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How do the prices for real estate in NZ compare to prices in USA— like CA or Hawaii? Hay guys and girls i got a question. If i have 100000 dollars can i get any house i want? All of you business Experts Or Management? … read more…
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Sean has traveled nationwide as a Public Relations, Marketing and Account Representative for Delta Media Group, a leader in real estate website and lead management technology. Sean Cutright can be found online at www. … read more…
Distressed Real Estate and the Benefits of a Receiver | Private …
In order to reduce the exposure to a lender and the costs in managing distressed real estate, a receiver can be appointed. The receiver takes over the management of the property and all associated operational, insurance and tax aspects … read more…
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Know About The Termite Inspection Form
The National Pest Management Association is the association that licensed and professional termite inspectors belong to, and they will provide to each pest control agent the NPMA-33 Termite Inspection… read more…
McGrath Estate Agents Expands Into The Southern Highlands Of NSW, Australia.
Leading residential agency, McGrath Estate Agents, announces the opening of a new regional office in Bowral, in the NSW Southern Highlands. This is the first office outside McGrath’s traditional core … read more…
Opportunities in Distressed Commercial Properties
While much of the nation?s attention has been focused on residential real estate, deteriorating commercial real estate market conditions have slowly been building to a crescendo of opportunity for inv… read more…
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Open Question: I’m wanting to go into real estate. What should I major in?
I’m wanting to eventually become a real estate broker and I don’t know if I should major in Marketing or Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.
Any help?
also, my school doesn’t even offer a minor in real estate. 
Open Question: wheres this story at CNN PMSNBC Feinstein routes government money to firm doing business with husband?
Feinstein routes government money to firm doing business with husband
| The Washington Times reports that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) took unusual steps to route government funding to an agency that usually works from a separate stream of revenue just after the agency awarded her husband’s firm a lucrative contract. The FDIC gave Richard Blum’s firm, property management firm CB Richard Ellis, contracts to handle residential foreclosures at a higher rate than normal market price, even though CBRE had less experience in that market than other competing firms. And Feinstein got the FDIC the money even though she has no connection to the Senate Banking Committee, the body that normally deals with the FDIC:
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn’t a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments – not direct federal dollars.
Documents reviewed by The Washington Times show Mrs. Feinstein first offered Oct. 30 to help the FDIC secure money for its effort to stem the rise of home foreclosures. Her letter was sent just days before the agency determined that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) – the commercial real estate firm that her husband Richard Blum heads as board chairman – had won the competitive bidding for a contract to sell foreclosed properties that FDIC had inherited from failed banks.
About the same time of the contract award, Mr. Blum’s private investment firm reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it and related affiliates had purchased more than 10 million new shares in CBRE. The shares were purchased for the going price of $3.77; CBRE’s stock closed Monday at $5.14.
In other words, Richard Blum bought 10 million shares at the same time his wife arranged for an unusual and extremely large chunk of taxpayer money to go to FDIC. Blum must have been an investment genius to guess that his wife’s intervention would coincidentally precede the FDIC’s award, making CBRE stock more valuable. Blum’s investment made a $14 million profit for Blum and Feinstein and their partners.
But of course, that’s all just a coincidence.
The contract award to CBRE should raise a few eyebrows:
The firm, known for its commercial real estate services, is to be paid monthly maintenance fees for each foreclosed property it handles, as well as commissions and incentives. The total compensation can range from 8 percent of the sales price on many residential properties to 30 percent for properties worth $25,000 or less. A smaller firm also won a slice of the work with similar terms, records show.
Most real estate agents earn no more than 6 percent on residential, even on foreclosed properties, and CBRE doesn’t have as much experience in foreclosure sales as other firms, the experts said.
FDIC awarded this contract to CBRE even though it’s more known as a commercial real estate property management firm, and it gave them more commission than agents usually get. Why would the FDIC deliberately award a contract at relatively unfavorable terms to a company with a weak track record in this industry? Perhaps they knew that the contract award would net them a lot more cash than they would have to pay out, thanks to the political connections at CBRE … and they were right.
Now Feinstein wants people to believe that she and Blum had no idea that the FDIC would give CBRE this contract at the time she gave the FDIC $25 billion. How did CBRE get the contract — a lottery? They had to bid for the FDIC contract. Blum obviously knew that the bid was under consideration, or he’s the most incompetent board chairman in history. Feinstein expects us to believe that the board chairman would have no idea that his own company had a major bid under consideration for handling foreclosures at a time when foreclosures were exploding? Is that really going to be her final answer?
At the very least, this shows a clear conflict of interest, especially with Feinstein suddenly jumping into the banking arena and FDIC at a time when her husband was doing business with them. It looks a lot more like a payoff and a shell game to allow her family to cash in on taxpayer-funded bailout money. (
Resolved Question: Just a couple of easy questions HELP!!!!!!?
This is just a couple of questions from a big test so don’t say i didn’t try
1. What is an entrepreneur? (1 point)
a sole proprietorship
a corporation
one who opens a new business
a bank that loans money
2. Which of the following is the best definition of probable operating costs? (1 point)
Amount of money required to start a business
Amount of money required to market a business
Amount of money required to purchase business equipment
Amount of money required to keep a business running
3. What may be offered to clients when banks find the risk too high? (1 point)
Proprietary money
Private money
Personal money
Partnership money
4. Which of the following is a start-up cost associated with opening a business? (1 point)
Equipment
Legal fees/Licensing
Insurance
All of the above
5. What is a term used widely among real estate investors to refer to non-traditional means of real estate financing, or financing techniques not commonly used? (1 point)
Common financing
Capital financing
Leverage financing
Creative financing
6. What does “OPM” stand for in leveraging OPM? (1 point)
Organizational profit management
Other profit means
Other people’s money
Organizational profit marketing
7. Generally, a loan obtained from a bank will be a loan. (1 point)
Taxed
Term
Variable
Collateral-free
8. Which of the following is not a type of retail bank? (1 point)
Bond bank
Private bank
Offshore bank
Ethical bank
9. What type of banks were traditionally banks which engaged in trade financing? (1 point)
Private
Merchant
Ethical
Offshore
10. Which of the following is an example of an unsecured bank loan? (1 point)
Credit card debt
Bank overdrafts
Corporate bonds
All of the above
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