Real estate brokers and agents are two different things. An agent provides their services, independently, to a broker for a fee. A broker sells property owned by others, and may offer management services. Most brokers deal in residential property, but some deal with industrial, commercial and agricultural. The brokers who deal in the latter are often times employed by specialized firms or larger corporations....

WordCamp, Utah September 27, 2008.Matt Mullenweg, one of the founding developers of WordPress was the keynote speaker at Saturday’s WordCamp event in Provo, Utah. His speech included a summary of WordPress developments this year and included a large list of what’s next for the fast-growing, free blogging service.The WordPress blogging service started with only 5 developers and 2 blogs. In the beginning...

Remember monopoly? Remember mortgages? You know, the text that’s written when you flip your title deed. Flipping the title deed means your property is on mortgage and you’ll get money from the bank.Sounds simple right? Wrong. There’s much more to it than that.Here are the things you need to know about the game and how to get most out of your mortgages.The idea of the game is to buy and rent...

We buy homes real estate investment companies buy homes in just a few days if you need to sell fast. Homeowners may have fallen several months behind their mortgage with very little hope of ever catching up. Selling a home can become very stressful, especially when it needs to be sold fast. When a homeowner lists their home for sale, it could take months before it sells.Why we buy homesReal estate investment...

We know that you can give up to $12,000 per person per year and never pay a federal gift tax – thanks to the annual gift tax exclusion. That’s fine if you’re writing out a check or just giving cash. But, how can you give someone a house or a business or anything else that is not money and still have it come under the annual gift-tax exclusion?Let’s say you’re parents have a condo...

There’s two sides to the real estate business. There’s the emotional side where the person is buying [or selling] and then there’s the business side, the non-emotional, logical and rational side. The emotional side is made up of the excitement, frustration, euphoria, fear, etc. that the buyer feels when they’re going through the process of looking at houses, making offers, arranging...