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Do you need to raise money to launch your hot idea? Do you have a great idea but your banker won’t even consider it and you have exhausted your family and friends network? No worries, Social Media is changing how we market and communicate. It is changing the way we raise money. Crowdfunding pulls together those that are look...
May 20, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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“My mother sold real estate. They used to call her the “Condo Queen.” She loved it. She sold until she was 85 and then she had to quit because of health.” - Glenn Earl Warm Your Life Thursday in the middle of the afternoon isn’t marked on my calendar as a time where I expect to receive some inspiration....
May 13, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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“I told you before and nobody would listen to me.” “I keep telling him I need his help and he won’t do anything about it.” - Two Different Friends Is Anybody Listening? I was looking across the table at a close friend telling me about the challenges he was facing in his work. Then the next day I was...
May 06, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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“When my grandpa would see me he would say, ‘Megan, where’s your curly hair! I love your curly hair!” - Megan Mirror, Mirror I looked in my mirror over and over again for about a full week and when I did, the first thought that came to my mind was, “you need a hair cut!” I’ve tried lots of ways to ...
May 04, 2012 | 0 | 8 |
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Overall venture capital funding into biotech companies increased from $3.8 million in 2010 to $4.7 million in 2011, and funding for medical device and medical equipment companies increased from $6.7 million to $8.2 million in 2010 and 2011, respectively. More importantly, the statistics note that while fewer companies wer...
Apr 30, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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“You have to work on changing yourself. It may not be easy, but it can certainly be one, and it works.” Rabbi Daniel Lapin You Can Make New Music When I was a young boy my parents enrolled me in lessons so I could learn to play the piano. I practiced a little, but I wasn’t committed to the result of being ...
Apr 26, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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By: Esther Cho While 114 out of 212 metropolitan areas with a population of 200,000 or more saw increases in foreclosure activity during the 2012 first quarter, activity was still down compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to RealtyTrac’s 2012 first quarter Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report. ...
Apr 22, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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“There is little doubt that Happiness circuits are highly suggestible, and that they are transformable through intention and effort. They are among the most plastic circuits in the brain.” Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald Qualities of Mind I was talking with a friend regarding his children the other day. He wa...
Apr 20, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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RealtyTrac: Short Sales Up 33% in January, Outpace REO Sales in 12 States 04/19/2012 By: Esther Cho With the number of short sales increasing and even outnumbering REO sales in certain states, experts are speculating short sales might become key to preventing an even greater swelling of foreclosed prop...
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Fannie and Freddie Set Timeline Requirements for Short Sales 04/17/2012 By: Carrie Bay Beginning June 15, real estate agents working with distressed homeowners whose loans are backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should expect to receive a decision on a short sale offer within 30-60 days. ...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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You may ask why would Lynn post this article regarding California Housing? My experience is that the Utah market follows the California market in a matter of months. We are already seeing this trend in Salt Lake , Summit and Tooele Counties. If you have been waiting for the bottom of the market my guess is that this ...
Apr 15, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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“Did you learn something this morning?” Bonita Hutchison Hearing Words and Learning Anew Bonita asked me if I learned something last Thursday morning. I said no, but then stopped and said, “I need to think about it for a while.” This is the perfect example of how I’m just beginning to learn from, and be ...
Apr 13, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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Freddie Mac Reports 15-Year Rate Fell to New Low 04/12/2012 By: Esther Cho Following a disappointing employment report, fixed rate averages fell for the third week in a row, with the 15-year fixed-rate hitting a new low, while the 30-year rate continues to fall further beneath 4 percent, according ...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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CoreLogic: Best Markets for Single-Family Rental Investments 04/11/2012 By: Esther Cho Single-family rental investing is a $3 trillion market, according to CoreLogic’s MarketPulse report, which further stated that the single-family rental market accounts for $21 million rental units, or 52 percent of ...
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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RealtyTrac Reports Foreclosure Filings Down, Foreclosure Timelines Up 04/11/2012 By: Esther Cho Foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions – were reported on 572,928 properties during the 2012 first quarter, down 2 percent from the previous quarter and down 16 p...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 | 5 |
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LPS Reports January Home Prices Down 0.9 Percent 04/09/2012 By: Esther Cho Home prices for January 2012 dropped 0.9 percent, an even greater increase from the 0.4 percent drop in December 2011, according to Lender Processing Services’ Home Price Index ( HPI ). For January, home prices ave...
Apr 10, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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BofA Makes Changes to Trim Short Sale Timeline 04/09/2012 By: Carrie Bay Bank of America is making changes to its short sale procedures and introducing an improved task flow within the short sale technology module from Equator , BofA’s short sale management platform of choice. The goal: to reduce ...
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Credit Scores Rising, LTVs Dropping on New Mortgages: Report 04/06/2012 By: Carrie Bay Mortgage lenders remain cautious in terms of credit quality, down payments, and valuations, as evidenced by the findings outlined in the new Origination Insight Report generated by Ellie Mae . The company ...
Apr 08, 2012 | 0 | 6 |
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“I receive some criticism at work and I feel discouraged about it.” Turning Loss Into Victory “I’d like to talk with you when you get a minute,” said the email on my computer screen. I’d never received an email like this from this friend so I replied immediately. “Sure,” I typed, “I’ll come to your offi...
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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04/05/201 By: Esther Cho The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is still below 4 percent and showed very little movement since last week, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey . The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.98 percent (0.7 point) for the week ending April 5, 2012, down sligh...
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04/04/2012 By: Carrie Bay The valuation firm Clear Capital released the results of its home price forecasting models Thursday. The company expects residential property values at the national level to show slight increases over the next three months, ending the year with a growth rate of 1.2 percent. ...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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By: Esther Cho Homeowners who have had mortgage debt forgiven after a f oreclosure , modification, or short sale may be able to exclude the canceled debt from their taxable income if they meet specific criteria. According to Gil Charney, principal analyst at The Tax Institute at H&R Block , the specifi...
Apr 01, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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A small boy doing a big thing The Fifteen Second Boy I imagined that I felt like a gopher who had been underground working in his tunnels all day as I walked up the long stairs of the Huntsman Center to take a dinner break. Perhaps one big difference is that I was happy to see the light streaming through the w...
Mar 30, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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CoreLogic: Number of Completed Foreclosures Down for February 03/29/2012 By: Esther Cho The number of completed foreclosures in February 2012 was down on a monthly basis and slightly on a year-over-year comparison, but overall, foreclosure inventory has decreased compared to a year ago, according...
Mar 30, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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Forecasting Home Price Recovery: Turnover Rate as a Powerful Indicator 03/29/2012 By: Carrie Bay Home prices in many areas are already rebounding from the bottom of the market, according to the March HomeValueForecast.com update from Pro Teck Valuation Services . This month, the company exp...
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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Kitchens Sell a House by Carla Hill It's a tool used by house flippers all across the nation. Stagers know its power. Real estate agents push its importance. What is this not-so-well-kept secret of real estate? A kitchen can sell a house. A kitchen is the heart of a home. This is true all across the globe. ...
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Your content here Housing Crisis to End in 2012 as Banks Loosen Credit Standards 01/24/2012 By: Krista Franks Brock Capital Economics expects the housing crisis to end this year, according to a report released Tuesday. One of the reasons: loosening credit. The analytics firm notes the av...
Mar 28, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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Some have questioned the security of web-based dental systems when compared with legacy, office-based, client/server based systems. While the question is reasonable, the answer is very clear. Web-based systems have the capability of providing substantially greater security than any on-site, client/server based system. While ...
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Raise Funding Without a Personal Guarantee; Dilution; or Loss of Control
During ‘dead week’ in December, I had breakfast with Eliot Ward (Twitter: @eliotlyle) with Rock & Hammer Ventures (rockandhammer.biz) located in Utah. They represent a new hybrid form of funding for Utah-based companies called Revenue Based Finan...
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“No matter how bad things get there is always another day.” Cody Thompson Tomorrow’s Offer Every one of us will make a bad choice at least once in our life. Every one of us will have times when things haven’t gone as we had hoped. This is especially the case when we are young and trying to find our pat...
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