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8 Tips on Becoming a Successful Real Estate Agent

Strategy Driven

Becoming a real estate agent can sound very appealing when you think about the flexible hours, large commissions, and the satisfaction of helping people sell a house. Real estate professionals will tell you that every sale is the product of a lot of hard work and dedication. This will save you a lot of time and energy.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Real estate investments, undervalued stocks, strategic partnerships, you name it. Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low. People and businesses are looking for opportunities.

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Laissez-Faire, Picking Winners, and Other Myths of National Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

became a relatively less attractive place to manufacture automobiles, unemployment skyrocketed (at one point hitting a high-water mark of nearly 30% in Detroit ), wages and living standards eroded, real estate values plummeted, and public services crumbled. When the Detroit and upper-mid-west region of the U.S. and Mexico).