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8 December 2016 | 17 replies
There are words in the contract that mean one thing in English, and a very different, legally-binding thing in contract-ese.I really urge you to reconsider using an agent to represent you.
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15 December 2016 | 10 replies
@Shawn Campbell I have real estate savvy friends in Indy, Lafayette and Northwest Indiana who I have done business with literally for decades, if you would like referrals.On another note I have a close acquaintance from Michigan City who taught English in Huladao City, Lianing Province.
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11 May 2015 | 105 replies
Additionally, she was vital to this deal as the buyer is Chinese and does not speak English very well, not enough for the two of us to communicate properly.
5 February 2016 | 82 replies
I spent a couple months in a village in Ethiopia a couple years ago teaching English and fixing the broken computers at a school run by a couple of Catholic nuns.
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11 January 2015 | 8 replies
You can use English units, metric units, paces - they all measure length.
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29 February 2012 | 65 replies
Years ago I had a problem like that and spent 45 minutes on the phone with someone overseas.The English was limited and I knew more than they did about how to fix it.I don't call anymore as it's a waste of time.I usually go on the net and find the solution right away.
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2 April 2019 | 31 replies
Could be a small line surge passing through a faulty limit or curcit switch.....I once had a car radio that came on by itself, we joked about it being the goastbuster mobileElectrical gremlins lived in english cars as well.....
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25 January 2017 | 142 replies
Actually, truth be told, this thing I saw got me thinking:Too long to translate into English, but very interesting indeed.
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6 July 2019 | 118 replies
This is consistent with both those states that take their real property laws directly from English Common law as well as those in western states, like CA, where I sort out attorneys' and government agencies' title and liquidity matters.
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22 August 2014 | 14 replies
"New South Wales" is in some other English speaking country, not the USA.