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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 

                                                            #2006 What factor is most likely to influence the demand for real estate ? A. Employment opportunities and the wage levels offered. If wages are low and the opportunity for employment is scarce, the demand for real estate becomes low. If...
01/13/2013
                                                        #2005 In general, when the supply of a certain commodity increases, what tends to evolve as a natural result of this phenomenon ? A. Prices tend to drop. Increase in supply can be the result of less demand or over-production, as well as othe...
01/13/2013
                                                            #2004 Some licensees, after dedicating years of service to marketing properties, might decide to retire but not get out of real estate all together. They may decide to help clients make decisions about investing in or purchasing property...
01/13/2013
                                                               #2003 A bill of sale is a document which is used to transfer the title of personal property from one person to another. Do you believe this fact to be true or false ? Please take your time. The solution is posted below the wildlife ph...
01/13/2013
                                                            #2002 An estmate of a property's market value conducted in a manner based on methods that have been established and undertaken by trained professionals applying professional judgement about market value is performed by whom ? Take your t...
01/13/2013
                                                         #2001 What are the two characteristics that we consider to have the most impact when we consider the market value of the land ? Please take your time. The answers are posted below the wildlife photo.   A. Uniqueness and immobility. No two p...
01/13/2013
                                                         #2001 What are the two characteristics that we consider to have the most impact when we consider the market value of the land ? Please take your time. The answers are posted below the wildlife photo.   A. Uniqueness and immobility. What we'...
01/11/2013
  Six Defendants Indicted in $4.5 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme Defendants Used Sanford Title Services and Shell Companies to Fraudulently Disburse Settlement Proceeds to Themselves U.S. Attorney’s Office January 11, 2013 District of Maryland (410) 209-4800   BALTIMORE—A federal grand jury has in...
01/11/2013
Former Attorney Sent to Prison for a Decade in $7 Million Ponzi Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office January 11, 2013 Southern District of Texas (713) 567-9000   HOUSTON—Billy Frank Davis, aka Bill F. Davis, a former attorney residing in Houston, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for per...
01/11/2013
Former Chairman of the Board of SCSU and Upstate Man Indicted U.S. Attorney’s Office January 10, 2013 District of South Carolina (803) 929-3000   COLUMBIA, SC—Jonathon N. Pinson, age 42, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, and Eric Robinson, age 42, of Greer, South Carolina, were arraigned in feder...
01/11/2013
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