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I WANTED TO START A BLOG SO I HAVE PLEASE BARE WITH ME AS I LEARN HOW TO DO THINGS ON HERE AS I HAVE BEEN HAVING SOME EDITING PROBLEMS AND I HAVE USED SPELL CHECK AND SOME TIMES AS I TYPE FAST AND TRY AND POST I DONT GET EVERYTHING I WOULD LIKE SPELLED RIGHT -SO PLEASE BARE WITH ME - AS IN MY LAST BLOG I MISSED SPELLED WEBSITE AS I WAS IN HURRY TO POST IT AND THEN CAME BACK TO FIX IT AND IT DIDNT LET ME DO SOME THINGS I WANTED TO DO -THE AD YOU SEE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SALES AD TO HAVE PICTURES TAKEN OF YOUR HOME AND SHOULD IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PRICING OF WWW.USEYOURADDRESS.COM THANKS WWW.SUPERHOMERENTALS.COM

San Jose Mercury News - Real estate agents warn about thieves

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Real estate agents warn about thieves

By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer

Article Launched: 11/29/2007 11:40:36 AM PST

NEW YORK—Real estate agents have standard advice for homeowners planning their first open house: Hire a cleaning service. Drop the pets off with a neighbor. And lock up your valuables because you never know who may be stopping by.

Over two recent Sundays, a pair of women posing as wealthy home buyers visited at least six open houses at luxury homes in Manhattan and Upper Saddle River, N.J., and, police say, made off with jewelry and trinkets worth more than $73,000.

The haul included expensive handbags by Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Coach; earrings, bracelets and an alarm clock from Tiffany; a fur coat, jackets, diamonds—even a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne.

The theft and subsequent arrests of two women, Jessica Joyner and Jennifer Jones, were splashed all over the tabloids this week and got real estate agents talking about renewed vigilance against the rare sticky-fingered visitor.

A few large apartment buildings even changed their policies on open houses, adding a requirement that visitors show photo identification in the lobby.

"This has created a lot of shock," said Pamela Liebman, president and chief executive of the Corcoran Group, one of the city's biggest real estate agencies.

But, she added, sellers shouldn't worry. "I've been in the business for 20 years, and there are very, very few instances where this happens."

Open houses are practically a sport in real estate-obsessed New York, with some drawing

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hundreds of house hunters in a short window of time. That makes it tough for brokers to keep an eye on everyone.

Even with home sales slumping across the country, the industry still looks to open houses to lure a maximum number of potential buyers.

Carol Burnett, a vice president at Alain Pinel Realtors, which has 23 offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, said it's common for brokers in strong markets to send a second agent to high-traffic open houses just to help keep an eye on customers.

Agents also ask sellers to help keep theft opportunities to a minimum.

"I never want to see jewelry out on display," Rochelle Bass, an executive vice president at Bellmarc Realty, another top Manhattan brokerage, wrote in an e-mail.

Other tips: Stash prescription drugs out of sight, even if that means removing them from the medicine cabinet; lock up checkbooks and any sensitive mail; hide items like cameras and watches in a suitcase under the bed.

Stephanie Singer, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Realtors, said sellers posting photos of their homes online might want be careful too. "Make sure the photos are ... not highlighting your prized possessions," she said.

Corcoran's Liebman said brokers shouldn't hesitate to confront someone who arouses suspicion.

"If somebody looks strange, or they are just looking around in the wrong way, ask questions, tell them to sign the register and ask for an ID," she said. "Don't be afraid to ask someone to leave and don't allow the place to get overwhelmed."

Prosecutors said Joyner, 39, and Jones, 33, did their best to look like well-heeled buyers.

Both came dressed like Upper East Side socialites, arriving in a Jaguar. According to police, one would distract the broker, while the other looked for things to steal.

The pair behaved bizarrely enough, though, that they attracted attention. A doorman wrote down their license plate number as they left one open house.

And on Nov. 11, an agent showing a $1.9 million three-bedroom duplex on the Upper West Side grew suspicious and went looking for one of the women who had drifted out of sight.

"When he walked in, she was throwing jewelry into a bag," said Douglas Heddings, a senior vice president at Prudential Douglas Elliman.

The women fled before police arrived, but Heddings posted images from the building's security camera on his real estate blog,

http://www.truegotham.com

, to alert other brokers and the public.

Joyner and Jones were arrested last weekend on charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen property and were being held this week on $30,000 bail.

A lawyer for the women said Joyner suffers from "serious and ongoing chronic medical and psychiatric issues" and that Jones had a medical condition that caused severe pain.

After the case was reported on New York television stations, police in New Jersey recognized similarities to thefts at a pair of open houses in Upper Saddle River.

When the women were taken into custody, they were wearing some of the jewelry that had been taken from those homes, police said.

Most of the $60,000 in items taken from those homes has now been recovered.

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San Jose Mercury News - Those who rent instead of own look smarter these days

San Jose Mercury News - Those who re

Those who rent instead of own look smarter these days

NO WORRIES ABOUT FALLING PRICES, MAINTENANCE COSTS

By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post

Article Launched: 11/29/2007 05:14:04 PM PST

WASHINGTON - At 48, Sheryl Bottner is still a renter, and she's proud of it. In fact, she has no intention of buying a home. Not now. Not ever.

Ask her about the "American Dream" of homeownership, and she is resolute in her response.

"I have heard that from my friends for several years," she said. "I had to look at them and say, 'That's your American dream. That's not my American dream.' "

Many of these renters by choice regard themselves as winners as they watch home prices fall in parts of the country and homeowners struggle to pay their adjustable-rate mortgages.

"I don't want to get involved in this 'it's a sellers' market, it's a buyers' market, the subprime mortgage problem,' " said Bottner, a Web communications manager for the National Academy of Sciences.

But have they really won? With the weakening prices and still-low interest rates, economists and housing experts are questioning the wisdom of continuing to sit out of the housing market. Now is the perfect time to buy, they say, because waiting too long might mean a higher interest rate.

"It does not take much in rising interest rates to wipe out the savings in price decline," said Gregory Leisch, chief executive of Delta Associates, a real estate research firm in suburban Alexandria, Va.

So if you're considering joining the ranks of die-hard renters or following the American tradition of owning a home instead, what should you do?

"The

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simple answer is that it's not simple," said Mike Larson, a real estate analyst for Weiss Research in Jupiter, Fla.

There was a time when it was simpler. That is, when it cost less to own than to rent. Ten years ago, according to Moody's

Economy.com

, the average annual cost of owning a home - including mortgages, taxes and maintenance costs - was $10,231 nationally, compared with $13,090 for renting.

Then things changed. Owning became more expensive than renting in the first quarter of 2004, and that trend has persisted. In the second quarter of this year, nationwide, the average annual cost of owning a home was $17,707, compared with $15,721 for renting.

"In the last four years, rent became a four-letter word. No one wanted to rent. They looked down upon it . . ." said Larson. "I think a lot of people just assumed buying makes sense. They drank the Kool-Aid and unfortunately are finding themselves now in a tough spot."

There are many reasons why housing costs increased, economists say. First, lenders promoted exotic mortgages that did not require large down payments, if any, leaving homeowners with large monthly payments. Second, because interest rates were at record lows, people bought more house than they could afford.

Proponents of homeownership say the benefits offset those high housing costs.

The federal government has aggressively pushed homeownership - President Bush once called for an "ownership society" - through its mortgage interest deduction and its creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy mortgages from lenders. Such efforts, coupled with creative financing from banks, drove the national homeownership rate to a high of 69.2 percent in 2004 before it dropped to 68.2 percent in the third quarter of this year.

"The mortgage interest is tax-deductible as opposed to rent, which is not," said Heather Evans, vice president and wealth management adviser at a suburban Merrill Lynch office.

Plus, if you get a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, your monthly payment will remain the same for that time. True, your taxes and insurance might increase. But rents could rise more precipitously. "Your rent is eventually going to double where your mortgage isn't," Evans said.

History has shown that housing prices eventually rise after real estate busts.

"Everything is cyclical. This isn't like a forever thing. The stock market goes up and down, and the housing market goes up and down," said Susan Black, director of financial planning at eMoney Advisor.

So you will eventually build equity in your home - if you keep it long enough.

If you have a job that might move you in a couple of years, it's probably not a good idea to buy, Evans, Black and other housing experts said.

If you hope to make money off your home, or at least break even, be prepared to own it for a long time. And don't forget to factor in the costs of selling the property. Sellers typically have to pay real estate agents 6 percent of the sales price, and there are other fees owed to the bank and city you live in.

"The place has to appreciate 5 to 10 percent at minimum," Leisch said. "Therefore, you shouldn't plan on holding the place for less than three years."

Or longer, say other experts.

"Don't think of a home as an investment," said John McIlwain, senior fellow on housing for the Urban Land Institute. "It may well help build your wealth, but don't buy a home just because you want to make money. There was a time years ago when people were making money, but homes are to be lived in."

And to be lived in, they must be maintained.

"You need to have extra cash flow . . . for monthly upkeep of the home," Black said. "What if your heater breaks? What if your air conditioner breaks?"

That's one reason Duncan Chaplin, 47, still rents.

"I don't mind repairing things. I can do it. But boy, my landlord is great at it," he said.

Renting has also been financially more prudent for him. He has lived in the same Washington building since 1997, and his rent, he says, has not increased much. He declined to say how much he pays per month but called it "cheap." "It seems I've done much better than most people in terms of rent," he said.

When Chaplin, a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, considers how much he has for a down payment and how much he would have to pay to own a comparable home in his neighborhood, staying put in his two-bedroom rental makes sense.

"It seems to me like investing in a house for the sake of money is almost always a mistake if you want to reduce risk," he said. "So it seems to me that it makes more sense to put your money in the stock market."

Bottner owned a home in Arizona for six years. It was her then-husband's at first. She bought a stake in it but let him keep the house when they divorced in 1995.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time. After a while, I felt that all I was doing was fixing things," said Bottner, who now rents a suburban one-bedroom apartment for $1,205 a month. "Owning a home is not all it's cracked up to be."

Renters also avoid many of the other extra expenses homeowners face: property taxes, homeowners insurance, homeowners association or condominium fees, and, in many cases, utilities. As a renter, some or all monthly utility bills might be included in the rent. Probably not so when you own a home, unless the association fees cover them.

That's why Shalonda Long, 31, a property manager, said she has "no desire" to ever be a homeowner. She lives in a rented two-bedroom suburban townhouse with her husband and mother. She doesn't worry about taxes, paying for repairs, or the market's ups and downs.

"I don't think I've ever had a desire to own a home," she said. "I remember watching my parents cutting the grass and whining about taxes. Homeownership works for some. It doesn't work for me."

Unlike Long, Susan Raneri thinks homeownership will work for her someday - just not before the end of next year. Raneri said she doesn't want to repeat some of her friends' mistakes.

"I just saw a lot of people around me buying things that were risky," said Raneri, who recently signed another one-year lease for a rental in Baltimore. "I just don't think it's a wise idea to be buying something when you can get it for $100,000 or $200,000 less two years later."

nt instead of own look smarter these days

TED TURNER MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND

*** note I gave the website address to kids alliance in my last blog wrong it is www.kids-alliance.org it is kids with a (s) SORRY about that . I call Ted Turner my childhood friend as I knew him when I was a child - growing up in Ga . I would go to the baseball games in Atlanta - then it was Fulton County Stadium -he would sit up on top of the dugout drinking Bud in this lawn chair watching the game .I spoke to him a few times then and more over the years visiting him at his office and him to stop and say hi when in Albany , he was the reason I wanted to go to Brown University -then one night he did some thing at a bar that got him out of baseball for a while -he is the reason I sail today - he was lost at sea for a while,him being the only one who survived - I can recall when his dad died -he killed him self Ted selling billboard ad's to my father - he came along way from Tybee Island were my family use to vacation - today the question is again WHY -Why is Ted Turner buying all that land ? Ted just got 26,300 acres for 10 million dollars -south Ga peanuts to him - Ted now has close to over 2 million acres of land he has become the largest private landowner in the country .Owning land in 9 states filling it with bison -some people think its about water -I think its about MEAT - there's a lot of funny things about Ted he does not like ac never uses it in his cars nether do I (unless the kids are with me on a hot day other then a beach outing ) -he has his own Ted commandment's ( TEN OF THEM ) he use to have these decanters in his office I have not been there in years so I don't know if he still has them they were of wild turkey I think -I say all this as he knows things how to prepare for the future look at CNN who knew we would need news 24 /7 and cable tv one day and he does strange things ( JANE FONDA COUNTS! ) - For all his conservation he offers $11,000 dollars hunting trips for a week to kill elk -so the bison is about meat - what I mean is this -CHINA - what if Ted who now has entered the restaurant business with Ted's Montana Grill that features bison is able to sell meat to the ever growing China -bison meat.He owns the largest herd in the world 45,000 plus --many of them on his land in Nebraska. Bison need less attention then cattle, with China growing and mad cow disease out there it is something to think about -My dad use to say he didn't want to own all the land in the world ''just all the land that touches his ''. well on the run -Allan www.superhomerentals.com Jacksonville ,Fla's home rental superstore

BUSINESS TODAY & EBAYPAYPAL20

Today I wrote a guy on eBay that was selling cell phones -as I thought I would buy a few -the reason was as Christmas is coming I wanted a few pre-paid cell phones to give as gifts for our charity the http://www.kid-allianace.org/ that's the charity that helps foster kids exiting the system .The idea behind the cell phones was as some of these older kids exit they will be looking for jobs -how do employers get in touch with them -so I thought why not their own cell phone were they can have the employer call them and they can call them or if the older foster child needs to be picked up having looked for work or what ever maybe something as simple as being picked up from a doctor's office visit -that they would have their own pre-paid phone - so I looked and fell in love with a lite weight Motorola gsm c186i - The reason is it is lite weight small fits in the pocket and also comes with a web browser and a radio so if they are waiting for a bus or a ride they can listen to the radio -so I got on eBay and wrote a guy here in Jacksonville ,Fl that I would love to have his phone number - He wrote me back WHY -in today's business world that is unreal to me -why are you in business -to talk to customers and try and get them to buy your items- right -here is the emails exchanged: (FROM ME ) please call me at 738 -5401 Allan thanks -- www.SuperHomeRentals.com (FROM HIM)

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From: ALYHA INVESTMENTS
To: ebaypaypal20@gmail.com
Sent: Nov 28, 2007 12:55 PM
Subject: item on ebay

please call me at 738 -5401 Allan thanks
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(FROM ME )

Subject: Re: item on ebay


i wanted to buy three of these but never mind as i live in orange park i was hoping to met you and pick them up BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I ASK ANY BUSINESS PERSON FOR THEIR PHONE NUMBER AND THEY REFUSE - YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST PERSON WHO SELLS ITEMS OR HAS A BUSINESS THAT ASK WHY -I DONT LIKE THAT AS A BUSINESS PERSON WHO HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR CLOSE TO 25 YEARS AND OWNS 20 COMPANY'S -TAKE FROM ME THAT IS VERY UNPROFESSIONAL ! HAVE A GREAT DAY I WILL BUY ELSE WERE

(FROM HIM)
Look ass wipe. Ebay isn't the place where you give out your phone number. Plus you obviously are foriegn and suffer from good english skills and you are probably using these phone for terorrist activities. Go back to whatever Arab nation you came from fuck face. Don't bother me anymore.

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NICE EMAIL BACK HUH -

A few months ago I saw an ad for a virtual office assistant so I emailed the person who place the ad as she was looking for work and told her my company name and that is saw her ad and would like to have her number to call her and talk about her rates and services - respond to me WHY -So I reminded her of the ad and she emailed me back "do i know you " I wrote back to her very nice saying no I saw your ad and was wondering what you charged as I was looking for some one to do some work -answer was one word --you guessed it WHY -MY QUEATION IS WHY ARE YOU IN BUSINESS - USE TO BE TO MAKE THE CUSTOMER HAPPY ! -My dad owned a restaurant for close to 37 years every day we worked it make people feel special when they ate with us - we would get people who would travel from far places to eat there at our seafood place as they spent special times their birthdays and anniversaries there .We even had a few weddings there -we saw family's there ,mom ,dad, grandma and granddad -those were special times as those times today are what people call the good old days - when I email people today I always include one of my websites as some of you know I have close to 40 websites and companies -so people can see I am a business ,We are on Dunn and Bradstreet--We been in newspapers, magazines ,its just amazing to me this WHY - I wanted to buy three cell phones but my heart wanted me to buy like 25 and I thought about it -as I love the phone and there is the need -to be honest I am glad I dealt with this guy as I would have hated for some foster kid to have had to deal with him had I got the phones from him and one of the kids had to call him for some reason the phone didn't work /broke -what ever it could have been -so I am off looking for some one else to buy them from -as a person who trys and spends his money in the town he lives in I am upset at this guy -yes, he was local as I was hoping I could get them here so I could save on shipping and get more phones -but that's not the case - So I found them in Tx so I will buy from there - this guy said some rude things called me foreign , and that I wanted to do terrorist activities and I should go back to my Arab nation - I am a united states citizen having been born here and my mom and dad I am not even arab having been raised in southwest ,Ga Albany and in Panama City ,Fl- and I was buying some cell phones for some foster kids who really need them -I guess he thinks:

ALYHA INVESTMENTS IS FOREIGN AN ARAB COMPANY -ALYHA IS REALLY TO ME IS ALYAH AS SHE IS A 2 YEAR GIRL THAT I NAMED MY COMPANY AFTER THAT WAS IN FOSTER CARE HERE IN JACKSONVILLE ,FL AS AT THE TIME I DIDN'T KNOW HOW HER NAME WAS SPELLED SO I SPELLED IT THAT WAY -

I WAS ABLE TO MAKE A GINGERBREAD HOUSE WITH HER LAST NIGHT AND WATCH SHARK TAILS -TUCK HER INTO BED AND KISS HER GOODNIGHT AND THEN WHEN SHE WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I WAS ABLE TO PUT HER IN TO BED WITH HER MOTHER -THEN WHEN I WOKE THIS MORNING SHE WAS NEXT TO ME -I HELP PUT HER IN HER STROLLER AS SHE WENT TO DAY CARE AND I WALKED THE TWO BLOCKS TO TAKE HER TWO BROTHERS TO SCHOOL - TODAY I LEARNED ABOUT SAFETY -I AM GLAD I HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE WHO I THINK IS SAFE FOR THE KIDS I LOVE -

ON THE RUN -ALLAN - CEO OF ALYHA INVESTMENTS

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MY PlANS FOR THE NEXT FEWS WEEKS

My plans for the next few weeks is to try and write more in my blog and hopefully some one will read it .I plan on posting some of the events in Jacksonville,fl on here and you can also look for them at www.eventful.com A few things coming up in Jacksonville is the Christmas Made in the South - and also the Mayor's Holiday Festival for Senior Citizens for more info on that check out www.coj.net -also don't forget the Nutcracker is coming to town on Dec 7 ,8 -tickets are $23 dollars you can go to www.floridatheatre.com -i will up date this with more info on whats happening this holiday in the Jax area -also dont forget who's coming to town you can see him at THE AVENUES MALL AND ORANGE PARK MALL AND REGENCY SQUARE MALL AND THE ST.JOHNS TOWN CENTER i will update you with the times and days as he is very busy this time of year ON THE RUN -ALLAN www.superhomerentals.com

THANKSGIVING AND THE KIDS

Thanksgiving is a time family gets together .My girlfriend Liz grew up in foster care I remember our first date .As we drove over a bridge her telling me she had lost her daughter and her boys due to her drug use and how she had went to rehab and was working on getting her back as her two boys were with their dad . And that she her self had been raised in foster care .When I was a freshman in high school my parents became foster parents for my sister's best friend in girl scouts when she was young as she needed a place to live and my mom and dad went to some program and saw that she was one of the kids and they went and did everything that they could to get her out .We had her till she was 18 . Liz having been in foster care lost contact with her brothers and sister's so I found them on the Internet and got them here for Thanksgiving- It was nice to see her cook dinner and clean her house and do all the things we do for family as it was her first time -28 years old and her first real thanksgiving as she is the second youngest she cooked instead of her older sisters there is 6 kids total that was given up. I have watched her grew so much this year its been 2 years 1/2 since she used drugs and she is such a great person she now has all her kids ! All 3 of them so for the first time in her life she had all her family in the house that she rents and cooked dinner for all . It is nice to see people's lives change in their homes and how people make their house a home .I know out there there have been people who have helped foster kids in one way or the other some times we help people with out knowing it -so for those people i want to take the time and tell you this thanksgiving i am grateful to you -Christmas is around the corner i always try and buy at least one gift and give it to a needy kid -how ever this Christmas i would like people to give to www.kids-alliance.org and ear market for ''kids who are exiting the foster care system '' these are the kids who need love and need a family -please find them and invite them in to your life and family as alot of them have no family due to no one having adopted them THANKS ! ON THE RUN - EDD GIMENEZ