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David Saks is a musician, retired real estate broker, and long-time ActiveRain member. David's blog features important information relevant to the safety, integrity and security of the industry. In addition to his widely read real estate fraud blog, a comprehensive overview of real estate continuing education is a weekly addition for his subscribers and the ActiveRain community at-large. Thank you for subscribing to and for visiting David's ActiveRain home on the internet. Please join. Membership in ActiveRain will enrich your life !

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2013 

                                                              #2381 When a listing is taken by an agent and the brokerage the listing is generally considered to be one which is an employment agreement for services carried out between the seller and the multiple listing service of the local realto...
10/06/2013
                                                              #2381 When a listing is taken by an agent and the brokerage the listing is generally considered to be one which is an employment agreement for services carried out between the seller and the multiple listing service of the local realto...
10/06/2013
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Who is Kerrie LaGuardia ?   First, she's a kind person.   She thinks and she acts with kindness.   She loves kindness.   She's mastered kindness.   That's why her smile is beautiful.   She's always asking others' "What can I do for you ? "   She always finds things to say that are encouraging.   ...
10/06/2013
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Some things about Tennessee:   First, I love my Tennessee backyard !   The city of Kingston served asTennessee's state capital for one day (September 21, 1807) as a result of treaties negotiated with the Cherokee Indians. The two-hour legislative session passed two resolutions and adjourned back...
10/05/2013
Here's a blast from the past ! Dennis Quaid & Alec Baldwin "Great Balls of Fire" Filmed in Memphis in 1989, I bought the car that Alec Baldwin drives in the film from the producers when production had completed. It's a light blue 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe. I restored it and drove it for while ...
10/05/2013
Here's what the National Center for Healthy Housing has to say about Memphis ! http://www.nchh.org/Policy/2013StateofHealthyHousing/LocationSummary/tabid/858/msa/22/Default.aspx    
10/04/2013
This came in the mail today. ------------------------ Hello, As you may know, the Federal government’s spending authority expired at midnight, Monday, September 30th, 2013.   Therefore, most HUD programs have been temporarily interrupted and most HUD employees have been told they cannot work.   ...
10/02/2013
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I love my home. It's cozy. Warm in the winter. Cool in the summer. It's in an old Memphis neighborhood. Satiated with crime, racism, poverty, illiteracy, and blight. Somehow or other I've been spared the horror. But not the awareness of it. Many of the homes around me are boarded up. Many abandon...
10/01/2013
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09/30/2013
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