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Some great Ideas for marketing in this post and comments So you’re watching the last 10 minutes of the final episode of your favorite reality show, and a commercial interrupts your mind-numbed glee. Are you really in the mood for this message? Are you ready to receive it? Do you even remotely ca...

Great information on this years version of the first time home buyers tax credit.The Homebuyer Tax Credit portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides an $8,000 tax credit to first-time home buyers (or buyers who have not owned a private residence in the past three years...

Kingstree has a new sandwich shop - Frances Calhoun owned by Wendy Morris. The restaurant is located in the old Dubin's Men Shop building at 109 N. Academy Street. Their menu consists of classics like chicken salad, the Dubin Reuben and mix and match meat, bread, & cheese combinations.The lunch I...

This is a surprising story; definitely a worthwhile read. Now the rest of the story...KURTIS THE STOCK BOY AND BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4.  Kurtis was almost f...

After talking with my mortgage bank partner a few days ago - i couldn't have said this any better myself. Thanks. The US Treasury Department has been supporting the mortgage bonds market, in order to keep mortgage rates under 5%.  I cited two reasons why sub-5% rates might not happen: 1- Capacit...

I am always looking for positive signs in the economy. Last week i shared an article with you about Pittsburgh, PA (congrats to the Steelers , yesterday) that had their unemployment below 5% and their home prices 3% above last year. There are other economic bright spots: Fort Mill, SC prices are ...

Just wanted to pass this along to my friends and clients. This seems to be a deal worth looking into. One of my clients in the early 90's bought a condo in this development for about the same price. This is in walking distance of Coastal Federal Field, home of the MB Pelicans, and across the stre...

For Sale By Owner-Kingstree, SC  608 Third Avenue. Quaint 2 Bedroom, 1 bath home, with living room, dining room, spacious kitchen,  oversized utility room, and screened porch. In quiet neighborhood on a .45 acre lot with large private backyard. House currently rents for $550 a month, but you can ...

I am constantly on the lookout for good economic news.  The New York Times yesterday had an article on the current economic situation of a rust belt city, Pittsburgh. Given all the bad news about manufacturing, one wouldn't think that they wouldn't have 5.5% unemployment, housing prices  up 2.2% ...

Ned Brines is a former client of mine before he got his MBA and became a small cap mutual fund manager. During the late 80's, we would discuss who he saw at lunch on Wilshire Blvd. in LA that day, figure out what stocks were going to be in play over the next month - we were right  85% of the time...