Some ideas in my head are - Clothing, Jewelry, Stationary, Organic Foods, Global ethnic products to sell locally, Outdoor Sports, Coffee shop, Yogurt or Ice Cream Shop.I was thinking I could visit some of the local colleges and just market that I have the space for the right person/ biz plan.

During Wilma, we were in cat 5 for 42 hours and actually in the eye for NINE hours.

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Mostly, the senior will not bat an eye since it is very few dollars we are talking about and in the end it helps them avoid more losses.

Investors eye growth at job networking siteAssociated Press June 18, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Four venture capital firms are betting Internet start-up LinkedIn Corp. is worth $1 billion, highlighting the lofty hopes riding on online services that connect people with their friends, family and business associates.The valuation is implied by a $53 million investment being announced Wednesday from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners..... rest of the story at http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed-linkedin-investment-ventjun18,0,3358919.story

Agents are our eyes and ears for the local mkts.

This topic is eye opening.

Doesn't mean that city types won't take a few seconds and take a pic of your sign and follow up on Monday.Not sure if they still are, but we had a bounty on such signs, a bunch were hired to clean up the city, they got instructions and then got paid per sign brought in from fines.The trashing up of the city has been on the local news several times.You may be doing more harm in the public eye than you think you benefit from.Oh look, there is one of those bandit signs that "those" investors put out.

I know that German Shepherds are excellent seeing eye dogs.

That chapter was very enlightening and it opened my eyes even wider.Would I recommend this book?