewhere in the process of foreclosure. When a homeowner gets behind in their payments, there is an inspector who will come by about once a month to verify occupancy. The inspector might check gas and electric meters to see if there is st...
06/21/2012
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There has been a ton of talk about a lottery jackpot of a half billion dollars. They said that the odds of winning are about one in 175 million. To put that in perspective, think of a place that is about 175 miles away. OK, from Indianapolis it is about 180 miles to Chicago. That should be c...
03/30/2012
The news is a source of information that is frequently mis-interpreted. But in conversations with a few real estate agents around Indiana, it seems like everybody is busier. Showings are up. More offers are being made and accepted. And I even heard one agent talking about how there might not ...
03/20/2012
We have all heard much discussion about the large inventory of bank-owned homes, including the shadow inventory. From the time that a borrower goes delinquent, quite a bit of time can pass before there is an actual sheriff sale. At the sheriff sale, the majority of properties go back to the len...
01/24/2012
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Let me start by saying that I am not an economist (and I don't play one on tv. - Why does everybody like to add that phrase?) And it just might be an advantage - not being an economist. But on to the discussion. Years ago, I had a book that showed payments for various interest rates. When inter...
11/27/2011