I received an email this evening that warned me about purchasing gift cards this holiday season and I thought you might appreciate the information. The email read: "If you tend to give gift cards around the holidays, you need to be careful that the cards will not be honored after the holidays. St
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11/30/2008
I personally think they are a thing of the past. Are you sometimes asking yourself "and why am I paying all this dues and fees to NAR and my local board? The way they do business is stuck in the 20th century. Think about it, what do they actually do for the Realtor that pays them month after mont
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11/30/2008
This post may be more suited for Halloween. However, I have recently watched a couple of shows on tv about the White House. I don't recall on which show I heard this White House ghost story and usually I take these things with a grain of salt but since the person who experienced it was Winston
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11/30/2008
For the month of October, the San Antonio Board of Realtors shows a 6% increase in the price of homes as compared to one year ago, evidence of the fact that our local market has held strong in relation to other areas of the country. Homes have stayed on the market longer by an average of 13 days
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11/29/2008
To say your credit history & score is HUGE these days may be a borderline understatement. For purposes of my experience, I'll concentrate on how credit relates to getting a mortgage to buy a home or trying to refinance the one you currently own. Talking about credit is about as much fun as che
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11/29/2008
Holiday Boat Caroling November 29 - December 21During the holidays barges filled with carolers will serenade visitors along the River Walk.Fiesta de las Luminarias
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11/29/2008
Property investment for resale has been glorified in shows like "Flip that House", in the ultimate sellers market a few years ago people with very little experience were making big bucks doing this. Things have changed a little since the days when you could buy a house, throw some paint on it and
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11/27/2008
Excellent advice from LaShawn Norden.As a Buyer's Agent, I can understand how exciting it is to look for homes! I'm sure there are days when you spend hours surfing the Internet looking for that "perfect" house or weekends driving up and down streets calling on signs to see how much a seller is a
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11/26/2008
My husband and I have been to the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center near Portland; we have been to Fort Clatsop and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center on the Oregon coast. During the 106 days Lewis and Clark were at Ft. Clatsop, the foggiest spot in the lower 48 states, they only
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11/26/2008
You may want an excuse to work off a few of those calories you enjoyed on Thanksgiving. Head on down to the Holiday River Parade and Lighting Ceremony on Friday at 7:00 p.m. The switch will be thrown and more than 120,000 twinkling lights will form a beautiful and magical canopy over the San An
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11/26/2008
