Category Archives: General

Zero-down Mortgages are back – Old Wine in a New Bottle?

No-money-down mortgage financing is back. Doesn’t that ring a bell? Isn’t it one of the things that got us into our ongoing real estate quagmire causing thousands of foreclosures, sending home values crashing and crippling the finances of many homeowners … Continue reading

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Tumblr for Property Managers

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and a social media network. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Tumblr has over 91 million blogs and 41 billion posts to date. It is very popular … Continue reading

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Housing Market Forecast for 2013

Happy New Year ya’ll! 2012 is history and it’s time to look forward to 2013 in terms of the housing market outlook and predictions. Many experts are predicting a real estate recovery in 2013, but they are also quick to … Continue reading

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Is Black Friday morphing into Black Thanksgiving Week?

Till the mid-2000’s, Black Friday – the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, kicked off the shopping season for the holidays. Brick and mortar retailers were the only choice and storekeepers opened their doors at 5am, and herds of voracious shoppers would … Continue reading

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Presidential Election and the Housing Market

Regardless of whether the Republican challenger Mitt Romney or the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama becomes the next President, the fact of the matter is, the American public will expect a strong leadership role from the next White House occupant about … Continue reading

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Pinterest for Property Managers

Pinterest, the popular photo sharing website is now considered to be a part of the elite list of top ten social networks. It made history in January of this year by becoming the fastest website in history to break through … Continue reading

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What’s the Ideal Screen Size for Smartphones?

Many new smartphones have been announced or released in the past few weeks. While each claims to have the fastest processor, greatest battery life, newest OS and so on, there is one common theme – screen sizes are becoming larger. … Continue reading

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Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization, which is also called client virtualization, enables the use of virtual machines to let multiple network users maintain individualized desktops on a single, centrally located computer or server. The central machine may operate at a residence, business, or … Continue reading

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Planet Synergy’s Review of 2011

2011 will soon be history. Just like any year, this one also had its share of good, bad and ugly events. Without ranking them in any particular order we’ve come up with our own list of events that left their … Continue reading

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No iPhone 5 – Will Android sink its teeth into Apple?

Today we witnessed a classic example of what happens when a company sets a very high standard for itself and comes up short on expectations despite delivering a very good product. Over the past decade Apple has successfully managed to … Continue reading

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