Heres the third installment of our 7 Habits series, following up 7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Buyers and 7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Sellers.
What, you didnt know this was a series?
Yeah, me either until about 10 minutes ago
Here well explore seven habits that highly effective real state agents practice.
About 9,000 Palm Beach County property owners did not receive their annual tax bills in the mail this month because of a computer processing problem, Tax Collector Anne Gannon said Tuesday.
Gannon said her office discovered the missing bills while conducting a routine audit of the roughly 705,000 annual property tax bills that should have arrived in mailboxes this month.
The missing bills represent about 1.3 percent of all the office’s tax bills.
The missing bills were never printed, Gannon said. As a result, they were never mailed out.
The problem affected many property owners who had paid their taxes in quarterly installments, Gannon said.
The office is in the process of printing the missing bills, Gannon said.
Just a couple of weeks into its bankruptcy process, Beacon Power Corp. has written down the value of its Stephentown, N.Y., energy storage plant as it moves toward a liquidation of its assets, according to court and regulatory documents filed this week. Beacon Power formerly traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ‘BCON.’ The Tyngsborough-based maker of flywheel-based energy storage technology has a plant up and running, in Stephentown, N.Y. In a regulatory filing this week, the firm wrote down the value of that plant by $41.9 million, to $12.6 million, citing price uncertainty in New York’s market for frequency regulation – in which entities such as Beacon Power provide ready access to power that can balance supply and demand on the energy grid. “In ge
Seattle architect Tom Kundig designs striking contemporary homes, 17 of which are featured in a recently released photo book.
Tom Kundig: Houses 2 follows up on his first collection, released in 2006.
Tom Kundig’s houses help complacent bodies reimagine themselves in a natural plenitude, Daniel Friedman, dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, writes in an essay in the book. In the lives they touch, they circulate like gift property, transmitting vitality, reviving the soul, serving an upward force.
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press added: Whether carving a house out of rock or engineering a gizmo that opens a ceiling to the sky, Kundig is compelled to craft a dialog between people, nature, and architecture. F
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle within the real estate space with Redfin’s recent release of their “Scouting Report” (I published my initial thoughts here).
For those not familiar with the Scouting Report, Redfin, a semi-national real estate brokerage, announced last Thursday that they would be displaying some sales statistics for all agents in areas they served. All age