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Houses are selling like hotcakes in my neighborhood

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I wrote a post on one of my other blogs about a week ago about the number of houses close to us that have gone up for sale lately. They’re selling like hotcakes it seems!

I’m pretty sure that there was a news story a few days ago where some real estate companies were saying that house sales were slower than normal this past spring and so far this summer here in Toronto, but the way houses are going up for sale and being sold within a week or two I don’t think there’s a problem in this particular neighborhood.

I’m glad our housing market is doing so well. I keep hearing about people losing their homes in the US or requesting foreclosure help. I think it’s particularly bad in California if I’m not mistaken. I hope it doesn’t get that way here in Canada. Our economy has been doing better than the US economy since 2001. It’s starting to have some trouble, but as I said hopefully things don’t get that bad here.

One neighbor just a few houses down sold her house in just under two weeks and to the best of my knowledge it went for about $350,000. Her house is pretty much the same as ours so I guess if we put ours up for sale we’d get somewhere around that price too. Good to know but we aren’t planning on selling anytime soon.

I just hope that all of our new neighbors are nice people. We have a great neighborhood and we are all fairly friendly – at least to say hi or wave at each other when we see one an other if not actually visiting each others homes.





Thinking of buying property in Panama?

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Live in Panama? Looking to buy or sell property? Be sure to visit Encuentra24. Encuentra24 is the largest Real Estate listing service in Panama.

The website is very easy to use if you happen to be searching for a property to buy or rent. Actually if already own Real Estate in Panama and want to sell or rent it out you can create your own real estate listing quite easily. Listings are seen by as much as 800,000 people interested in buying or renting real estate.

Property listings include photos of the site, video and mapping. You can search for or list apartments, condos, houses or commercial properties.

As I browsed through the site I noticed that while Real Estate might be the main draw of Encuentra24 I was pleased to see that one could also buy or sell items on the site, buy or sell a vehicle, find a school, a job, view or list items in auctions, or find a service trade to work on your property. It’s a true multi-service site.

Last, but not least there’s also a article that lists a number of Real Estate Tips. You can find out where the best places to purchase real estate in Panama are, how to pay annual property taxes and many other helpful tidbits of information.

So if you’re thinking of moving to Panama or if you already live there and need to buy or sell property head on over to Encuentra24.

Are companies advertising everywhere these days?

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Have you noticed that ads that you’ve perhaps been seeing on the internet over the last year or more are suddenly in magazines and even on TV these days?

Maybe it’s just because I’m in Canada and some of these ads are finally making their way to main stream media here, but over the last month I’ve noticed more and more companies that I’ve seen doing big internet advertising campaigns advertising in magazines and on TV. You know, companies like Lifelock and ones for colon cleanse and several other products.

I thought more and more companies were turning to the internet to advertise but now I’m wondering if they’re changing their minds and going back to main stream advertising. What do you think? Are they putting their money into all kinds of ads or going back to more traditional ways of getting their message out?

New neighbors soon!

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Well our next door neighbors finally sold their house! I have no idea what the final offer was, but I suspect it was several thousand lower than what they’d originally asked. Looks like we’ll have new neighbors moving in in early April.

Chris thinks he saw our new neighbors to be when they were looking at the house. It’s a young couple. Hopefully a friendly and fairly quite people. By quiet I don’t mean I’m wishing they are excessively quiet … just no noisy Karaoke parties like our current neighbors please!

Sometime this year we’ll have new neighbors on the other side of the house too. My elderly neighbor Sofie – the one I call my stalker – had a mild stroke two weeks ago and she’s in the hospital. Her family had finally talked her into moving in with them so I guess the house will go up for sale sometime soon.

Her oldest son has been busy working in the basement over the last week or so. I’m not sure what he’s doing down there but it sure is noisy! Maybe he’s digging the basement foundation out to make the floor to ceiling height better. As I’ve probably mentioned a few times our basement was made for very short people. I’ve got to walk around ours hunched over and I’m sure all our neighbors basements are like that too unless they’ve done some work to increase the height.

So I guess we’ll be seeing moving vans around here soon. I think the new couple moving in is from New York so maybe we’ll see some New York movers vans.

It’s kind of exciting getting new neighbors. I just hope they’re good people.

Rent or buy powered access platforms

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Among the many services offered by Panther Platform Rentals are the ability to purchase new and used machines, Platform hire including the services of a platform operator if needed, personal protection equipment, service and maintenance of rented machines and customers machines, damage waiver, theft and loss waiver and IPAF training.

Certainly renting power access equipment when your company needs it will save your business quite a bit of money when you compare the cost of purchasing, storing and maintaining equipment that is only used occasionally.

You might also save money by purchasing used equipment from Panther Platform Rentals. The cost of well maintained used equipment is substantially lower than brand new equipment.

You can contact a representative at Panther Platform Rentals to discuss your companies needs. Their staff is fully trained and will be able to discuss the various powered access platforms and other machinery available.

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