Your home is probably your most valuable asset and it is essential that you choose a qualified home inspector. The following questions are the ones that you should ask any home inspector that would potentially inspect your home.Are Home Inspectors In Your State Regulated?Before proceeding, it is
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08/27/2006
Over the years I have had the opportunity to be at many home inspections other than ones that I was performing and they were both excellent learning opportunities and amusing...Some home inspectors don't quite understand how to ... "communicate".One time I was at an inspection and this other insp
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08/24/2006
In another blog entry I wrote on Search Engine Optimization, Joshua Plummer asked if I would note of why it is important to use text in the links to somebody elses site or your own. Specifically, why would you not want to have somebody link to you using only your URL: www.activerain.com ?Well, l
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08/20/2006
I have many Search Engine Optimization texts that I have used, but a couple stand out.Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Peter KentI must admit that I am not a fan of these "blah blah for Dummies or Complete Idiots" books, but I gave this one a try and loved it. It can be used in a number o
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08/20/2006
I can't give away all of my tricks, because competion reads my blog. ;) However, I would be happy to offer a few more thoughts on the matter, especially because I know people are very interested in the subject.Duplicating TextIf you have a lot of text that is in Flash, which, again, can not be
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08/20/2006
Be Prepard to Offer Knowledgable Information About the Pro's of Your NeighborhoodFamilies - How many families with children are in the neighborhood. This matters a lot to potential buyers that have children, especially small children.Parks - I link manner, where are the closest parks? We bought
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08/19/2006
Balance Between mFlash and Search Engine Optimization In simple terms, I like to tell people that mFlash is the "flashy" items on someone's website: virtually anything that moves, swishes, dunks, etc. On our website, for instance, we have smoke coming out of the chimney, a "clicker" (movie), an
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08/19/2006
It has been less than a week since joining ActiveRain. I didn't quite understand what "ActiveRain" had to do with anything, but now I have "seen the light"--the more "active" you are, the more "rain" will fall. Rain, of course, is a good thing. I know that it frieghtens many of you who live in
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08/18/2006
Growing up in Camas/Vancouver Washington State when I was a child (20 years ago) was great! We had all of the benefits of living in a smaller town that was close to the mountains and yet a 20 minute drive to Portland, the big city. I remember when many of the now major roads and intersections w
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08/18/2006
30-year mortgage rates dropped again this week, for the fourth straight week in a row. Freddie Mac said that mortgage rates dropped from 6.52 from 6.55% in the last week, the lowest rate since April (6.49%).Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.20 percent this week and were unchanged
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08/18/2006
