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Posted by admin on March 10th, 2010
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Have you heard of Private Transfer Fees? A private transfer fee is a fee that is required to be paid each time a property is sold at closing. The transfer fee is attached to the property as a covenant that can run for a period, often 20 or 100 years.
The fees are being used for a variety of purposes. In some cases, they have been used to satisfy demands from environmental groups. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010
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Mr. Obama’s latest program for the foreclosure crisis attempts to stabilize the market in a different way than his previous attempts. Before, the feds tried to keep people in their homes by negotiating reduced payments through loan modifications. Few people were able to use the programs and of those that did the rate of default recidivism was 50% within six months. The “new” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 8th, 2010
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[Kicking this back to the top from March of 2007. -- GSS]
I wrote this in 1996, I think. This was a fun story for me, a chance to play with two characters I like a lot. Brian Brady has wondered about locales in these stories. There always is one, a real place where the events transpire, but the narrative is so minimal, I can’t see how anyone could guess where they’re set. Not this time. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 7th, 2010
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[Teri mentioned this old post (from June 2007) to me on Friday, and I'm revisiting the third act because it's pertinent to some new business I want to take up tomorrow or Monday. --GSS]
Extracted from BloodhoundBlog post #1590:
This came in as a comment last night.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be competitive and wanting to win, but, reading your posts the last few weeks, you ego is a Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 5th, 2010
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I attended Homegain Nation early this week. It was a fantastic time, giving me the opportunity to meet many great people I’ve known online for years. I decided to run a little experiment and bring my Ubuntu laptop, while leaving my windoze machine at home. So…Ubuntu performed extremely well, but MLS vendors performed very poorly. I was not able to get the following Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 4th, 2010
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Technology “expert” Clifford Stoll precisely 15 years ago in Newsweek:
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010
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I wrote this coming on four years ago, one of my last posts to PresenceOfMind.net, my philosophical/political/literary home on the web. The planned strike of our undocumented friends has come and gone, but the underlying idea — a strike against the looters on June 1st — still resonates with me. What say you? Is this something worth pursuing? –GSS
Francisco looked silently out Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010
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I thought about making a short movie addressing a host of common questions about the political philosophy we’ve been discussing, but I decided to undertake the task in text, instead. A video would be faster for me, but not so much for you. Plus, text is easy to search and easy to revisit, where video can be ungainly. So: FAQ-style:
What does this have to do with real estate?
Human liberty begins Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on March 1st, 2010
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National Review Online:
Think of Greece as California: Every year an irresponsible and corrupt bureaucracy awards itself higher pay and better benefits paid for by an ever-shrinking wealth-generating class. And think of Germany as one of the less profligate, still-just-about-functioning corners of America such as my own state of New Hampshire: Responsibility doesn’t pay. You’ll wind up bailing Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by admin on February 28th, 2010
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The American People will take Socialism but they won’t take the label -Upton Sinclair
I believe that the American people will want the label of “unfettered capitalism” but will not necessarily adopt the economic system. Americans like government in small doses but they like (and mostly trust) their government. The morality of the argument for voluntaryism, Read the rest of this entry »
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