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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, for the last 6 months, news paper circulation has fallen 2.6% nationally. Many large newspaper consortium's and conglomerates are losing revenue month over month because advertisers are leaving print to go online and reach a larger more educated audience for a lower cost ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
We have an ex co-worker moving to Denver, Colorado and he asked us what the best Denver Schools are. The first school district that came to mind was the Cherry Creek school district that has consistently ranked among the top public schools in the nation. Even Jon Elway, has elected ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Complete earning transcript here
Total yearly revenue from Q3 2006 - Q3 2007 was down 41% for LendingTree.com while IAC's other real estate play Service Magic is up 33% from a year ago.
TRANSACTIONS
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
A article by the Rocky Mountain News talked about Denver toping the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index. The Denver home appreciation rate in August was a sad .3% increase but beat all all other cities including Miami with a -2% appreciation rate, Los Angeles with a -1.1% appreciation rate and Dallas ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Popular real estate blog, Curbed, raised $1.5 million from angel investors. Blogging networks that are specific to a niche are become much more profitable than ever before.
From the Alarm Clock:
NYC-based Real estate blog network Curbed.com, has raised $1.5M in financing to expand into new cities from its base in New ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
A homeless man living on the streets in Phoenix, Arizona surprised a lot of people after he died. And now he's become the city's best example that you can't judge people by their appearance.
Read more at ABC24
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
If you have any rental related questions. We will be answering them on this blog. Send questions to dan @ rentbits.com and we will do our best to get them answered.
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
If you are starting an internet business and need funding, you may want to check out TheFunded.com. You can view hundreds of firms and view what others think of them. For each VC firm they show the track record, operating competence, pitching efficiency, favorable deal terms, and executive assistance.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Kristal Kraft wrote a blog on Equity Skimming that sparked some ideas.
Equity skimming is when a landlord has no intention on paying the mortgage. Many times these landlords are overleveraged and may have multiple properties they own but can't make payment. These criminals, decide to not pay the mortgage company ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
We just landed in Austin and it is a warm 75 degrees. The airport seems nice and we are on our way to Round Rock which is about 30 miles north of the Airport.
We will be at an Apartments conference tomorrow and will relay how that goes. In the interim, ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Here is a tip for rental sites and any site for that matter. Make sure your servers can handle the anticipated stress.
This morning over 8.5 million visitors were on the Colorado Rockies website at one time. They were waiting in anticipation to buy World Series tickets. Get it together guys.
This ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
ESOPUS
NY
$200,001.00
MONTCHANIN
DE
$200,001.00
ROCKLAND
DE
$200,001.00
YORKLYN
DE
$200,001.00
REX
NC
$200,001.00
MARIANNA
FL
$200,001.00
MIAMI BEACH
FL
$200,001.00
MEMPHIS
TN
$200,001.00
KENILWORTH
IL
$200,001.00
ATHERTON
CA
$200,001.00
HOUSTON
TX
$200,000.00
RANCHO SANTA FE
CA
$196,298.00
SHORT HILLS
NJ
$185,466.00
PURCHASE
NY
$183,686.00
VILLA MARIA
PA
$177,361.00
CHAPPAQUA
NY
$173,368.00
GLENCOE
IL
$171,063.00
PORTOLA VALLEY
CA
$164,479.00
OLD WESTBURY
NY
$163,046.00
GLADWYNE
PA
$159,905.00
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I just read a post on the Real Estate Bloggers site and and wanted to share some historical anectotes of where the term big wig came from:
Original post here.
As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October)! Women kept their hair covered, ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Ning.com, a social network platform that allows anyone to easily add their own social network said they have surpassed the 100,000 social networks added. Ning.com was started by Marc Andreeseen who was the original brains behind Netscape that was sold to AOL for $4.2 billion.
It looks like there are close ...
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