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Real estate agents 'preying on battlers'
From what I can see, this is an organisation who is just going out trying to buy properties cheaply and using the internet to access vendors and offering them cheap deals," he said. "They're saying there are no agents' costs. Of course there are no agents' costs because there are no agents involved." The New South Wales Fair Trading Department has issued a warning about the online firms. NSW Fair Trading Minister says the practice is not illegal but there there are several things people struggling with their mortgages should do. "If you're under mortgage stress, make sure that if you're going to sell your home, however you're going to sell it, get a proper evaluation," she said. "Go to your lender and let them know the sort of trouble that you're in and get some financial counselling advice." Homeowners are advised to contact their local fair trading or consumer affairs department for detailed information about how to find a licensed real estate agent.
BRAC 'gold rush' sets in
Real estate agents offering to help defense workers find homes. Law firms peddling their expertise in negotiating military contracts. Management and sales consultants tendering advice on how to sell to the government or contractors.
The huge nationwide military base shuffle has spawned a cottage industry of businesses and entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on the influx of up to 60,000 jobs and 28,000 households to Maryland. If the almost weekly conferences, seminars and workshops aren't enough, there are newsletters and Web sites offering the lowdown on how Maryland will be affected by the Pentagon's Base Closure and Realignment Commission's 2005 decision to shift thousands of mostly civilian, high-tech defense workers to military installations here.
The swarm of businesses around BRAC is hardly surprising.
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Montags own legacy (to this point in the novel) is the pile of ashes he will leave behind. Montag is a fireman. In Bradburys futuristic vision, firemen are responsible for starting fires. His fires burn books that have been deemed dangerous. Theyve been censored. Theyve been banned. They get burned. While this web-site might seem an uncommon place to explore censorship, consider: a game official in the employ of the NFL faces league discipline because a player to whom he spoke deemed his words offensive. That official referred to the player as Boy. In context the player, arguing a call by that official, exclaimed to the official Youve never played football before. In essence, the player was questioning the officials right to judge the play. In response, the official began with Boy. What the player did not realize was that the official was in fact a 7-year veteran of the NFL as an offensive lineman.
Jan. 30, 1790: The Lifeboat, an Idea Whose Time Has Come
1790: The first shore-based boat designed specifically for use as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne in northern England. Christened the Original, she was a 30-foot-long, double-ended, 10-oar longboat built by Henry Greathead of South Shields. She carried 7 hundredweight (784 pounds or 356 kilograms) of cork for added buoyancy and was designed to be self-righting. Although smaller craft had been pressed into service as lifeboats in the past, Original was the first boat built specifically for sea rescue. She was stationed at the mouth of the Tyne and launched from a shore station. In a career spanning 40 years, she was responsible for saving hundreds of lives. By 1839, there were 30 lifeboat shore stations operating in the British Isles. Original was built as the result of an incident in 1789, when a crew was lost after its ship ran aground in stormy seas off the mouth of the river.
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