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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Lauryn Hill tax evasion sentencing delayed

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? A federal judge postponed Lauryn Hill's tax evasion sentencing on Monday but not before scolding the eight-time Grammy-winning singer for reneging on a promise to make restitution by now.

Hill pleaded guilty last year to not paying federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005 to 2007. At that time, her attorney said she would pay restitution by the time of her sentencing. It was revealed Monday in court that Hill has paid $50,000 of a total of $554,000.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo criticized her for relying on the promise of a recording contract to pay the tax bill.

"This is not someone who stands before the court penniless," Arleo said to Hill's attorney, Nathan Hochman. "This is a criminal matter. Actions speak louder than words, and there has been no effort here to pay these taxes."

The reclusive singer didn't speak during the proceeding and left the court without commenting. Arleo rescheduled the sentencing for May 6.

The total Hill owes is in dispute. Hochman contends it is slightly less than $1 million, counting civil penalties and interest, while the U.S. attorney's office estimates it at a little more than $1 million. Hochman accused the government of trying to pad the amount because once it surpasses $1 million, the sentencing range for Hill under federal guidelines would increase from 24 to 30 months to 30 to 36 months.

Whatever the range is, Hochman said he would seek a probationary sentence for Hill, a 37-year-old South Orange resident who has six children.

After the proceeding, Hochman said Hill was about to sign a loan against two properties that would allow her to pay the remainder of the restitution before her next court date.

"I fully expect that by May 3 Ms. Hill will be able to pay back all the restitution she has," Hochman said.

Hill has a recording contract but hasn't yet realized any revenue from it, Hochman said outside the courtroom.

Hill got her start with The Fugees and began her solo career in 1998 with the acclaimed album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

At the time of her June arrest, Hill wrote in a long post on the Internet how she had rejected pop culture's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism." She also wrote that she hadn't paid taxes since she withdrew from society to guarantee her family's safety but that she had always intended to rectify the situation.

"When I was working consistently without being affected by the interferences mentioned above, I filed and paid my taxes," she wrote. "This only stopped when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lauryn-hill-tax-evasion-sentencing-delayed-203152256.html

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Tuesday, 16 April 2013

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Venezuela's Maduro named election winner, opposition protests

CARACAS (Reuters) - Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver who became Hugo Chavez's protege, was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election on Sunday but the opposition refused to accept the result and demanded a recount of all the votes. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles said he did not recognize the official results that gave Maduro 50.7 percent support versus 49.1 percent for him, a difference of just 235,000 ballots.

Defiant North Korea celebrates founder's anniversary

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder's birth on Monday with no signs of tension easing on the peninsula after it rejected talks with South Korea aimed at normalizing ties and re-opening a joint industrial park. The United States has also offered talks, but on the pre-condition that North Korea abandons its nuclear weapons ambitions. North Korea deems its nuclear arms a "treasured sword" and has vowed never to give them up.

Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Six people were found strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks. Police found the bodies of the five men and two women in a shack in the outskirts of Cancun, a major tourist destination on Mexico's Caribbean coast, that has largely escaped the drug-related violence that has racked Acapulco, a faded tourist destination on the Pacific coast.

Kremlin criticizes U.S. blacklist ahead of Obama adviser visit

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Sunday called a U.S. law barring Russians from the country over alleged rights abuses unacceptable interference in Russia's affairs, setting a tough tone before a visit by a senior White House adviser. Dmitry Peskov's remarks were the first comment from Putin's office after the U.S. administration named 18 Russians subject to visa bans and asset freezes over the Magnitsky Act legislation passed by Congress late last year.

Al Qaeda adds urgency to search for Syrian peace

AMMAN (Reuters) - International powers will search for a peaceful settlement to Syria's civil war with fresh urgency at an Istanbul meeting after a rebel faction aligned itself with al Qaeda, diplomats and opposition sources said on Sunday. Saturday's meeting of 11 countries from the Friends of Syria alliance will come after the al-Nusra Front, among the strongest formations seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad, pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri on April 10.

Exclusive: Lion Air crash pilot felt jet "dragged" from sky

PARIS (Reuters) - The pilot whose Indonesian jet slumped into the sea while trying to land in Bali has described how he felt it "dragged" down by wind while he struggled to regain control, a person familiar with the matter said. All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived when the Boeing 737 passenger jet, operated by Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, undershot the tourist island's main airport runway and belly-flopped in water on Saturday.

Canada's Liberals go for youth over experience in Trudeau scion

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals crowned charismatic rising political star Justin Trudeau as their party leader on Sunday, relying more on hope and a youthful image than on experience and substance to contest seven years of Conservative rule. The 41-year-old son of the swashbuckling former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Justin won a convincing 80 percent of the votes cast by party supporters over the five remaining candidates.

Chad says troops unsuited to guerrilla war, quitting Mali

DAKAR (Reuters) - Chad will withdraw its troops from Mali where they risk being bogged down in guerrilla war after helping to drive Islamists from northern towns, President Idriss Deby said in comments broadcast on Sunday. His words came days after a suicide bomber killed three Chadian troops in the northern town of Kidal, demonstrating how al Qaeda-linked Islamists are still able to strike in the heavily-defended towns they once controlled.

Egypt to try Brotherhood members accused of torture

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Muslim Brotherhood members in northern Egypt have been ordered to stand trial on charges of detaining and torturing students during a protest against the president the group propelled to power. The charges are a rare acknowledgement of the alleged role that some of the president's supporters have had in attacks on his opponents.

Iraq election candidates killed before local vote

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two Iraqi Sunni Muslim candidates were killed less than a week before local elections that will be a test of the country's political stability after U.S. troops left more than a year ago. The election on Saturday to select provincial council members will measure Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's political muscle against Shi'ite and Sunni rivals before the parliamentary election in 2014.

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Sunday, 14 April 2013

New state laws illustrate America's stark divide on gun control

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While Washington politicians battle over new gun-control measures, state legislators have already passed dozens of new firearms laws since the Newtown school massacre ignited a national debate in December.

The new state laws, a small fraction of the 1,500 or so gun-related bills that have been proposed at state level, reflect the vast political and ideological differences in the debate over gun rights - a gulf that helps explain why lawmakers in Washington find it so difficult to reach a consensus on the issue.

Several Democrat-controlled states have tightened their already tough gun laws, while a dozen Republican-leaning states have loosened the few restrictions they have on the constitutional right to bear arms.

The net effect has been to increase the disparities in the nation's patchwork of gun laws, and widen the divide between urban areas where gun ownership is viewed with suspicion and rural regions where guns are firmly embedded in the culture.

In New York, a new law authorizes police to track ammunition sales and prevents gun owners from buying ammunition magazines that hold more than seven bullets.

Under a new Maryland law, gun buyers will have to be fingerprinted and licensed. In Connecticut, where the massacre of 20 young children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown inspired the gun-control legislation now before the U.S. Senate, those who own high-capacity magazines will have to register with the state.

In many southern and western states, however, legislators are moving in the opposite direction.

Arkansas now allows guns in churches, bars and liquor stores. A new law in Wyoming allows judges to carry guns in their courtrooms. South Dakota school administrators will be able to arm teachers.

State legislators have introduced more than 1,500 gun-related bills since January, according to the Sunlight Foundation. Roughly half of these new proposals would strengthen gun laws, while the other half would weaken them, the nonprofit group found. Of those, around 50 have been enacted into law.

Because weapons can be easily carried across state lines, states that try to impose tight controls on gun purchases can be undercut by other states that are more permissive, analysts say.

"There's no metal detectors at the borders," said Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox. "Any state's ability to deal with the gun problem is limited by that fact: They're not isolated islands."

Gun-control advocates say that's one reason Congress needs to strengthen federal background checks of prospective gun buyers, limit the size of magazine clips and ban military-style "assault" weapons.

"State legislatures that enact irresponsible laws truly do put lives at risk not just in their own state but in neighboring states as well," said Laura Cutilletta of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Gun-rights activists say states are rightly fulfilling their roles as "laboratories of democracy," allowing policymakers to see what approaches work and what doesn't. They say the differences in laws also mean that gun owners can move to states with expansive gun rights, if they wish.

"I think diversity is good," said Joseph Tartaro, president of the Second Amendment Foundation. "From a personal liberty standpoint, any time you have more options you're better off."

FEDERAL LAWS FACE TOUGH OPPOSITION

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of individuals to own firearms, but courts have ruled that right is not unlimited even as they have struck down some of the most restrictive laws, such as the District of Columbia's handgun ban.

In Washington, gun-control advocates scored a victory on Thursday when the Senate began debate on new gun control legislation. But measures that enjoy broad public support - such as an expanded background check system that would include sales made online and at gun shows - could be weakened or made unpalatable to many lawmakers during the weeks of debate coming up in the Senate.

Even if they clear the Senate, such proposals face a more difficult path in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Other measures, such as an assault weapons ban and limits on large-capacity magazines, are widely seen as unlikely to pass either chamber.

Gun-control advocates say that whatever happens in Congress, the action at the state level shows that momentum is on their side.

While many of the pro-gun laws that have passed so far have been incremental expansions of rights that already exist, the new laws in Colorado, New York, Maryland and Connecticut would impose major new restrictions.

"We're hopeful that the rest of the country will follow our lead, both for their sake and our sake," said Vincent DeMarco, president of Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence, who pushed for his state's new requirement to fingerprint and license handgun buyers.

Gun-control advocates also point to gains in states where they traditionally have had little success.

In Alabama, the governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed armed volunteers in schools. Legislation that would have allowed college students to carry guns on campus fell short in Republican-controlled Georgia.

In gun-friendly Montana, the governor vetoed a bill that would have nullified federal firearms laws in the state. And in Utah, one of the most solidly Republican states in the country, the governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

On the other side of the ledger, broad gun-control bills fell short in Illinois and Minnesota, states with Democratic governors and Democrat-controlled legislatures.

Richard Feldman, a former National Rifle Association lobbyist who now heads the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said one-third of the U.S. population now lives in states with gun laws that his groups sees as restrictive. That could spur a backlash among gun owners, he said.

"As an advocacy group working those states, it makes my job much easier because people realize how tenuous their rights are," he said.

(Editing by David Lindsey and Claudia Parsons)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/state-laws-illustrate-americas-stark-divide-gun-control-165618135.html

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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Kris Jenner Calls BS on Star Magazine, Refutes Divorce Story

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Rutgers moves to address coaching scandal fallout

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) ? Rutgers University took steps Thursday to publicly address the fallout from the scandal over its men's basketball coach, announcing an expected independent review and hiring a respected former state attorney general as the new top lawyer for the school.

The measures, announced at the first board of governors meeting since coach Mike Rice was fired last week, were intended to get the university back on track during a time of transformation. Rutgers is absorbing most parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, including two medical schools, and is working on a strategic plan for how to catapult the school to be among the highest-regarded public universities in the nation.

The meeting centered mostly on those overarching issues, though the dozens of journalists at the meeting ? and an appearance from the president of the state Senate ? showed the deep interest in the Rice situation, and questions remained over the fate of one board member.

Rice was suspended, fined and ordered to anger management counseling in December after a former basketball program employee gave school officials a video showing the head coach hitting and kicking players and using gay slurs as he yelled at them during practice.

ESPN reported on the video last week, and Rice was fired, an assistant coach resigned and so did Tim Pernetti, the school's popular 42-year-old athletic director. Pernetti, who was named last month as one of five finalists for the Sports Business Journal's athletic director of the year award, said in his letter of resignation that his first instinct last November was to fire Rice. But it's not clear whether he recommended that action to anyone else.

Gerald Harvey, the vice chairman of the board of governors, said the independent investigation is intended to figure out how the university could have followed proper procedures last year, including consulting with internal and external lawyers, and still decide not to fire Rice immediately.

"The decision seems to have been a very poor decision," he asked, addressing reporters after the meeting. "How did that happen?"

The university has not announced who will conduct the investigation. Harvey said it should be done quickly, but not rushed.

John Wolf, who was interim senior vice president and university counsel, resigned from his leadership position last week and on Thursday, he and University President Robert Barchi announced he was leaving the university entirely after 29 years.

That opened the door for John Farmer, a former state attorney general and now the dean of Rutgers-Newark School of Law in Newark, to become the new top in-house lawyer for the university. Barchi said he expects Farmer to be on the job on 12 to 18 months, a time full of legal decisions related to taking on the medical schools.

Some intrigue remains about the coming changes in the fallout of the basketball department's turmoil.

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney attended the meeting to ask for one member of the board, Mark Hershhorn, to resign or be removed. As chairman of the athletics committee, Hershhorn saw the video of Rice in December. He has said he called for Rice to be fired. But Sweeney faults him for not taking the matter to the full board.

Hershhorn left the meeting early and did not lead the athletic committee's closed-door discussion of the situation.

He issued a statement this week saying Sweeney's positions were "reckless, shocking and were made without any personal knowledge of the facts."

Another decision for the school is who will lead the basketball team. Several players gathered outside the board meeting Thursday to endorse assistant David Cox for the job, saying he's held the team together during the last two difficult weeks.

They also said that Rice's behavior did not bother them as much as it seemed to trouble the rest of the world.

"Even though the stuff on that tape looks bad," said forward Kadeem Jack, "we never felt threatened."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rutgers-moves-address-coaching-scandal-fallout-223744444--spt.html

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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Sierra launches construction division, hires former Swig executive ...

From the April issue:?Manhattan-based Sierra Real Estate has launched a construction division headed by a Swig Equities alum, the firm said last month. The newly formed entity, called Sierra Development Associates, will handle major capital improvements and tenant build-outs at residential and commercial properties, according to Director of Construction Darren Schumer, head of the new division. Schumer was director of construction at Swig Equities until the firm?s financially strapped founder, Kent Swig, wound down operations

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Pressure is on for private manned Mars mission

Inspiration Mars Foundation

An artist's illustration of the Inspiration Mars Foundation's spacecraft for a 2018 mission to Mars by a two-person crew. The private Mars mission would be a flyby trip around the Red Planet.

By Mike Wall
Space.com

Progress made during the next year or so will determine whether a private manned Mars mission can get off the ground in 2018 as planned, its organizers say.

The pressure is on the nonprofit Inspiration Mars Foundation, which intends to launch two astronauts on a flyby mission around the Red Planet?in January 2018. If the team misses this window, the next one won't open until 2031, when Earth and Mars are again suitably aligned for a fast roundtrip trek.

"We acknowledge the reach that this represents," Taber MacCallum, Inspiration Mars' chief technology officer, said of getting everything organized in less than five years. "The next year of effort on this is really going to tell, I think, whether or not we are able to close this as a mission."

Manned mission to Mars
Inspiration Mars, which was founded by original space tourist Dennis Tito, unveiled its ambitious plans in late February. The organization's proposed "Mission for America" would send two people ? a man and a woman ? on a 501-day roundtrip journey to Mars, punctuated by a close flyby of the Red Planet in August 2018. [Photos: Private Manned Mars Mission in 2018]

While the Inspiration Mars team wants to aid humanity's push out into the solar system, it also hopes to inspire the next generation of American scientists and engineers, much as NASA's Apollo moon program did in the 1960s and early 1970s.

"If we're not competitive as a nation in the sciences, we're going to continue to fall behind," MacCallum, who's also chief executive officer of Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corp., said Wednesday during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group. "That's the only lever America has left internationally."

Making it happen won't be easy, as astronauts have never ventured beyond the vicinity of the moon, just 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) or so from Earth. If the Mission for America explorers succeed, they'll be about 38 million miles (61 million km) from home when they cruise past the Red Planet.

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Space tourist Dennis Tito proposes a Mars flyby mission with the trajectory shown here.

Big challenges ahead
One of the biggest challenges for Inspiration Mars is developing an environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) that can be counted on for 500 days in deep space, far from any help, MacCallum said. [Manned Mars Flyby Mission Explained (Infographic)]

"There has never really been an ECLSS system built that was designed without an abort option for these kinds of durations, and with the level of recycling that would be required for this kind of a mission," he said.

The Mission for America's ECLSS will likely be far less automated than the one aboard the International Space Station, with tasks such as the cleaning and replacing of filters being performed by hand.

"That simplifies the overall design, the idea being conferring more reliability," MacCallum said, adding that Inspiration Mars hopes to have an ECLSS test facility up and running by early next year.

The relatively high radiation levels of deep space also pose potential problems, which could be mitigated by a combination of factors. Water could be used as shielding, for example, and older astronauts ? people in their 50s, say ? could be selected (because their lifetime risk of dying from the radiation dose accumulated during the flight would be lower than that of younger folks).

The psychological impact of a 500-day spaceflight is also a concern. Inspiration Mars officials hope to minimize possible problems by launching a married couple whose relationship has weathered many storms over the years.

They're also studying how people have behaved during lengthy stretches of isolation, such as on Antarctic research trips, the Mars500 mock mission to the Red Planet and the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona.

"These range of environments taken together actually provide a pretty good idea of what the behavioral health issues might be like," said MacCallum, who spent two years inside Biosphere 2 in the early 1990s.

Coming home at record speed
The Mission for America astronauts will spend much of their time in a relatively roomy habitat module. But they'll need to return to Earth in a hardy capsule, which will hit our planet's atmosphere at about 31,700 mph (51,000 km per hour).

"No one's ever come back to our planet, that we know of, at that entry speed," said Mission for America team member John Carrico, of Applied Defense Solutions Inc.

Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, Calif., are helping Inspiration Mars devise a thermal protection system that will enable the return capsule to survive the intense heat of re-entry, Carrico added.

Inspiration Mars officials recognize how difficult it will be to meet all of these challenges in less than five years. But Tito's deep pockets should help give the team a fighting chance to pull off history's first-ever manned Mars mission.

Tito "has committed to two years of funding to get the mission off the ground, so we've got runway and altitude, and we are really beginning to engage the industry now," MacCallum said.

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Monday, 8 April 2013

How is the Rental Market in Arizona?: How to price your rental ...

Payam Raouf
President/Designated Broker
Arizona Property Management & Investments

Hello everyone. I do not want to be repetitive, please read the? post below (Investor home-buying update for metro Phoenix) to better understand the rental market condition in Phoenix Metropolitan Area.?

Institutional investors have dominated the market competing against each other renting their homes. If you own one or several renal properties you must be aware of the changes in the renal market to market your home right or it sits there for months without a tenant.

We manage homes for several institutional investors. A) their homes are rent ready, completely renovated. B) they require less initial deposits C) they rent it up to 20% below the current market rent. D) their standards to lease are a lot easier than most landlords. E) they are very generous when it comes to paying a commission to agents to rent their homes quickly, they pay the first month's rent or at least 75% of the gross rent amount.

Fannie Mae and several other institutional investors go as far as keeping the current tenants in place with very favorable terms and no deposits!

What should you do? Can you afford keeping your house on the market for months paying your mortgage or not having any income? Most insurance companies cancel your insurance if your house sits empty after 30 days and so on.

Here are a few solutions:?

YOU WILL BE BETTER OFF TO SELL YOU HOUSE IF YOU CAN NOT AFFORD DOING THE FOLLOWINGS:

A) Make sure your house is rent ready. Today's tenants have too many choices. The fact that a few years back they were desperate and they had to hurry getting out of their home to rent yours is gone. Aside from Paint, Flooring, Appliances,? how does your front and back yard look? Would you live in it??

B) Landlords use to require an initial security deposit equal to the first months rent plus a cleaning deposit. EX: If the rent was a $1000, SD was $1000 plus a $300 cleaning deposit. In most cases those days are gone. We recommend that initially you ask for less deposits on approved credit. Of course, after reviewing the tenant's application, you can adjust it to what makes more sense. In some cases you can ask up to 1 1/2 times of the rent amount if required.

C) Just because the prices have skyrocketed doesn't mean the rent have accordingly. Price you home right. The formula is rent equals to 7% to 8% of your today's market value. So if you bought your house a few years back for $110,000 and it rented it for $1100 and now it is worth $150,000, rent should be $1150 and not $1500.

D) A lot of tenants are re qualifying to buy homes these days. They are moving out. Who is moving in? the ones that have to wait a couple more years longer or so. So, they still have some credit issues. Some tenants are getting new jobs, some are moving in out of state, thanks to the economy improving in Arizona, However, we see a lot of government assisted tenants entering the market called section 8. It is a hit and miss thing with section 8 tenants but the rent is guaranteed. I would consider renting to them if you want to rent your house quicker. They still have to go through the same screening process and pay the deposits except they either get the whole rent or a good portion of it subsidized by the government.?

On the other note, we are seeing a lot of owners that their homes are paid off offering to carry the note back themselves with a reasonable down payment and around 7.5% interest rate, amortized over 30 years, due in 3 to the tenants who can qualify to refinance it in 3 years or so washing their hands off all the expenses related to home maintenance, insurance, hoa fees and taxes, coming ahead on the game.?

Consider lease with option to buy. 3 year lease with an option to buy, some of the expenses such as the normal maintenance fees such as landscaping and pool maintenance is passed on to the tenant, you receive a decent upfront deposit and worry less about the turn over and increase your bottom line.

Consider longer term leases at a reduced rent. If the rent is $1200 for 1 year reduce it to $1150 for two and $1100 for 3 year lease.?

Is your house pet friendly? Instead of collecting a large pet deposit up front, charge a monthly pet fee and add it to the rent. You increase your bottom line and making it easier to rent. You need to look at your insurance policy to see what breed of pets are excluded. Even in such cases, you maybe able to ask the tenants to get an additional pet insurance up to $100,000 coverage. If they really love their pet, they do.

Lower the rent but ask the tenant to pay for the pool service or the gardening or even the HOA fees in addition to the rent or exclude some of the maintenance issues that are not health and safety related and are allowed by law and ask the tenant to pay for it such as fixing the reverse osmosis, garbage disposal,? routine pest control etc.

E) This is a deal maker folks. Hire a professional leasing agent and pay them all the money to rent it quickly the first time. Sales market is heating up. It takes as much time and effort to lease a home to these fussy tenants as it takes to sell them one with as much or more paperwork. I know our leases are 32 pages long! The difference is they make $600 leasing and $6000 selling. What would you do if you were in their shoes?? Most leasing companies charge $695 to lease your home. Offer the agent an additional $300 to $500 incentive if they rent it within the first 30 days. See how quickly your house is rented!

The companies or agents that settle for less don't now how to market your house for rent so you risk the chances of leaving it abandoned for months and possibly vandalized in the process or keep getting notices and fines from your HOA or the city for grass over growing or trash left out etc.

Interview at least two leasing agents in the area. Tell them before you make a final decision you want them to write a complete marketing plan or a complete description of how they would be marketing your house on MLS or other sites. Once you pick the right agent, review the description, see if they left something out or if you want to add to it or fine tune it and send it to them.

Pictures are worth a thousand of words. Ask the agent to send you 30 marketing pictures. Choose 15 of them and if you do have some good pictures yourself go ahead send them to your agent as well.?

Ask your agent as part of the deal a) to send a link to all the marketing they do online, B)? they are to contact you twice a week preferably with a phone call or in an email,? to give you an update. If they don't call you, call them. If they do not answer, put it in the listing agreement that you have the option to cancel your listing if you are not 100% satisfied with their performance within 30 days from putting your house on the market.

DO NOT PUT YOUR HOUSE ON THE MARKET TILL YOU HAVE READ THE DESCRIPTION AND SEEN THE PICTURES. The first 10 days are crucial for renting your house. Otherwise it sits on line and counts days on the market that works against you. The longer you house shows on the market, the less showing, the longer it takes to rent.
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The competition is very tight out there for homeowners to rent their homes.? The difference between you getting involved and not is crucial. THEN GET INVOLVED OR GET OUT OF THE GAME.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Treat your tenant the way you want to be treated if you were renting the house. A happy tenant takes care of your property better and stays longer reducing your overhead. They may even end up purchasing your home one day reducing most of the marketing and brokerage fees putting more money in your pocket at the end.

We are a full service Real Estate Company . We offer a broad spectrum of services including purchasing, sale, short sale, leasing and property management. You can contact me and I provide you with? a detailed market analysis for sale or rent of your property and give you an indept insight of what is going on in the market in your area.

Please fill out THIS FORM attention Payam Raouf, with your contact information, the address of your property and any questions you may have. I will contact you directly to answer all your questions.?

Thank you,?


Payam Raouf
President/Designated Broker
Arizona Property Management & Investments
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Street funds and other large well-funded investors continue to buy houses in metro Phoenix, even though the pace has slowed as sales prices have jumped.
Some of the early investors, who bought in 2009, have flipped the houses for a quick profit, but most of these buyers are holding on to the properties and turning them into long-term rentals.
David Bignoli, president of real estate data research firm Netvaluecentral Inc., recently completed a report on metro Phoenix?s biggest investors.
Currently, THR Phoenix, also known as Treehouse LLC, owns more than 6,000 houses in metro Phoenix. THR?s house purchases are funded by New York-based international investor Blackstone Group.
Since early 2012, Blackstone has been on a house-buying spree in Phoenix and other markets hit by the foreclosure crisis, including Atlanta, cities in Florida and California since early 2012.
Most of the big residential investors in metro Phoenix are buying in these other markets as well.
Scottsdale-based American Residential Properties ranks no. 2 for house ownership in the Valley with more than 2,700 houses. The firm was started by some former executives of Franchise Finance Corp.
Empire Residential owns almost 1,700 houses in the Phoenix-area. The Scottsdale-based investment group has been around for several years and is led by Richard Felker and Geoffrey Jacob.
The fourth-largest holder of houses in the region is Santa Monica, Calif.-based Colony Capital. The well-known investment group has set up a Scottsdale headquarters for its residential activity. Colony owns more than 1,600 metro Phoenix houses.
Most of these investors rent their houses out, and say they plan to hold them for the long-term and make money on stable rents.
A few plan to package rental houses into publicly traded real estate investment funds sold to other investors.
Another interesting fact to note about many of metro Phoenix?s biggest investors: about half of their houses are listed in property records as owner-occupied.
It will be telling to see what these investment numbers look like in six months. Will these investors stop purchasing metro Phoenix houses in the next six months because of rising prices? Or will some sell their houses in the area because of rising prices?

Source: http://azezrentals.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-price-your-rental-homes-these.html

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Friday, 5 April 2013

MLB stamps partnership with Qualcomm, hopes it leads to improved connectivity at ballparks

MLB stamps partnership with Qualcomm, hopes it leads to improved connectivity at ballparks

Companies like Cisco have tried lending Major League Baseball a hand in its quest to serve better internet connectivity to game attendees, but Bud Selig & Co. know that a little more has to be done if the proper results are to be achieved. Now, through its own MLB Advanced Media branch, the league is teaming up with Qualcomm Technologies (a subsidiary of the chip-maker) to launch a collaboration that'll "survey, plan and optimize network connectivity for fans at supported MLB parks." According to the terms of the partnership, Qualcomm engineers will provide a detailed plan and assessment on how to improve wireless access at baseball fields, and that's taking into consideration 3G, 4G and, of course, WiFi. Here's to hoping the MLB / Qualcomm alliance plays out well for the sake of those who enjoy an IRL version of America's national pastime -- because we all know how important it is to be able to quickly share that "I can see Rudy Giulani from where I'm sitting" tweet.

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Where Are All The Tornadoes?

March is typically when tornado season ramps up, with spring's unstable weather giving rise to thunderstorms and twisters. But this year has been relatively quiet so far.

By early April 2012, there had been 290 tornadoes, including 60 tornado-related deaths. But this year, there have only been about 137 reported twisters, resulting in two fatalities, National Weather Service (NWS) records show.

So why so few twisters? The main reason is that, so far, it has been a colder-than-average spring and late winter, at least for much of the central and eastern United States, which is where most of the country's tornadoes occur. This can be blamed largely on a stationary mass of warm air over Greenland and the North Atlantic that has blocked the normal flow of air from west to east and south to north, Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the NWS' Storm Prediction Center, previously told OurAmazingPlanet. This flow of air, known as the jet stream, usually brings more warm, moist air from the south as the Northern Hemisphere begins to heat up in the spring.

Instead, winds have predominated from the north, bathing the eastern two-thirds of the United States in Arctic air. This tamps down the formation of tornadoes, which depend on muggy air to fuel their creation and destructive power, Carbin said. [Infographic: Tornado! How, When & Where Twisters Form]

Tale of two Marches

A comparison with last year is somewhat incomplete, since 2012's tornado season got off to a roaring start, thanks to plenty of moist, warm air brought north from the Gulf of Mexico, which helped fuel the month's 154 tornadoes, a cluster of which hit on March 2-3 and were the year's first billion-dollar disaster. March 2012 was the warmest March on record in the United States, according to the NWS. ?

The average number of tornadoes for March is 76; this past month, there were only 17 reported, Carbin said. The month was also tied as the second-coldest March since 2000.

March tornado outbreaks have been deadly throughout the years, killing 40 people in 1994, 64 people in 1984, 58 people in 1966 and 209 people in 1952.

Super Outbreak anniversary

This week actually marks the anniversary of the deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, which occurred on April 3-4, 1974. The Super Outbreak, as it is called, saw 148 twisters touch down in 13 states, killing 330 people.

Another 5,484 people were injured in a path of destruction that covered more than 2,500 miles, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"Deadly storms such as the 1974 super outbreak can and will happen again," said meteorologist Ken Haydu in a NOAA statement. "The people who experienced the super outbreak have an important story about tornado awareness and preparedness to pass on to later generations."

Looking into the near future, the cold gripping the eastern United States and lack of extreme weather isn't likely to last. The blocking pattern that has helped lead to cold weather is already weakening, and warmer temperatures are expected early next week as warm air from the Gulf may be allowed to move north. This could also lead to the first significant outbreak of severe weather early next week, Carbin said.

"It does look like there will probably be more storminess in the middle of the country and we have one system moving across the Midwest on Sunday (April 7), and Monday, that could maybe bring some hail and gusty winds," Carbin said. "And that one perhaps sets the stage for a more substantial outbreak of severe weather perhaps by Tuesday to Wednesday."

Email Douglas Main?or follow him @Douglas_Main. Follow us?@OAPlanet, Facebook?or Google+. Original article on LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.

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Thursday, 4 April 2013

One woman's breast cancer test warning - Top Stories - Yorkshire ...

When Louise Wilkinson discovered a lump in her breast she ignored it for two years thinking it was one of many benign cysts she had suffered.

But Louise, from Wetherby, is now urging women to perform regular breast checks if they find a lump after she was diagnosed with cancer.

?Don?t do what I did and put off going to your doctor. If you find a lump or any abnormality in your breast don?t be afraid, get it checked immediately. If you catch it early it could save your life,? she said.

Louise, who is in her 50s, was trying on new swimwear for a holiday in 2011 when her husband Gary, noticed her breast had an irregular shape and looked dimpled.

?We were about to go away, and consequently I did not visit my GP until October,? said Louise. After referral for a mammogram and ultrasound scan in Harrogate, Louise was confirmed to have breast cancer. A friend recommended consultant medical oncologist Dr Tim Perren at the Spire Leeds Hospital. He confirmed it was a tumour, measuring about 5cm.

Louise elected to have a course of chemotherapy from November 2011 to April 2012, to reduce the size of the tumour before surgery so that she would only need a lumpectomy, not a mastectomy.

In May 2012 she had the lump removed and her breast constructed using tissue, fat and muscle from her back, under the care of Mr Philip Turton, consultant breast oncoplastic and aesthetic breast surgeon, at Spire Leeds Hospital.

Seven days later tests showed that the chemotherapy had not killed the cancer. Mr Turton performed a mastectomy and Louise underwent 15 sessions of radiotherapy.

Physio Sharon Kleiman introduced Louise to The Haven, the charity that offers free breast cancer support and therapies.

Louise is back at work in Leeds. She said: ?It?s been a rocky ride and it wore me down at times. Now my hair has grown back and I feel great and very lucky to be alive.? Visit www.breastcancercare.org.uk

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Skype And Dropbox Fix Redirect Security Hole That Could've Hacked Your Facebook

Hacker IllustrationNir Goldschlager just saved your identity. One of the world's top white hat security researchers, Goldschlager this week helped Skype and Dropbox fix a critical security flaw that could have let hackers take control of their users' Facebook accounts. Tomorrow Goldschlager will detail how he found the exploit, but he gave TechCrunch the early heads up. Here's how hackers exploit the hole.

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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Yahoo! Mail adds Dropbox integration for simple sharing, end to attachment limits

Dropbox and Yahoo! Mail

Google, Amazon and Microsoft are finally getting the syncing cloud storage thing right. But, Dropbox is still the player to catch. While the rest are still working on actually getting the desktop client stuff ironed out, the iconic blue box is spreading its tentacles across the web. Today Yahoo! announced a partnership that puts the pioneering storage service right in your inbox. Yahoo! Mail is now tightly integrated with Dropbox, allowing you to share files straight from your folders online or save attachments to them. The tie-in comes courtesy of Dropbox Chooser, which also means an end to size limits for email attachments. Anything over 25MB is shared through a Dropbox link, rather than directly attached to your message. If you're a Yahoo! user you should see the new options in your inbox today.

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Danish teachers locked out after talks fail

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Danish teachers were locked out of schools on Tuesday after negotiations with municipal authorities over weekly work hours failed to produce an agreement.

The National Teachers Union said 52,000 teachers were barred from entering schools, affecting some 875,000 pupils. Thousands of teachers held impromptu protests throughout Denmark, carrying signs and wearing white T-shirts expressing concern over a possible decline in the quality of education.

The showdown centers on who has the power to schedule teachers' working time.

The union has refused to accept a new working agreement that is part of sweeping school reform program.

Municipal authorities want the right to determine how much time teachers spend in the classroom, and reject the Teachers Union's demand for a cap of 25 hours per week in class, with the rest of their working hours used for class preparation.

Teachers currently spend on average 16 hours a week in the classroom.

"We are prepared to spend more time teaching in the classroom, but we believe there must be a limit," said union executive board member Gordon Orskov Madesen. "We also need proper time for preparation to offer quality in each and every lesson."

Michael Ziegler, chief negotiator for Local Government Denmark, an association of municipalities, said local governments should have more say in how teachers spend their working hours.

"We believe that it should not be the Teachers Union who decides how teachers spend their working time," said Ziegler. "Instead, it should be decided locally and in a dialogue between the individual teacher and school management. Teachers need to have rules regarding working hours that are similar to all other employee groups."

If the two sides fail to reach an agreement, the central government could step in and force teachers back into schools.

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