How to Legally Sell a Property You Don’t Own

Posted by daved | Dave Dinkel's Weekly Insights | Thursday 27 January 2011 10:34 pm

How to Legally Sell a Property You Don’t Own

It happens about once every two to three weeks. We get a call from a Realtor
asking how we can be advertising a listed property. Often it is the listing agent
who is calling. Sometimes they just start yelling that we are criminals and can’t
offer the property for sale. Other times they sneak in as if they were a buyer and
grill us about when we bought the property and then they go into their spiel of
how we are frauds.

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Ode to the Lowly Fence

Posted by daved | Dave Dinkel's Weekly Insights | Thursday 20 January 2011 1:19 am

Ode to the Lowly Fence

Fences take all forms. Historically, they were stone, straw and mortar, logs, and
any material that kept intruders out. Today they are mostly metal, wood and
plastic. Fences are designed to keep people or animals out or keep children and
pets in – they usually work pretty well.

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Things Burglars Won’t Tell You

Posted by daved | Dave Dinkel's Weekly Insights | Thursday 13 January 2011 4:36 am

Things Burglars Won’t Tell You

I have seldom published other people’s material but in this case I felt I had to pass
these anti-burglar tips along. I’m not sure who sent this to me but since I have
discussed security issues in the past, here are some that could save your life and
property. There are few worse feelings than when a thief gets into your home and takes
irreplaceable items and the memories they hold.

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All This Happened in One Small Part of One Day

Posted by daved | Dave Dinkel's Weekly Insights | Thursday 6 January 2011 6:30 pm

If you wonder what we do all day besides playing video poker and making brownies,
here is just a very small sample of a segment of an “average” day:

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