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Services for Real Estate Pros with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers

In 2008, six percent of buyers purchased a home that had been foreclosed or that was in the process of foreclosure according to NAR.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received an average of 357 text messages per month in the second quarter of 2008, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month, according to a Nielson Mobile survey.

 According to NAR, 69% of buyers said that they used the internet frequently during the search process in 2008, up from 60% last year. In 2003, that number was 42%.

 

 

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