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You might want to think twice the next time a title company tries to buy your loyalty with expensive gifts, memberships, tickets to sporting events, golf tournaments, etc. Or, maybe I'm wrong and that never happens. This past fall, HUD concluded a 3 month investigation into certain marketing pra...
12/30/2006
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The image is a wedding photo of my maternal grandparents who immigrated to Baltimore from northern Europe. They worked as transient farm laborers and toiled at other menial jobs to eventually purchase a town home in a community known as Fells Point. Fells Point, adjacent to Baltimore's inner ha...
12/30/2006
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To my way of thinking, public awareness will eventually prove the most effective deterrent to real estate fraud. Still, I'm convinced that the professional development of industry insiders is, for now, the proper focus of fraud prevention efforts. The continuing education offered to realtors, m...
12/28/2006
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In his book "the brand you 50", Tom Peters wrote: "So choose - and reject clients with the utmost care. Yes, you do have the power to choose ... and to reject ... That is ... professionally ... I am those whom I serve ... That is, I am professionally defined by those with whom I do business ... Y...
12/27/2006
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I would like to take a quick moment to thank everyone who, earlier this week, responded to my first post on Active Rain, "The Silent Second Revisited." It's great to be part of a supportive and appreciative group of professionals. I've decided to construct a separate article around a comment su...
12/26/2006
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On November 26, 2006, the Orlando Sentinel published an article entitled "Hear this loud and clear: A "silent mortgage" is fraud." The article was written by syndicated columnist Robert Bruss, Inman News. The term "silent mortgage", synonymous with "silent second", is one that I hadn't heard f...
12/23/2006
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