Your Money - Rental Investment May Seem Safer Than It Really Is - NYTimes.com

Your Money - Rental Investment May Seem Safer Than It Really Is - NYTimes.com: Jack McCabe, a real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach, Fla., said he had never seen large investors purchase so many homes in one fell swoop, giving them such great sway over pricing in the market. “A lot of the price increase is not due to a market that is getting healthy, but is due to the influx of hedge funds, and a high percentage of homes are selling at artificially inflated values,” Mr. McCabe said.

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10 Things You Shouldn’t Do On A Social Network

10 Things You Shouldn’t Do On A Social Network:

 I see Pinterest ‘pins’ that wouldn’t be out of place in an adult magazine; and I see Twitter conversations that would make a sailor blush. While members of Congress and the Electronic Frontier Foundation still worry about privacy, everyone else seems to have thrown caution to the wind.

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Social Odours... More to know... - To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join...

Social Odours... More to know... - To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join...

 In addition, these sites provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who can provide advice, insight, and feedback. These established sites often keep directories of their members, which can be great news for your traffic logs because it means that other bloggers on the site will find out about your pages.

However, there are also some downsides to linking up with a large blogging site. By posting within the established templates of a site like blogger, you run the risk of having your blog look and feel like everybody else's. T

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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Link Your Social Networks | CAREEREALISM

5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Link Your Social Networks | CAREEREALISM

Automated Posting

When you sync your Twitter with your Facebook, your Twitter updates appear automatically as status updates; you can’t select which ones appear on Facebook. Due to the advent of Twitter, most people post status updates on Facebook with less frequency. These updates tend to be more substantive than those on Twitter, which tend to be posted according to speed as opposed to clarity of meaning.
Frequently updating your Twitter-synced Facebook might aggravate your friends by cluttering their feeds with trivial observations and complaints. Furthermore, if linked to a professional network — a profile your employers see — you might end up embarrassing yourself or endangering your employment with the wrong message.