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Learn Everything About Home Buying Here - Maynas Eric
Real estate can become overwhelming if you do not have a clear idea of how to search for a home or how to recognize a good deal. Preparing yourself to make smart real estate decisions through self-education is extremely important.
If you are planning on starting a family, your home should have plenty of space for everyone. Keep safety in mind, as well, particularly if a home has a swimming pool or stairs. Looking around at homes previously owned by families is a great way to find a family-friendly environment.
A house that needs a lot of improving and updates will be a little cheaper. Purchasing one of these lets you save money, and you can put work into the home at your pace and on your budget. You are increasing the value of your home with each improvement and have the flexibility to design it the way you want. So try to focus on what the house could be, or its potential, as opposed to looking at the negatives involved with its current state. A little fix up work can transform an ugly facade into your dream home!
TIP! When you are negotiating the price of real estate, it is best to have a moderate approach. Often, people who are too aggressive about trying to make the best possible deal work against their own best interests.
Commercial Property
Leverage a trustworthy partner so you can buy a bigger and better parcel of commercial property. It will facilitate the qualification process for the commercial property loan. Having someone backing you up can make it easier to gather the resources and credit required to secure a commercial loan.
Be flexible in making decisions. You might not get your perfect home, but you can afford another one. Consider all of the options that are available and weigh them out in terms of your preferred location, the desired features of the house and how much you can pay.
TIP! Find an honest, reputable partner that can be trusted when looking for an expensive, large commercial piece of real estate. It can make it way easier to get the loan you need.
Now is the perfect time to start investing in real estate. The market crashed, and prices as well as interest rates are extremely low right now. You won?t find a better time to make that move from renting to owning. In time, the market will increase again. This means you will have made a great investment purchase if you bought when prices were low.
Before purchasing a home in an unfamiliar neighborhood, check out that neighborhood using your state?s sex offender database. Even though data on sex offenders is publicly available, don?t be so sure that real estate agents and home sellers will feel obligated to give this information to potential buyers. Research it yourself for peace of mind.
Before you buy a house, hire a home inspector. A home inspector will look over every part of the property to ensure that you are not buying a house with serious issues that are unseen. An inspector will give you a good idea of how much renovations will cost you and how long they will take.
TIP! Try not to be discouraged if the seller of a home you want to purchase does not accept your offer, often times sellers are willing to negotiate different aspects of the sale with you, to make the sale still possible. They might offer to make certain repairs to the house, or even pay your closing costs.
You do not want to buy a house with fireplaces in multiple rooms, unless you live in a very cold climate. Learn more about fireplaces and find out how much getting one cleaned regularly costs before making your decision.
Real Estate Agent
Finding a respectable real estate agent is one of the most important parts of the home buying process. The real estate agent you select also needs to be trustworthy. Real estate agents with successful track records in selling homes can help you find just what you are looking for. Meet with different agents until you find one that you know will act as your advocate.
TIP! A lack of flexibility can be a death sentence when it comes to buying a home. Maybe you can?t live in the most perfect community and in the most perfect home, but you might be able to do one of those things.
If you are interested in buying part, or all, of a building for housing business operations, verify that it?s located in a good area. Opening your business in a terrible neighborhood can prevent you from having a large client base. Talk to a professional to find the best locations.
If you are looking to buy a new home, remember that there are more important things than decoration. You must get a house based on the way it was built and the shape it has. If you are finding yourself more drawn to a home?s decor, you might become oblivious to more costly issues that will come up after you make the purchase.
Get a home warranty. This is an important thing to ask for whether you are purchasing directly from a builder or from a previous owner. The person who built the home should give you a warranty if he or she is confident in their work. The people who previously owned the home should agree to buy a warranty for a year at minimum to assist you in offsetting any possible repairs.
TIP! Buying a fixer upper is a great way to save money and invest wisely. You will benefit from the immediate return on the money you put in because the value of your property will go up.
Always have your goals at the forefront of your mind as you are preparing to purchase a property. You should be aware of whether your goals are to be accomplished in either the short or long term. Only consider investments that will help you reach your goals. A lot of owners make compromises and buy something that does not satisfy them or even lose money.
Look for the house of your dreams. While many investors will tell you that now is not the time to sell and buy a larger home, others disagree. However, since the housing market is perpetually rising, you might as well buy the house you?ve always wanted now. If you buy a smaller home instead, the house you really wanted may be too expensive for you by the time you?re ready to move.
Listen to the advice of your real estate agent, do your own research, and have a checklist to complete all necessary paperwork when buying a home. If you keep everything you just read in mind, you?ll avoid common mistakes and problems that many first-time home buyers experience. Hopefully this information will allow you to enjoy your new purchase.
TIP! Educate yourself thoroughly on mortgage loan terms if you are in the market to purchase a home. It is essential that you know exactly how much you will be paying every month and what the total cost of the loan over the entire length of the mortgage will amount to.
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Uber brings back on-demand ice cream trucks
NEW YORK (AP) ? Don't scream for ice cream. Just pick up your smartphone.
Uber, the San Francisco startup known for letting people order private drivers in sleek black cars using a smartphone app, is offering an ice cream-on-demand service ? for one day only ? in more than three dozen cities around the world, including New York, Philadelphia, London, Singapore and Rome.
Friday's stunt, an expansion of last year's ice cream promotion, comes in the midst of a sticky heat wave in New York City and elsewhere. Last year, people in seven U.S. and Canadian cities could use the Uber app to summon an ice cream truck hired by Uber to their location, provided they purchased a minimum number of treats. But demand exceeded supply, and not everyone who wanted ice cream got it.
"In San Francisco last year, we had so much demand that in order for everyone to get ice cream, we would have had to have 1,000 trucks on the road," Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said. "That's a city with 1,500 cabs."
On normal days, Uber lets people order a ride in a taxi, a regular car, a high-end sedan or an SUV using its smartphone app, after they register for the service with their credit card information. Rates depend on where you are. In San Francisco, for example, a ride from the San Francisco airport to the city ranges from $50 to $85.
Kalanick, who co-founded Uber in 2009, said that although there is no way to meet all the demand for ice cream, "there is going to be crisp communication" that it is very limited supply.
But for those who do get ice cream, he added, it's "a magical experience" to be able to push a button and summon an ice cream truck ? or in the case of Italian cities, a gelato truck.
People will have to order more than one cone to have a truck come to them. Depending on the city, six ice creams will cost $20 to $35. The trucks will be out from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time. Three cities ? Miami, Houston and Portland, Ore. ? will have the ice cream service available even though local laws don't allow car-hailing apps like Uber to operate, Kalanick said. Uber is currently available in 35 cities, up from about a dozen at this time last year.
This is the second one-day promotion from Uber this summer. On July 3, the company offered to shuttle people to the Hamptons, the swanky seaside towns on New York's Long Island, in a chopper at a cost of $3,000 for five people.
After Friday, those craving ice cream will have to resort to more traditional means of acquiring their treats.
"We are not going to be an ice cream delivery company," Kalanick said.
The U.S. cities with the promotion are: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Ore., Sacramento, Calif., San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Uber is also doing this in Toronto; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Amsterdam; Berlin and Munich, Germany; London; Lyon and Paris, France; Milan and Rome, Italy; Stockholm and Singapore.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
PFT: Gay former NFL player felt safest at work
Getty ImagesWe?re rolling out our own list of the Top 100 players in the NFL this month, with the first 25 names unveiled today.
Although this wasn?t our intention (the list is ordered solely based on the way our panel of NFL media members cast their votes), the first name we?re unveiling, at No. 76, happens to be a player whose presence on the list will be the subject of a great deal of debate. We?re sure plenty of you will agree, plenty will disagree, and you?ll have a lot to say in the comments.
The Bottom 25 of PFT?s Top 100 are below.
76 Tony Romo, quarterback, Cowboys
77 Doug Martin, running back, Buccaneers
78 Frank Gore, running back, 49ers
79 Carl Nicks, guard, Buccaneers
80 Maurice Jones-Drew, running back, Jaguars
81 Vernon Davis, tight end, 49ers
82 Evan Mathis, guard, Eagles
83 Alfred Morris, running back, Redskins
84 Joe Haden, cornerback, Browns
85 C.J. Spiller, running back, Bills
86 Calais Campbell, defensive end, Cardinals
87 Matthew Stafford, quarterback, Lions
88 Antonio Cromartie, cornerback, Jets
89 Jason Peters, offensive tackle, Eagles
90 Jordan Gross, offensive tackle, Panthers
91 Mike Pouncey, center, Dolphins
92 Mike Wallace, receiver, Dolphins
93 Reggie Wayne, receiver, Colts
94 Ed Reed, safety, Texans
95 Henry Melton, defensive tackle, Bears
96 Lance Briggs, linebacker, Bears
97 Steve Smith, receiver, Panthers
98 Antoine Winfield, cornerback, Seahawks
99 Max Unger, center, Seahawks
100 Matt Forte, running back, Bears
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Monday, July 1, 2013
'Unimaginable that this even happened'
By Tim Gaynor
PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) - Fire investigators in central Arizona launched a probe on Monday into how wind-driven flames closed in on and killed 19 specially trained firemen in a tragedy that marked the greatest loss of life among firefighters in a U.S. wildland blaze in 80 years.
The precise circumstances surrounding Sunday's deaths of all but one of a 20-member elite "hotshots" firefighting team remained unclear a day after they perished while battling a blaze that has destroyed scores of homes and forced the evacuation of two towns.
But fire officials said the young men fell victim to a volatile mix of erratic winds gusting to gale-force intensity, low humidity, a sweltering heat wave, and thick, drought-parched brush that had not burned in some 40 years.
The doomed firefighters had managed to deploy their personal fire shelters, tent-like safety devices designed to deflect heat and trap breathable air, in a last-ditch effort to survive that ultimately proved futile, officials said.
Peter Andersen, a former local Fire District chief who assisted in the early firefighting efforts, told Reuters some of the men on the ground made it into their shelters and some did not, according to an account relayed by a ranger helicopter crew flying over the area.
"There was nothing they (helicopter crew) could do to get to them," he said.
Still, conditions faced by the "hotshots," a ground crew that fights flames at close range with hand tools and serves as the shock troops in a firefighting force, were typical for the wildfires they are trained to battle, fire officials said.
Standard safety protocols followed by such crews appeared to be in place, and investigators are trying to determine exactly what went wrong in this instance, they said.
"It had to be a perfect storm in order for this to happen. Their situational awareness and their training was at such a high level that it's unimaginable that this has even happened," Prescott Fire Department spokesman Wade Ward told ABC's "Today" program.
STARTED BY LIGHTNING
The blaze was ignited on Friday by lightning near the town of Yarnell, about 80 miles (128 km) northwest of Phoenix, and by Monday was still raging unchecked after scorching some 8,400 acres (3,400 hectares) of tinder-dry chaparral and grasslands.
Authorities ordered the evacuation of Yarnell and the adjoining town of Peeples Valley. The two towns are southwest of Prescott and home to roughly 1,000 people.
A Yavapai County Sheriff's Office spokesman said on Sunday at least 200 structures had been destroyed, most of them in Yarnell, a community consisting largely of retirees. And fire officials said most of the building lost were homes.
Authorities on Monday said that figure was a rough estimate and that a more accurate assessment of property losses was expected later.
The so-called Yarnell Hills blaze was one of dozens of wildfires in several western U.S. states in recent weeks. Experts have said the current fire season could be one of the worst on record.
Sunday's disaster in Arizona marks the highest death toll among firefighters from a U.S. wildland blaze since 29 men died battling the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
The association lists seven incidents in the United States during the past century that killed as many or more firefighters than on Sunday in Arizona. The costliest saw the deaths of 340 firefighters in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
Arizona Forestry Commission spokesman Mike Reichling said one member of the 20-man crew had been driving in a separate location and survived unhurt. Eighteen of the dead were members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots team, assigned to the Prescott Fire Department, and the 19th victim belonged to another crew who was working with the fallen team, Reichling said.
WARNING FROM A BOW HUNTER
Evacuee Rick McKenzie, 53, a bow hunter and ranch caretaker, said the fire had "exploded" on Sunday, with flames 30 to 40 feet high (9 to 13 meters) racing across an area of oak and brush and that he had warned the Hotshots about the dense oak woods where they would be working.
"I said, 'If this fire sweeps down the mountain to the lower hills where all this thick brush is, it's going to blow up, guys, you need to watch it,'" said McKenzie, who had taken refuge at a Red Cross shelter at Yavapai College.
The Hotshots were highly trained firefighters with rigorous fitness standards. All were required to take an 80-hour critical training course and refresher yearly, according to the group's website.
"Our common bond is our love of hard work and arduous adventure," the website said.
Scorching heat is expected to last for the first part of the week, meteorologists said.
The deaths brought an outpouring of tributes on Sunday from political leaders, including from President Obama, who is on an official trip to Africa.
In a statement, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer called the deaths "one of our state's darkest, most devastating days."
She ordered state flags flown at half staff from Monday through Wednesday.
Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said in a statement: "This devastating loss is a reminder of the grave risks our firefighters take every day on our behalf in Arizona and in communities across this nation. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten."
(Writing by Steve Gorman; Additional reporting by David Schwartz; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou and Sofina Mirza-Reid)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/investigators-launch-probe-death-19-arizona-firefighters-182939400.html
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Why Roller Coasters Make You Vomit and Scream
Ever wonder why roller coasters can make even the strongest of stomachs feel like they're turning inside out? Or why, as you seemingly dangle dangerously upside down, you never quite feel like you're actually upside down? And did you know that some of the force you feel along the way has the potential to "cause brains to bleed and eyeballs to explode?"
Well, lucky for you, The Washington Post has come up with this wonderful, interactive animation that explains how roller coaster designers play with G-force and physics to give you that safe, contained feeling of absolute terror. Faint of heart are more than welcome. [The Washington Post via Digg]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/why-roller-coasters-make-you-vomit-and-scream-634073082
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Mandela still critical, Zuma says hopes he will leave hospital soon
COMMENTARY | With the sesquis?sequic?.the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, as well as the Fourth of July weekend coming up, it's a good time to beat the heat and see some history. Here are the five best Civil War films to see, and three you might want to take a pass on.
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