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Navigating today’s housing market may require the help of an experienced professional. Check out these helpful tips on using a REALTOR® brought to you by LendingTree.com.
It’s a common misperception that the easiest way to save money during a home sale is to cut out the REALTOR® and their 5-6 percent commission. Here are the ways using a REALTOR® can in fact save you time and money.
1. REALTORS® and home buying – As a homebuyer, you are spared the expense of using a REALTOR® to represent you. The commission is paid by the seller. Benefits abound: The REALTOR® takes your preferences for neighborhood, size, amenities and features and filters all the homes on the market to your specifications, and uses their expertise in the market to advise you on the value of each home. When you are ready to make a bid, the REALTOR® will use their expertise to advise you on an appropriate offer.
2. REALTORS® and selling a home – When the market is hot and homes are practically selling themselves, is it really worth the REALTOR’S® five-figure commission? In most cases, yes. The biggest benefit that commission buys you is distribution and advertising for your home. The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is a proprietary electronic database of every property listed with a REALTOR®. Prospective buyers and other REALTORS® use the MLS to search for properties for themselves and their clients. Most sellers who list their house as for-sale-by-owner cannot list their home on the MLS; the burden of advertising falls squarely on the shoulders of the seller, including pictures, signage and other promotional materials. In addition, REALTORS® have easy access to market data – how many properties in the neighborhood sold recently, for how much, and how long they took to sell: all useful information for deciding how much to list your home for.
3. The value of time and peace of mind – Selling a home requires a significant time investment. Not only do you need to prepare your home for sale – minor repairs, cosmetic improvements, a deep cleaning – but someone needs to accompany any prospective buyers when they come to walk through. It can be disconcerting to have strangers casting a critical eye on the property you called home. REALTORS® often recommend that the homeowner leave the house when buyers walk through. A lockbox is placed on the door, and the buyer’s agent calls your REALTOR® for the code, and accompanies the prospective buyer.
It’s in a REALTOR’S® best interest to make the process go as smoothly as possible. If any issues crop up, with the appraisal, the mortgage company or the closing attorney, your REALTOR® should have an intimate knowledge of the process – useful for handling any unexpected snags.
4. REALTORS® are professionals -As with other professionals, like financial advisors or healthcare professionals, ultimately you – as either a home buyer or seller – are responsible for your decisions. Working with a REALTOR® can save you time, money and stress. But, it’s a partnership – don’t surrender your good judgment just because you are working with someone with a license.
For more information about buying a selling a home and using a REALTOR® in today’s market, visit the LendingTree Smart Borrower Center.
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Launched in 1998 with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, LendingTree, LLC also owns and operates LendingTree Loans sm, LendingTree Settlement Services, LLC, GetSmart®, and HomeLoanCenter.com. LendingTree, LLC is an operating company of IAC.
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Financial Checklist for People Contemplating Divorce and Separation
Regardless of the type of divorce process you choose to use, it is important to identify your marital estate. The marital estate is defined by the South Carolina Equitable Apportionment Statute and generally comprises all assets and debts acquired by either party during the marriage, regardless of title. As you can guess, there are numerous exceptions to this rule, so discuss this issue carefully with your attorney. For starters, however, you should begin to gather the following information, regardless of how it was obtained or who obtained it, as long as it was obtained during the marriage. Gather information on an asset used during the marriage, regardless of when it was obtained.
An example of an “asset” would be your residence, a car, a boat, a valuable piece of artwork, a retirement account, or an investment account. An asset is anything that is worth money! Don’t worry about loans on the assets (such as your mortgage or a car loan), because you will be listing all of these debts separately. The result will be your “net” marital estate.
Here is a brief checklist to help guide you with this process. It is by no means a comprehensive list, so anticipate that your attorney will need more information, but it is a good starting place.
Income/ Assets:
• Income tax returns for the previous five years
• Retirement account statements; one from the date of marriage, one current.
• Estimated valuation of all real estate acquired during the marriage
• Estimated value of the marital residence, if owned
• Statements from current investment accounts
• Statements from college savings accounts for minor children
• Estimated (Blue Book) value of all automobiles
• Itemization of all valuable artwork, jewelry, etc. with estimate of values
• Copies of all trusts
• Copies of all whole life insurance policies or annuities
• Recent statements from whole life and annuity policies
• Copies of all corporate papers; Sub S Corp’s, LLC’s etc.
Debts
• Current credit card statements
• Current mortgage balances (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc….)
• Automobile loans
• Promissory notes
• Student loans
• Secured loans
• Other debts and obligations (unsecured)
In complicated cases, a financial professional is helpful to assist in establishing the value of the marital estate. In the more straightforward cases, you and your lawyer can establish the values using and Excell or Numbers spreadsheet, or just a pencil and paper!
The bottom line is that you want to identify everything that was obtained during the marriage, or used as marital property during the marriage regardless of how it was obtained.
HOT TIP: You will also want to have this information very well organized for your attorney or financial professional. You pay these people by the hour, so the less time they need to spend organizing your financial matters, the less money you will pay for this service!
Guy J. Vitetta, originally from Philadelphia, PA, graduated from Ohio’s Kenyon College with a B.A. in history and religion. As a community activist addressing consumer and environmental issues, Guy realized his most influential avenue for making a difference in the community was in the practice of law. He graduated from Capital University Law School in Columbus, OH in 1991. Clerking in the Death Penalty Section of the Ohio Public Defender Commission, Mr. Vitetta worked on appeals for Death Row inmates. For the next eleven years, he served as a Public Defender in Columbus, then in Charleston County, SC, before opening his private practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
Guy Vitetta ’s criminal practice is active in municipal, state, and federal courts. Guy was the first attorney in South Carolina trained in Collaborative Law, and is a founding member and president of the South Carolina Collaborative Law Institute. He is also a Certified Family Court Mediator in South Carolina. Guy holds an AV® Peer Rating*, the highest given by Martindale–Hubbell.
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Homeschooled Children Continue Outperforming Their Public School Counterparts as Homeschooling Increases in Popularity
In America, there was a time when the idea of homeschooling raised eyebrows of concern and could result in a visit from social services. A lack of trust by the government and public in general in a parent’s ability to educate their own children made homeschooling a bit of a stigma.
Even today in some circles, there are still many “old school” thinkers that go so far as to say that homeschooling is tantamount to deliberate child abuse. As ridiculous as that sounds to most of us, overcoming such ignorance has been a problem for some parents looking into homeschooling.
Overseas, it can be much worse. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, a law instituted under Hitler and still enforced today. German families who choose to home school must do so in secret and run the risk of arrest; or worse, having the state take their children away.
Performance of home schools versus public and private schools
It doesn’t take much effort or investigation to discover that homeschoolers excel above their public school counter parts in nearly every category. According to a study conducted by Dr. Lawrence Rudner:
• The average home schooled 8th grade student performs four grade levels above the national average.
• One in four home school students are enrolled in a grade level that is above their age level.
• In every grade and in every subject, home schooled students outperform both public and private school students.
Other studies confirm these findings, showing that home schooled students have a much higher college entry rate, score higher on SAT’s and ACT’s, have a higher rate of college graduation, and earn higher incomes in the workforce.
These numbers come despite the fact that about 25% of parents in America who choose to home school either never attended college, or attended but never received a degree. An additional 7-10% have only an Associate degree.
Why do homeschooled children perform so well?
The advantages to homeschooling are many, and are quite revealing as to why homeschooled children do so well.
One on one attention – Whenever a child needs assistance, the parent is there to give him or her full attention, whereas in public schools a teacher must divide their attention between dozens of children.
Ability to focus more time where needed – If a student excels in math, but flounders in science, then a parent can very easily devote as much time as is needed to teaching science. Public schools are regimented, with each subject receiving equal time regardless as to the performance of the student.
Homeschooled students move at their own pace – If a student excels in math then they can advance much quicker than students in a public school, where all students are required to move at the same pace.
Diminished distractions – The parents control the environment, and there is no peer pressure from other students trying to talk a homeschooled student into doing things other than school work or study.
Do parents need some kind of special training or certification?
Some states highly regulate home schools, requiring training and certification in some instances. However, studies show that there is virtually no difference in performance between homeschooled students in highly regulated states versus homeschooled students in states with little or no regulation.
The truth is that homeschooling is gaining in popularity and as such, more and more information and help materials are becoming available. The modern homeschooling parent can now effectively teach their children, regardless of the parent’s own education level, thanks to pre-developed curriculums such as those provided by Heritage Home School Academy.
Parents today can use these curriculums to guide their children. Some curriculums are so effective that parents can study ahead of their children in any subject for which they are lacking and effectively teach the same subject to their children. Furthermore, many children often “learn to learn,” reaching a point where they are able to teach themselves and follow a curriculum with little interaction required from the parent.
Each year more families choose to start homeschooling, spreading knowledge about its benefits, and erasing old stigmas along the way. For more information about homeschooling and home school curriculums, visit Heritage Home School Academy.
Heritage Home School Academy is a provider of accredited home school curriculums for grades K-12. Heritage also provides a Christian home school curriculum based on the Bible for those wishing to incorporate Christian values into their homeschooling, something that is outlawed in public schools.
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Personal & Business Legal forms, contracts and agreements. Popular forms include Bill of Sale, Power of Attorney, Last Will, Promissory Note, Prenuptial Agreement, Landlord and Tenant forms and Guardianship forms.
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The B.c. Workers’ Compensation Legal Kit
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Why Outsource Human Resources Management
Human resource management is an important part of a given business strategy. Small business owners and or new business established outsourcing is the best option for save you some capital to invest it elsewhere in your business. There are many advantage of outsource human resource management.
Save Money & Reduce Costs
When you outsource, you reduce your company cost. Normally, outsourcing can save a company anywhere from 30 to 60 percent. Whenever you hiring a team for it, you will pay for includes payroll, benefits, and other expenses. Another side, you could outsource a whole team for the money it would cost you to pay one employee. Therefore, it makes sense from a cost viewpoint to let someone else handle your human resource management.
Enhance Efficiency
Outsourcing allows a company to be more proficient. When they spotlight on what they are excellent at, they don’t have to worry about the other issues. The team of professionals that are skilled to deal with the issues can deal with the human resource management. They will complete the tasks effectively and this will maximize efficiency.
Outsourcing your human resources wants allows you to concentrate on your job and receive consulting help from HR experts. HR consulting can be very imperative especially for small business firm that are hoping to act big. Also, this consulting will help them efficiently deal with problems without having to go through trial and error.
Concentrate on Activities That Make Profits
Another benefit of outsourcing your HR needs is that it allows you to give attention to on activities that make a profit. You do not have to pay an employee to do something that will not make you money. Instead, you can pay someone else a lot less. And, possibilities are they will do it a lot better. Then, everyone else at the company can focus on their important work.
One Point Of Contact
You do not have to worry about certain issues when you outsource Human Resource management. You can also eliminate confusion among employees when issues arise. Your employees will have one contact. They will consult to this person or company when issues arise. Also, they will most likely be impartial and fair regarding issues because they are not as involved with the company. It is the best case situation for a work environment.
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Celebrities And Their Accessories
Being a celebrity means many things. First, you get a lot of attention. There are those who want it, those who don’t and of course, those who say they don’t but really do and will do anything to get it. Yes, that one is for you John Mayer. Second, you make boatloads of money. Some celebrities make more than others, but as a group they are among the highest paid people in the world. So, what do you do with all that money and all that attention? You flaunt it, of course!
There is a plethora of things celebrities like to throw their money at; luxury homes, vehicles, expensive trips, yachts, boats, even private jets. Each celebrity has their own personal “vice” that they love indulging in. But the one thing that seems to transcend to every celebrity is the love of jewelry and accessories.
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Handbags have always been popular among the ladies of tinsel town, but over the last couple years their popularity has skyrocketed. You will see the same celebrity with a different handbag or purse every day of the week. From Gucci to Burberry to Louis Vuitton the ladies must have the latest and greatest in fashion over their shoulder at all times.
The newest accessory that is sweeping Hollywood is dogs. That’s right, no need to rub your eyes, dogs. This trend started only a year or so ago. High profile celebrities began bringing their precious little puppies with them everywhere; department stores, coffee shops even into 5 Star Restaurants. It seems as if no place is off limits. You can catch stars like Blake Lively, Paris Hilton and Leighton Meester carrying their dogs everywhere. It has gone as far as designer clothes, designer food bowls and designer carrying cases for these four-legged friends. Can this get any trendier in 2009, or will it simply disappear?
The last accessory that both men and women fall for is jewelry. This has always been high on the Hollywood Celebrity list and the trend isn’t going away anytime soon. From gaudy wedding ring sets, to beautiful sterling silver necklaces and sterling silver earrings today’s celebrities wear it, and they make it look good. Even trends like tennis bracelets, anklets and the Tiffany’s Mesh Collection have been worn by celebrities over the last year. You will see stars like Beyonce, Victoria Beckham and Kate Hudson wearing the hottest and newest celebrity jewelry trends.
So, no matter what accessory celebrities like to drop big money on, they will spend it and spend it in style.
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Custom Essays – Cheating or Study Aids?
What is a custom essay? A custom essay is a paper written by a ‘ghostwriter’ – i.e. a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other content but who does not receive any credit for it. The essay is ‘custom’ because it is written to the student’s exact essay question. A custom essay may be distinguished from a pre-written essay obtained from an ‘essay bank’ or ‘paper mill’. These types of essays are past essays donated by students, either in exchange for part of the sale proceeds or in exchange for access to other pre-written essays. They will be essays written in answer to a particular topic and therefore not ‘custom’ to the student’s essay question.
Where did custom essays come from? Getting another student to write your paper for you is one of the oldest ‘cheats’ in the book – this might have been in exchange for cash, or if the student was weak, as a result of threats. This underground business was formalised in 2003 when Barclay Littlewood founded ‘Academic Answers Limited’, a registered UK company that trades under various names including UK Essays, Law Essays, Law Teacher and Degree Essays. The Company sought to clean up the industry by giving the custom essay customer, who would be used to dealing with dodgy companies often based in poorer, non-English speaking countries, a legitimate and worthy customer service experience. The Company attracted much criticism as ‘encouraging cheating’ and spawned many ‘copycat’ services.
How do custom essay services work? The customer orders their essay usually through an essay company’s website. The Company sends out the order to their team of writers and those writers who can complete the project will put themselves forward to do the work. The Company usually seeks payment from the customer at this point. When the customer pays, the Company picks the writer they think is best suited to the project and tells them to start. The customised essay is delivered on the day the customer has agreed with the Company.
Is it cheating to use a custom essay service? Arguably, to use the service alone is not cheating. Take, for example, a lecturer who sets a nice easy essay question: ‘Who was John F Kennedy?’. Most students will use Google to search for initial information on this topic and they will find some 7.6 million answers to their question. The process of reading through these answers is not cheating. However – if the student takes one of the answers and hands it in, passing it off as their own work, then without doubt, they are cheating. In fact, there are many more subtle ways they could use their material to cheat – rewording a website they found, rearranging words, citing the source but relying too heavily on the material – and so on. But they could also use the material as a guide and write their own, original answer to the question set. In the same way, a student who orders a custom essay can use the essay as a guide and can write their own original answer to the question that has been set for them. They can even do their own research.
How can a student benefit from a custom essay? Universities are often cited in the press as saying that when a student orders a custom essay, they are being lazy – all the work is done for them. However, our earlier example of using Google or using a Question and Answer book – or even a model answer provided by the tutor themselves – shows that there are times during the research process when the student will come across what they think is the right answer. However, this does not mean they have to copy the answer word for word, neither does it mean that what they have found is the only answer and they should stop researching. If a student takes a custom essay and uses the sources to ‘read up’ on a subject, and to help them generate more sources and a greater understanding, then the custom essay is just a stepping-stone on the road to something greater. It is an example – a template, if you like – for students to see how the question could be dealt with – but after doing their own research, the student could well think that there are far better ways of dealing with the question!
When is using a custom essay service cheating? The problem that is often publicised by the Press is that not all students who use custom essay services will use the service honestly. Some will hand in the essay that has been written for them, without doing any work themselves. When custom essays are viewed in this context, they help students to cheat and they reduce the value of a university education. Honest students, who do their own research and writing, are angry to know that their counterparts have completed the same degree, gained a better mark than them – and not lifted a finger for themselves.
But hang on .. degrees aren’t all about essays! True. Even the most dishonest student HAS to do some work. Why? Because degrees usually involve at least: (a) Some practical assessments; and (b) An exam – or more often, several exams. So for the great majority of degrees, it’s not possible to cheat your way through university, even with the help of the best custom essay company. However – let’s say that in weighting your degree, your coursework element is worth 50% and indeed, the custom essays you receive and submit get you full marks. Your exam is worth 50% and you need a 40% grade to pass. This means you can get away with writing 2.2 standard answers in your exam and still gain a 2.1 degree, or writing 2.1 answers in your exam and still gain a 1st degree. This doesn’t work in every case though – the Open University for example, grade your course based on your exam and your coursework. If you only gain a 2.1 in your coursework then you can only get a 2.1 for that module, even if you get 100% in the exam. Even in that case, you could use custom essays to significantly reduce your workload. You could, for example, submit them all as coursework and have a lot more time to revise for the exam as a result. So understandably, there is a great deal of concern from Universities and from the Press about how these tools can be misused.
If they are open to misuse, why are custom essays still legal? Custom essays are 100% legal, just as model answers that teachers hand out are 100% legal. Question and Answer books such as those produced by Blackstones are also 100% legal and sometimes, the questions in those are very, very close to the questions set for essays and for exams. The idea of these resources is that they are used as guides – they are not to be copied verbatim with no other research done. There are many things that are open to misuse that are still legal. Alcohol can be abused to the point of death but it also can be enjoyed sensibly, and so it is not a banned substance. Many over-the-counter drugs are potentially lethal if taken in large doses, but they also can cure the symptom of headaches, stomachaches and so forth – so they are not banned. Knives can kill, but they are also useful for chopping food. All these things have a use – as do custom essays. However, because the custom essay industry arose from a shady background, unlike alcohol, over-the-counter drugs and knives, people are not educated properly in their use and they do use them to cheat. This problem is further accelerated by the fact that a huge number of essay companies are happy to let their customers hand in the work and don’t offer any guidance on how it should be used. In addition, because the work is custom, it is difficult for teachers to detect that the student is cheating.
How could universities stamp out this kind of cheating? Universities have already developed several strategies to combat this type of academic fraud. Some professors require students to submit electronic versions of their term papers, so that the text of the essay can be compared against databases of essays that are known to be plagiarised, ‘essay mill’ term papers. Although the student is ordering a ‘custom essay’ and expects it to be 100% original, in fact, many companies just rehash internet content and previously submitted work so what the customer receives is nothing like original – and so they get caught cheating when they hand it in. Other universities allow lecturers to give students oral examinations on papers which a lecturer believes the student did not write; if the student is unfamiliar with the content of an essay that they have submitted, then the student can be charged with academic fraud. Most lecturers know their students’ work well and will quickly spot if a student has changed style.
Should custom essay companies be banned? Universities would certainly like to solve the problem by banning custom essay companies. However, the likely effect of this is that the service would just go ‘underground’ as it was prior to 2003. There are other ways that the problem could be dealt with. For example, if custom essay companies agreed to submit all of their papers to the universities to scan, then students could not hand in the work as they would be quickly detected. Barclay Littlewood of Academic Answers Limited has offered in the press to discuss this possibility with the relevant authorities, on the understanding that those authorities stop banning the use of his company, but to date, the prospect of working with the Company has not been entertained.
To use .. or not to use? That is the question! The answer is a matter for your own judgement – if you plan on using a custom essay service to cheat, then it is likely you’ll be caught. The fact that the essay is 100% original is no safeguard for your lecturer’s sharp eye and if you’ve not done your research, you could be caught out when asked difficult questions about the content or the sources you’ve read. If you’re planning on using the custom essay properly, it’s a fantastic piece of research to use as a starting point for your own work. Don’t forget, however, that there are many dishonest websites out there – make sure you know where they’re based and ensure they are 100% legitimate, or you’ll end up paying a lot for something you could have found on Google for free.
Jennifer is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, holding the LL.B with first class honours and having over six years of experience as a lawyer in private practice. She now works for a private company in the Midlands and, in her spare time, writes for various websites. On this topic, she recommends Essay Cheat and Plagiarism.me, two sites devoted to the topic of essays and cheating in the context of university education.
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