Both Zillow.com and Trulia.com could vanish tomorrow, completely – websites crash and stay down forever –  and it would make ZERO difference, at all, in the successful sale of any home in Austin TX, or elsewhere in the U.S. Period. There is no hardship or selling disadvantage created for sellers or their listing agents if their real estate listings do not appear on these real estate entertainment and advertising websites because it is not the purpose of these consumer portal sites to sell homes, but instead to sell advertising to Real Estate Agents. These consumer sites not only fail to cause homes to sell, the websites fail to create smarter, better educated buyers and sellers. Instead, they create consumers exposed to bad data, and too much of it. Including the ridiculous Zestimate, which everyone knows is inaccurate but which nonetheless remains the “favorite” feature of Zillow.com users, according to Zillow. ... Read more

It’s the start of 2016 and already I’ve received a few inquiries from my investor clients wondering whether they should hold on to their rental property, or sell this year. It’s a conversation I have multiple times with multiple clients each year, and it’s a question Sylvia and I sometimes ask ourselves about our own rental property. Especially given the appreciation gains of the past 5 years in Austin. So this article will walk through some of the questions you might ask yourself when contemplating whether to sell your real estate asset, based on how I look at the question with my own rental properties. The first questions to ask yourself are: 1) Do you need the money? and 2) What will you do with the money? I normally don’t make it past those two questions, because the answers for me are are “no” and “I don’t know”. For most, ... Read more

And the real estate journey continues … Sylvia and I started Crossland Real Estate in Jan 1993, and remained independent until we sold our property management portfolio in 2004 and “retired” for a year. We didn’t actually formally retire … more of a sabbatical … as we were still in our 40s with kids 9 and 12. But we did take a year off from active real estate “production”. We weren’t sure whether we wanted to remain in real estate forever or not. I started a telecom services company and dabbled in Business Brokerage, both of which were interesting pursuits worthy of a full effort, and which I could have succeeded at doing, but after some time off from the daily real estate routine, something happened… The phone rang. It was Real Estate. It wanted us back. Sometimes distance from something brings perspective and a renewed appreciation of it. So, ... Read more

New York Times columnist Paul Sullivan recently wrote about this DJ posing as a financial advisor. It was one of those setups like you see on TV. They removed his dreadlocks and body piercings, put him in a suit, taught him some basic scripts like “a 401K is the way to go“, and had him meet with actual financial clients to discuss their financial needs and how he can help. When he went for the “close”, all but 1 client said they would work with him. He had zero experience, no qualifications (though I’ll bet his conversational skills helped). But since he looked the part and knew some buzz phrases, and the prospective clients didn’t know the right questions to ask, he was able to win their trust just by being nice and personable. The point of the experiment was to illustrate that the vast majority of financial clients do ... Read more

The Austin real estate market has begun to level off and slow down a bit, but that fact is not yet fully reflected in the market statistics, other than Days on Market creeping up. Nevertheless, Median Sold price is up to $322K, an increase of 8% over August 2017. I see more price drops coming across the listing update feeds I follow as well, and I also see more “back on market” listings.  This softening of the Austin real estate market may more fully appear in the September through December stats as I expect Days on Market to keep rising and price increases to slow. Real Estate cycles in Texas have traditionally run 4 to 7 years. We’re in year 7 of a continuous increase in prices, which is outpacing the very strong job growth Austin has enjoyed over the same period. But prices have run away from wages. Austin ... Read more

Toplumların ve modern dünyanın yöneldiği tek yön “aynılık”. Bizden istenilen, satır satır birbirimizin üstüne yığılmak ve kendimizi hep farklı hissettiğimizi düşünmemize ve istememize rağmen, birçok alışkanlıklarımızın ve yaptıklarımızın aynı olmasıyla […]

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Dikkatimi çeken güzel bir siteyi sizlerle paylaşmak istiyorum. Dunyabizim.com sitesi entellektüel yazılarla dolu, gündemin boş tartışmalarının dışında, fikir ve analiz paylaşan bir site. Malum, Filistin dediğimiz küçücük ada parçası yine […]

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Peygamber efendimiz (s.a.v.) Müslümanlar zulüme maruz kaldığı zaman, hanefi mezhebine göre sadece sabah namazının farzında, diğer bazı mezheplere göre ise vakit namazlarının farzının son rekatında “rabbenâvelekelhamd” denileceği zaman yani rükudan […]

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Iron Dome (Demir Kubbe) 2011 yılında, Amerikan’ın verdiği destek paralarıyla ve ARGE destekleriyle hazırlanan, füze-misil savunma sistemidir. İsrail Savunma firması Rafael İleri Defans Sistemi tarafından, tanesi 50 milyon dolardan 9 […]

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Dikkatinizi çekiyor mu bilmiyorum, toplumlar halinde yaşayan insanlar kendileriyle belli ahlak kavramları içerisinde adeta yarışıyorlar. Necip Fazıl’ın o veciz ifadesiyle, “oluklar çift, birinden nur akar birinden kir” dediği gibi. İyilikte […]

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Gazze şehitleri… Son 30 yılın en üzücü ve hüzünlü hikayesi Gazze’de kanla dolu bir sayfa kapanmak üzere. En azından bu sabaha kadar, katil İsrail anlaşmaya yanaşıyordu, bugün yine saldırı haberleri […]

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Uzun süredir ilk defa teknik bir konu paylaşıyorum. Yakın zamanda Opencart ile ilgilenmeye başladım. Sıfır kurulum Opencart’ta Türkiye ile uzaktan yakından alakası olmayan bir sürü modül ve eklenti geliyor. Eğer […]

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Emailleriniz SPAM’e düşmesin – DKIM – SPF ve DMARC Ayarları başlıklı yazımda gönderdiğiniz epostaların spam’e düşmemesi için yapılabilecek ayarlardan bahsettim. SPF kaydında bir konudan daha bahsedilmesi gerektiğini farkettim. SPF kaydındaki […]

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Türkiye’de hep negatif şeyler oluyor gibi göze çarpıyor ama hayat herşeye ve her türlü probleme rağmen devam ediyor ve güzel şeyler oluyor. Gözüme çarpan ve en çok hoşuma giden iki […]

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Awesome

Shame about the engine cutting out down steep hills

Wish Suzuki still made UJM styled shaft drive bikes; not everyone wants a Harley

Would buy again!

Scary fast and a major thrill ride

What an amazing machine

A surprisingly able and well performing mini cruiser/commuter

Good bike for women or men

More than an absolute beginner should get, but so well designed that only an idiot can mess it up

My choice

A true UJM - this bike is a jack of all trades, allowing for many riding styles

Learn how to use Google Forms as a time tracking app for studies and analyze how much time you spend on each subject. You can also analyze the study pattern with charts inside Google Sheets.

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Learn how to make photo slideshows for Instagram with Google Slides. You can showcase product demos, how-to guides and even use slideshows for visual storytelling.

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Learn how to use a Google Sheet to track product prices on Amazon shopping websites and get email alerts when the prices go down or up.

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Web Certain brings a new facility to online property marketers - news from around the web relating to property marketing - enjoy!

Suffolk estate agents, Bychoice, have incorporated a Suffolk property marketing blog into their range of services. The blog discusses all news which could impact on property values - or on the issues which affect property buyers and sellers.

For folks using Mac OS X 10.3.9 and enjoying widgets thanks to Mesa Dynamics’ Amnesty Widget Browser, I have posted the contents of the WidgetResources directory for download. Just unzip it and drop it in /System/Library/ and you will have access to widgets that are not “backwards compatible.”

I am excited to announce easily my most sophisticated widget ever, Sundial. In the past I have sort of hacked my widgets together. This project was for work, so I was really thorough and did things according to the Apple guidelines (imagine that!). What is Sundial, you ask? Sundial makes it easy to track time on projects through Basecamp. Check it out!

Looking for a secure, random WEP/WPA passkey generator? Check out Entropy. It’s like Make-A-Pass for wireless.

Safari 3 beta breaks widgets that use the search history feature of search input field types. I have put together a version of IP Locator with that feature disabled for anyone who wants to continue using it with the broken version of Safari. You can download it here. A bug has been filed with Apple and I suspect this will be a fairly high priority fix considering how many Dashboard widgets are affected.

Fans of GetDilbert might want to check out Out There. Out There is a Far Side-like comic written by George Webster. Good stuff!

Make-A-Pass generates secure, random passwords with the click of a button! This widget is highly configurable, similar to the online utility at WinGuides, but also including FIPS 181 capabilities. Note: most of the configuration options are on the back!

New in Version 2.5:

- Updated for Mac OS X Lion compatibility

In the vast realm of digital innovation, where every click and keystroke shapes the landscape, three remarkable individuals stand as beacons of excellence, each wielding their expertise to redefine the boundaries of possibility. We are honored to be able to sit down with the visionaries behind SEOPress, WP Weekly, and WP Academy, Monster's Award Winners, […]

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Do you want to build a portfolio website for your small business or personal project but don't know how to get started? Find the answer in the free eBook.

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Gutenberg editor has users offering contradictory opinions about it. Some people consider it to be a really convenient tool, while others have different favorites. But what is it really like?

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Download a free eBook to learn how to launch a wedding website with the minimum investment.

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More and more people prefer staying at home to work. And, yes, today we will have a small talk about it.

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