They have been notified by email and certified mail and negotiations have been unproductive.

Not in that they haven't graduated high school but in that they are entirely unproductive members of society that are actually higher destructive.Very high cancer rate in Pensacola from the type of limited industry it has attracted through time.

By that I mean, as recent as last year I would catch myself being immensely unproductive drawing up business plans and forecasted goals, etc.

Calling a neighborhood "crappy" is part offensive and part unproductive.  

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In my opinion it's just seems like a very unproductive way for an agent to spend their time.

Then, I started substituting 'pick your brain' with 'eat your brain' and that caused me to stop having a whole lot of unproductive lunches.If you want to bring value into someone's business, you have to think of what you know that may benefit them.

That feels like a large amount to just have sitting around unproductively as cash.

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The house is currently in preforeclosure, and he has been in friendly but so far unproductive negotiations with his lender (which is not the original lender of the loan).