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Daily Archives: March 9, 2013
What ‘distributed everything’ means for real estate | Bedford NY Real Estate
Distribution is a trend we’d all better get used to. Distributed computing, distributed manufacturing, distributed power generation — it seems that everything that can be distributed will.
It isn’t the same old-school put-stuff-in-trucks kind of distribution. Actual productive activities are being distributed.
Technologies like 3-D printing distribute the manufacture of goods much closer to the places where they will actually be used.
Distributed power generation — via wind, solar or microturbines — is producing electricity much closer to where it is actually used.
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No heat, let alone fire, in jobs report | Pound Ridge Real Estate
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One of many roads converging on perdition: quarreling with economic reports.
Many people do, usually for political-conspiracy reasons, but professionals are trained not to. You’re told from day one: “Don’t fight the tape.” Don’t fight the news, or the market.
Today I’m going to.
At dawn today came glorious news: In February the nation added 236,000 jobs, and the prior two months were revised up another 61,000, in sum double the forecast.
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Crowdfund your real estate costs | Bedford Corners Real Estate
Elizabeth Kulik and Barry Barovick, along with Jason Kulik, recently launched ProHatch, or what they call a crowdfunding incubator. It’s not the first crowdfunding website out there, as the better-known Kickstarter and Indiegogo are already senior companies in the space for “crowd” financing.
One of the major differences between ProHatch and those that have launched before is that Elizabeth Kulik and Barovick are longtime veterans of the real estate industry, both having been in the C-suite of Grubb & Ellis, with Barovick at one time holding the title of CEO.
Although ProHatch offers crowdfunding services for a number of different services and industries, one of its focuses is real estate, which is, of course, a subject near and dear to the hearts of Kulik and Barovick.
I recently spoke with the two, asking how crowdfunding could change the way real estate would be financed in the future.
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4 musts when hiring a home improvement contractor | Chappaqua Real Estate
Q: I’m now getting estimates to add a front porch to my house. What is the standard way to check on the licensing and insurance of the contractor, and the standard method of payment, such as certain percentage paid upfront or at the finish? –Connie D.
A: There are actually a couple of steps that I recommend to anyone looking to hire a contractor:
1. Know specifically what you want to have done. The more information you have available for the contractor, the better.
2. Try to get personal referrals, rather than relying on the phone book. If you have a friend or a relative who had some work done on their home that they were pleased with, that’s a great starting point. You can get some honest feedback about the contractor’s skill level, price, scheduling, level of cooperation, and much more. There are a lot of contractors out there to choose from, and, like most businesses, they succeed or fail mostly by their reputation, so a good referral is very helpful.
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Bauhaus-style architecture too ‘severe’ for its own good | Armonk Real Estate
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Almost a century ago, the once-flourishing school of design known as the international style represented architecture’s highest hopes for the 20th century. Though it fell far short of its expectations, it left us with a valuable lesson — that theories alone can’t make for a humane environment.
The international style was really more of a social philosophy than a style. Its roots reach back to post-World War I Europe, where widespread social problems convinced many architects that a revolutionary change in architecture was in order. To them, this meant discarding every trace of the historically based styles of the past and replacing them with a completely “modern” architecture.
The most famous proponent of these radical views was a German school of design known as the Bauhaus. By the late 1920s, the Bauhaus was proposing austere new forms of architecture meant to provide the masses with clean, dignified housing, workplaces and civic buildings. At the same time, they theorized, these buildings would raise the moral and spiritual levels of their occupants.
The Bauhaus rejected ornament as a useless trapping of the elite and replaced it with the so-called “machine aesthetic,” producing buildings that were intentionally stark and severe. Traditional pitched roofs were discarded in favor of flat roofs with little or no overhang. Windows were replaced by great walls of glass that frequently couldn’t be opened, and walls were left plain and invariably painted an antiseptic white. Such designs soon began to find favor throughout Europe.
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South Salem NY Weekly Real Estate Report | RobReportBlog
South Salem NY Weekly Real Estate Report Homes for sale 70 Median Ask Price $609,499.00 Low Price $239,000.00 High Price $3,200,000.00 Average Size 2690 Average Price/foot $272.00 Average DOM 188 Average Ask Price $709,403.00
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Mt Kisco NY Weekly Real Estate Report | RobReportBlog
Mt Kisco NY Weekly Real Estate Report Homes for sale 49 Median Ask Price $899,000.00 Low Price $280,000.00 High Price $4,500,000.00 Average Size 3252 Average Price/foot $327.00 Average DOM 103 Average Ask Price $1,086,776.00
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Social Media Sites to Explore | Chappaqua Homes
When it comes to social media sites, there are so many options. Everyone knows the big ones: Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, YouTube. So I thought it would be interesting to share some lesser known social media sites that are gaining momentum and that offer a new social twist. In some cases, I have noted how these sites could potentially be used by small businesses to engage with their customers in a new way and differentiate themselves in the increasingly crowded social media space.
1 – ArchetypeME
Through a short quiz, this site helps discover your archetype and proposes content that would be interesting to you based on your profile. You can connect with friends and learn about their archetypes and preferences. Provides a novel approach to both content discovery and socializing.
2 – RebelMouse
RebelMouse consolidates the various stories / photos / videos you share online across different sites into a single space simply called a page (not very original). This allows you to direct your followers to your RebelMouse page (or pages – you can have more than one) or embed the pages directly on your website – creating dynamic content that updates regularly based on your activities on the bigger social media sites. RebelMouse is hoping this fresh content will be appealing to both individuals, as well as businesses. For a small fee, you can use your own URL.
3 – Storify
Instead of using your content to create your page, Storify lets you find content to create your story. You can use keywords to search several social sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, G+, YouTube) and come up with content for your story. You would then pull in the most relevant content (tweets, stories, photos, videos), add your own text if you wish to narrate the story and publish it on any one of your social sites, web site, or send it by e-mail. As an example, businesses can use this as an original way to tell a story of what others are saying about their products or services, or report on an event they attended or organized.
4 – About.me
About.me is like your digital business card. It presents you (or your business) on one page with links to all your social sites, a short bio, a few buttons to interact (favorite, e-mail, share, etc.), and a big beautiful background image that you can create. It is a great alternative to a full-blown website for freelancers and solopreneurs looking to promote themselves and gain exposure.
5 – ListGeeks
If sharing is caring, then you can show you care by sharing lists of things with your friends. Enter ListGeeks – it allows you to create your own lists of things by adding your own content (from websites) or using content from other people’s lists into your own list and sharing this with others. Sharing. Geeks. Lists. It’s almost too much for the mind to take in. From a business point of view, it could be an alternative to infographics, for sharing data internally and externally (ie. top 10 products, or most popular colors, or countries to which we ship the most products).
6 – Storylane
Storylane is probably the most personal of these seven sites in that it asks its users to write their own stories to share based on questions Storylane asks. Other users respond by sharing emotions (was impressed, likes it, wants it, agreed, was moved, …) and their own stories to the same question. Definitely a site for the more creative-minded seeking to make meaningful connections.
7 – 43things
43Things is social goal-setting site. You set your goal and 43Things will show you how many other people are working towards that same goal. You can discuss the goals, share how-to stories, and monitor progress with each other. Business might consider setting shared goals with their followers (ie. weight loss for a dietician, or fund-raising for a charity, …)
Which one is your favorite lesser known social media site?
The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns For February 2013 | Armonk NY Homes
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