We are living in the social media age of instant gratification. Everywhere we turn whether it’s Facebook, Google or our best friends blog; answers to our most pressing questions have never been more readily available. The Internet has become our go-to resource for content, but wading through the social muck can be a challenge. Creating your social media strategy and content cheat sheet can be a life saver.
As a real estate or mortgage professional, being online is now a requirement and no longer a suggestion. However, simply showing up online is not enough. Your social media efforts require that you not only engage an already over stimulated society but increase your bottom line by providing fresh, relevant content.
The problem with many marketers is the theory that you will simply build it and the fans will come. Thats
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For the holidays, many of us have to travel to visit our loved ones. If you have kids travel with you, you know how difficult it can be. Yes, little ones are cute and make you laugh, but strap them down to a car seat for hours at a time, and your little cutie suddenly turns into someone, or something, from a horror movie.
I’ve been lucky that my son is somewhat used to traveling by car. When he was 3-months-old, we decided to DRIVE from Michigan to Texas. He actually seemed to enjoy it. Nowadays, it’s a little harder for him to sit for long periods of time, but he still does it with plenty of breaks, snacks and entertainment.
If you’re planning a road trip this holiday season (or any season), here are some things you can do to make it easier on your kids and you.
Planning a Road Trip with Kids
- The first thing you need to keep in mind is that it may take much longer to get to your destination, than you had originally anticipated. If a
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Address: 849 Brown Drive, Burbank 91504 Listed for: $825,000 Size: Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, 2,645 square feet Lot size: 0.23 acre Features: The two-story Tudor, built in 1982, has a greenhouse window in the kitchen and sits off a cul-de-sac near a park. MLS ID: 11013288 About the area: In the 91504 ZIP Code, based on 64 sales, the median sale price of existing homes in the first half of the year was $572,000, down 6.6% from the median during the first half of 2010, according to DataQuick. Address: 710 S. Mariposa St., Burbank 91506 Listed for: $725,000 Size: Three bedrooms and two bathrooms, 1,801 square feet Lot size: 0.16 acre Features: The 1942 traditional has granite counters, stainless steel kitchen appliances and a stone fireplace. It is zoned for horses. Read more…
City spokesman Chase Scott confirmed Thursday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development inspector general’s office has been at city hall this week. The authorities have been working to obtain and analyze information from Bishop Harold Ray’s Redemptive Life Initiative Corp., which received
$1.6 million through the city, from the federal HOME program from 2003 to 2009.
Redemptive Life was under contract to build about 30 homes as part of an effort by the city to revitalize the impoverished Coleman Park neighborhood.
“We welcome the participation of federal investigators,” C.K. Hoffler, who is working on Ray’s legal team, said Thursday. “Our view is that once all is said and done, we’re going to be vindicated. We think this is a good development.”
HUD in October ordered West Palm Beach to repay $642,000 of the grant money, after the city failed to document that the project was moving forward.
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If you receive error messages in both Internet Explorer and Firefox that a Web address is not found, then the problem is not with either browser. The problem is either with your computer or the Web page that you are trying to visit. You get the error message when your computer cannot connect to the website.
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If multiple browsers report that they cannot find a Web address, the first thing to check is your Internet connection. Look at the status icon in your Windows task bar. This icon is a series of five vertical bars, each a little taller than the one to its left. It will give you an indication if your connection is on. If all five bars are grayed out, you aren’t connected; if only one or two is solid white, your connection is weak.
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