I sometimes call this article “No One Told Me The Rules! When you play a game, any game, you must know the rules. Whether it is baseball, soccer or twister, you have to know the rules before you can engage in the game. You must know the rules before you can play the game effectively. The marketing game is no exception to this basic truth. The problem lies in that it’s not common knowledge for anyone to know the rules of the marketing game. So, let me give you some basics. Then you will no longer be able to say, no one told me the rules.
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While the real estate/mortgage meltdown is concerning, especially to all of us who make our living in this space. The real concern that we have to consider is the out of control spending in Congress. The earmarks and entitlements have blown away any increase in tax receipts from the prosperity of the last several years.
We threw out the last Congress for irresponsible spending and behavior. This Congress has doubled the last Congress’ already despicable deficit.
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Given the American obsession with litigation, it’s somewhat amazing that legal experts could not recall a case of a home buyer who may have overpaid suing a real estate agent before Marty Ummel came along.
Legal and real estate experts say that Ummel and her husband, Vernon Ummel, should have done their homework better before purchasing their four-bedroom home in a luxury development outside of San Diego in 2005 for $1.2 million, a price that the Ummels say was as much as $175,000 more than what similar houses in the development sold for.
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