Be careful of the internet sites like Zillow etc.

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States/municipalities begin to crack down in "sales" (although they use a different name for it) tax collections on sales over the internet.

But really seems to me its an indication the business model for broadcast TV has been damaged by both other sources of TV, the plethora of cable channels in particular, as well as the available of information and entertainment on the internet.

Maybe they'll start to pick up on the fact that maybe 72 virgins isn't the ideal if they can liberalize their women a bit and get 72 slutty broads instead.

I use electronic fax and internet phone.

I was always more of an internet guy, but the beauty of these colonial buildings just really sucked me in.After a while I started, renting, renovating and re-letting some of the properties, my colleagues and I have now about 70 properties we manage.We generate top google results for all our keywords and run a 51 (as of current) websites program to generate "free" leads without ad dollars.I regularly check in with luxury brokers around the world, and I learned and improved a lot reading descriptions of properties on the nytimes (halstead in particular) and wsj as well as some australian sites.It's been a couple of years, and we can consider ourselves top in the luxury market here.As mentioned above, I loved reading up on listings in the US and I'm looking forward to meeting some of you, expanding my network and hopefully work together in the future.In 2010 my goals are to expand into commercial real estate, and lay the basestones for a successful international business in the feature.I also want to ad a few sites to our network.Oliver

I am also seeking a mentor of any kind, locally or via the internet.

But more and more the appraisals are done as a "driveby" or "internet" appraisal, so those things do not really matter as much anymore, except maybe in the higher priced homes.

Based on my numbers I got from the internet real quick:4 units@$625/monthx12=30k30k/2=15k=my NOI.15k x10(cap rate) =150k.