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30 January 2009 | 5 replies
Understand their perspective and "sell" how your plan will benefit the city.I had a parking shortage for a commercial property I wanted to sub- divide.
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11 July 2010 | 11 replies
, two deeds are created to be held by the escrow agent for the benefit of the buyer and seller.
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26 March 2009 | 1 reply
For example, there is absolutely no benefit of having joint credit cards.
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31 March 2009 | 4 replies
Registering the domain name for the longest period possible, for instance: the benefit is search engines give the domain greater authority, which helps your rankings.
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8 September 2009 | 33 replies
However, the key difference is that Pyramid/Ponzi schemes don't usually offer any product or service and they make signing up others the only benefit.
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3 May 2009 | 62 replies
So, of course the benefit of that is that you already know how to hunt down killer deals, then if you have resources in place to hold half of your wholesale inventory at low prices, you're going to do pretty well AND have cash reserves in the long run.
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28 March 2009 | 25 replies
Not just for country (after all, we ARE the business people), but there are side benefits to making $1 BILLION.
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20 March 2009 | 6 replies
My wife and I will of course get the benefit of learning from people who have "been there, done that" and be able to possibly avoid the longer learning curve and pitfalls of roughing it on our own.
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27 June 2009 | 32 replies
The money and lifestyle are nice benefits, but that's not what attracted me back into REI.
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28 March 2009 | 8 replies
I never feel confident that the appraisor I don't know is going to do anything at all to benefit me.