Outside buyers drawn to Detroit's foreclosed homes - Yahoo! News

Outside buyers drawn to Detroit's foreclosed homes - Yahoo! News: "DETROIT – Welcome to Landlord Nation, where foreclosure notices are plentiful and for-sale signs offer at least 1,800 homes for under $10,000 that once were worth at least 10 times more."

Granted, this IS Detroit. I have been through that area many times... YIKES! At least the freeway portion that goes by the old Tiger baseball stadium (But, I think they have a new stadium).

But, of 1,800 homes... mightn' one be a gem? Imagine if so!

If Detroit is a tad scary for you, check out Toledo, Ohio (about 70 miles or so south). There are some decent areas, where you don't need to play "Dodge Bullet." I bet you can scoop up some nice bargains under $50,000!

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Real estate topped in 2005 so the downturn is getting old. I am a big believer in cycles and buying way down.

Nothing lasts forever. The longer something lasts, the closer to the end.

We don't need to PICK THE BOTTOM, just get a nice price with little downside risk. Even if there is further price reduction, you are in for the long term.

If you ask 30 people: "Should I buy real estate?" after a big run up, 27 will say "YES! Don't you read the papers?" If you ask those 30 the same question, years into a decline, 27 will say "Hell no!!!! Don't you know how to read? The news is 'all bad' (er, the selectively reported and selectively perceived news).

When will these 27 be interested in buying real estate again? Yep, near the next top. It's so funny how the "beat goes on." And, I find it so strange how they never get a clue and examine their horrific record of timing/predicting. A bit of introspection never hurts! It beats me how people can be so darn delusional.

With regards to the dire news and predictions? I have 2 eyes. I can read 5 word headlines (headlines written at the 3rd grade level is no problem for me!). I can comprehend what I read. I can parrot what I read, but why bother? Any fool can parrot news. Any fool can let news make them emotional and pessimistic. What is the benefit? What is gained from that?

This is NOT burying your head in the sand, it is burying the pessimist and assessing the situation with an open mind. There are problems but fat good it does to get suicidal about it.

This negative news is getting old. What has the person who reads this bird cage lining material gained over the months of doom/gloom? Is he better off having read it? Or, worse off? You don't need to read the papers to prepare! Everything goes in cycles so prepare for the drought when the everyone says "All is well so why prepare? Drought? What drought?" Or, "fire? What fire? There is no fire so forget buying a fire extinguisher!"

Roll up your window before the rain comes, don't wait till it's 7/8 done.

Pessimism is pointless. Realism is better.

This too shall pass.

Profit from herdists. Without them, there would be NO such appetizing opportunities. Don't let the media make you think, "We are going to become a 3rd world country!" That is hogwash hype.

*** These people were MEGA BULLISH at the top of the market! What credibility have they?
Don't trust the predictions of people who show no propensity to predict. They will say, "You can't predict when it will bottom!" Sure, and neither can THEY predict yet they squeal: "It's GOING DOWN A TON MORE!" Why, isn't that a prediction? If no one can predict, don't predict doom and gloom either.

I am not making a prediction. I am merely saying that opportunity is going to be knocking soon... but you still need to look through the peephole, before you open the door. Sometimes the knockin is from the knuckles of a sales person. But, eventually he will throw in the towel, be fired and REAL OPPORTUNITY will come a knockin! But, beware... you might not recognize it if the news program is on too loud.

No one knows the future but with a portion of risk capital and low prices, we go with the odds.

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Blogging For Business Owners 

 

If you run a small company, you may find that the world
of blogging for business owners is a world that you
want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get the
word out to consumers about your product or service,
and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty
and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If
you are looking for a way to take your business to the
next level, consider what starting a blog might be able
to do for you.

 

Blogging for business owners has a lot in common with
all other types of blogging, but it has its own unique
pitfalls and strengths. The key to having a successful
blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear
and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure. It
can be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you
are just learning about the exciting possibilities of
blogging technology, but if you want your blog to
succeed you need to stay focused. Write up a plan for
how often you will update, how you will promote your
blog and retain readers, whether you will feature
photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog,
and then stick to it with the same kind of determination
that you used when you built your company.  

 

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Timing and Appropriateness

Timing and Appropriateness - The Basics of Corporate Awards and Gifts

 

Corporate award and gifts are great for mostly everything, including the marketing of your company. It is also good for maintaining working relationships among people in your businesses while keeping the expenses relatively smaller than acquiring new allies. This does not imply though that your corporate award and gifts must be limited only to people you have established relationship with. As we have already said, it can also be used to promote your company to other customers or to new clients.

 

Selecting personal gifts are difficult enough. And despite of this hurdle, this still not enough to warrant that your gift will be appreciated the way you expected it to be. Thus, it is often hard to brainstorm on what you can give while maximizing the budget you have set for it. Nevertheless, one thought should always be kept in mind- a corporate gift, more specifically an award, is a measure of your appreciation to your valued employees, workers, clients, customers and those people who participate in your company's growth.

 

On the other hand, corporate awards and gifts can also be used as a source of motivation for increasing the sales via giving rewards to your top performers and business teams and units after meeting and exceeding their pre-set goals. This way, it works pretty much like an incentive for a work well done.

 

Whether you choose to give corporate gifts and awards to your employees and workers or to your clients, you still must observe specific gift etiquettes. Central to this is the timing and appropriateness of giving the gifts.

 

The Appropriateness of Recipients

 

To whom will you give the corporate gift? Is it to the boss, to company owner, to a typical workman or an officemate? Each workplace hierarchy should be given varying levels of credit. It's good if everyone is treated equally in a working place regardless of their position. But the truth is, we give much credit to higher standing colleagues than those with lower positions. On the other hand, close friends in the working place are also given much credit than ordinary, day-to-day coworkers.

 

Economically-wise, you must also take into thought how much you are willing to spend for an award or gift through maximizing the budget and giving enough justifications on the relationship you have with the receiver. You would not give a $50 corporate award and gift to a million-dollar investor, would you?

 

All companies have varying policies regarding corporate awards and gifts. It is best to check on this first before attempting to send something out unless it is a personal gift from you to a friend in unit.

 

The Timing

 

Occasions must also be taken into consideration when sending a corporate award or gift. This is much like thinking of what to give for a birthday celebrant or an anniversary party. There are again, various considerations that you must mull over to fit your gift into the occasion.

 

Corporate award and gifts for the commemoration of specific major events- These include major holidays, company anniversary, birthdays of the company figures, or simply a special event in the company's life such as the founding and great achievements of sorts.

 

Corporate award and gifts for company social events- Whatever your company's choice of event is, there certainly are some gifts that would matched the stuff. Say, golf corporate baskets, awarding of tickets and special treats to specific gatherings, get away surprises and others.

 

Celebration of specific events- These include maternity celebration, retirement, long services leave, staff birthdays, team building events, an a lot more others.

 

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Bandwidth Bandits

Bandwidth Bandits

 

Files that are loaded to or from servers uses internet bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your ISP, surf the web or use an audio application, you are using bandwidth. 

 

Bandwidth is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to a network. Depending on the grade of the wire it determines how much data is coming across the network where your web-site is hosted. When someone attempts to get more data than can be handled by the network, the whole network slows down.

 

ISP's can put a limitation on bandwidth at certain times during peak periods or charge you a flat fee per month for bandwidth usage. If you go over the flat fee, then they charge you extra for using extra bandwidth. Some ISP's will shut down the transmissions until traffic is more stable on the network.

 

You can load most files (images, sound files, videos and flash scripts and other programs) in your web site. This excludes, of course, banners and pop ups and specific documents and images which are supposed to be loaded from a central server. 

 

Bandwidth bandits link to images and other files directly to some other server instead of putting them on their local server. There are various reasons as to why they do this but one reason is to get as much bandwidth as possible to show their links and images. So they "steal" images or audio files each time the site is initialized meaning that they steal the bandwidth. 
 
There's certain ways that you can stop the person from stealing your bandwidth allocation. If they have an email, I would contact them personally or go through Network Solutions and do an IP lookup which will give you information on the person and who the site is registered to. You can always get in touch with the company that hosts their site too.

 

Bandwidth can be expensive and the last thing that you want is someone stealing it.

 

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BED AND BREAKFAST THE EASIEST HOME-BASED BUSINESS

BED AND BREAKFAST THE EASIEST HOME-BASED BUSINESS

 

There's an exciting new "down-home" kind of business springing up
among homeowners all across the country. It's called Bed and
Breakfast.

 

Basically, this is a transplant of European Hospitality, adapted
and refined to the American way of doing things.  To foreign
visitors, it's the comfort and hospitality of home---staying
overnight "with people of the land" and enjoying a hearty
breakfast---without the traditional gaudiness and plastic
feelings visitors get from most big cities in the United States.
To U.S. citizens, it is a welcome alternative to the same old
hotel/motel circuit.

 

Now, all it takes is a spare bedroom, a good cook ad an outgoing
personality. Prices per night range from a low $25 to $100 or
more.

 

If you have an extra bedroom, a large home, or extra space in
your farm house, you have the necessary beginnings to start
making extra income as a Bed and Breakfast Inn. One of the
beautiful aspects of this idea is that so long  as you're hosting
"overnight visitors" on a small scale no licenses will be
required. It's always best, however to check with your local
authorities just to be sure.

 

Naturally, your "visitors" will expect a clean, neat and
comfortable home. So assuming that your home meets these
prerequisites, and you have a spare bedroom, simply 'doll it up"
a bit. Make sure it's painted brightly, there's an outside
window, lots of room, closet space and bureau, and perhaps a
small writing desk, and a large comfortable bed, or twin beds.

 

Most foreign visitors will expect and appreciate a "quick tour"
of the interesting sights in your area. However, as your
particular popularity  as a B&B Host grows, you'll find that a
lot of American tourists and business people on the road will
begin availing themselves of your hospitality. Certainly with
these people, it won't always be necessary to give the "Red
Carpet" visitors treatment.

 

Which brings us to the basic appeal of a Bed and Breakfast Inn.
Travelers seem to be looking for, and appreciate a quiet
"home-style" place to stay. Generally, they enjoy visiting with
the people off the superhighway and want to get away from the
sterilized atmosphere and sameness of hotels and motels.

 

Most people will either write to you ahead of time, inquiring
about the possibilities of staying at your home while in your
town or city. This means a bit of advertising on your part, or
listing your availability with a B&B broker. Some people will
check the local telephone listings, and the newspaper
advertisements when they arrive in a strange town. And some
people will just be driving across the country, come to a town or
city they think is interesting, and start driving through the
residential areas looking for Bed and Breakfast Inns.

 

Thus, you should have a small sign posed either in your front
yard or on the front of your house. This sign needn't be much
more than about two feet wide and about ten inches deep. It need
only state: BED AND BREAKFAST--Inquire Within or Call 123-4567.

 

For newspaper advertising, a similar listing in the personal
column of your local paper, particularly on Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays, will be all you'll need. But when it comes to the
yellow pages of your telephone and business directories, go with
a small display ad that describes in greater detail the comforts
and pleasures of your service.

 

Be sure to list your services with all the travel agencies in
your area. A brochure or a short synopsis of what you offer will
most assuredly give the travel agents an idea for steering
visitors your way. At the same time, listing your services in a
number of national travel magazines --particularly those that
cater to women--- will bring customers in for you.

 

Listing your services with a broker usually won't cost you
anything up front, but they will expect a certain
percentage--usually about 25% of the total bill. This same
arrangement applies with travel agents.

 

Now, suppose you're organized and ready to receive your first
customers. You greet them as host or hostess and offer to assist
them in getting situated in the room or rooms you have for them.
If they'd like to take a drive around your area and see the
points of interest, you do that. And then in the morning, serve
them a big, delicious breakfast.

 

You'll probably find that foreign visitors will want to stay
several days. With most people of this country who are just
travelling through your area, it'll be a one-night stopover.
Whatever, if they want to sleep comfortably through the night,
eat breakfast and be on their way, so be it. If they want to stay
around after breakfast and plan an itinerary for a compete visit
in your area, your assistance and help will be greatly
appreciated. (Remember those recommendations)!

 

That's it! The complete how and why of this tremendously
profitable business that's becoming more and more popular. It's
called Bed & Breakfast, and it's very definitely a low investment
idea. And you can parlay it into a very interesting and
comfortable income producing business--all from the comfort of
your own home!

 

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Blogging: Consolidation, Debt, and New Information

Blogging: Consolidation, Debt, and New Information
Technology

 

If you are interested in blogging, consolidation, debt, and
other financial topics are sure to appear in many of the
blogs that you regularly read. Techniques to make and
manage money are some of the most popular topics for
bloggers to explore on the web, so it is little wonder that
so many bloggers turn their attention to dealing with
debt. Falling into debt is all too easy, and getting out of
debt can be very difficult for people who do not have a
lot of financial expertise. For people who have a knack
for dealing with finances, blogging about their insights
and knowledge can be a great way to literally and
figuratively share the wealth.

 

If you are considering getting into blogging,
consolidation, debt, savings, and investment topics can
prove to be very fruitful things to write about. Many
professional bloggers who make a living off of their
blogs spend their days writing about money. If you
know how to court advertisers and build a blog fan
base, you can make money just by talking about money.
If you are familiar with loan consolidation, negotiating
settlements with credit card companies, or any other
financial topics, consider using your knowledge to
create a successful blog. By sharing your expertise, you
may be able to help your readers get out of debt while
you reap sizable monetary rewards for your time and
knowledge.

 

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