So the maintenance in such houses are much lower compared to a fifty or hundred year old house.

There are some fascinating stories and movies on the explorers that came to this area hundreds of years ago.

I have been involved in hundreds of short sales over the years.

I know of one in Canada, but a lot of the info (financing, insurances, etc) are very different than in the US.Seems like there are hundreds of them out there, but how do I pick a 'good' one?

Realizing you are getting bent over backwards from hundreds/thousands of miles away isn't a great feeling.

I initially thought that bringing in 10% was a good place to start, but seeing people listing 15-20% returns just really confuses me.Are these gold mines, the one in a hundred type of properties?

NOTHING.It positively sickens me that someone, somewhere might actually fall for this garbage and lose a few hundred grand -- or more.The promoters of these scams belong in prison.

A publicly traded C-corp can have hundreds of thousands of shareholders.

After reading this, the first thing that came to mind was:Microsoft Windows pulls in about $13B in profit per year with margins of about 80%...Given that, why does Microsoft take 75% of that $13B and put it back into the 40,000 employees, hundreds of products and half-dozen business units not focused on Microsoft Windows?

They know they're leaving money on the table, and they simply don't care.I don't see how you could ever hope to replicate that sort of experience on a Web site.Again, though, if you've got a way to get a couple hundred leads a day and you need to get to the soft, chewy center of the handful who are OK with your wholesale pricing, that's what lead-scoring is all about.As with all marketing, there's only one way to know for sure.