Work Hard and Earn Big

 

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What does it take to earn big? Does being successful in business have its own magic recipe? While everyone's success story is different, there are certain things in common that made an entrepreneur earn big and that is by working harder and smarter.

At some point in our life, we will experience a financial crisis and feel that our income is not enough to support a comfortable life for us and for our family. With the rising cost of basic commodities, bills and mortgage to pay, it is everybody's motivation to earn big.

As mentioned, there are certain commonalities in terms of personality and character traits the top earners have. They work hard and earn big. These are the following:

Pursue Your Passion: This old saying remains to be true. If you're planning on building a business today of any kind, it should be in relation to something that interests you and that you really love doing. Pursuing business opportunities that you absolutely love will show your ability to connect with others. Be confident and extremely persistent in following your dreams.

Establish Attainable Goals: Establishing attainable and clear goals is an important step to becoming a high earner. You can start a small business, grow slowly and steadily. Setting and establishing goals will measure your progress in a specified time period and help achieve your vision.

Be Persistent and Resilient.Show Hard Work: No business is successful the first day. Many people have succeeded because of persistence and not getting discouraged by life's failures. Should you fall on your face, get up back. You need to make mistakes and learn from them. If you reach your goals, don't stop there. Work hard and earn big.

Know Yourself: Every entrepreneur has its own strengths and weaknesses. A good one plays on their strengths and builds a business that can compensate for their weaknesses. That means knowing what you aren't good at, admitting it, and structuring your workflow so that you don’t get in your own way.

Stays fit and maintain a disciplined lifestyle: Most big earners are high energy people who are in top physical shape. Evidence suggests that keeping fit and healthy can benefit your job performance, which may in turn impress the boss and help you climb the ladder and get that raise or continue to improve on your own business.

Money alone will not bring happiness; however, it will give you the opportunities to obtain the conveniences in life such as a perfect home for your family. Moreover, it gives you a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction of being able to achieve something rewarding. Remember, if you love it, you can hardly call it work.

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Work Hard and Earn Big

Scottsdale Homes for Sale in Troon AZ

 

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The Scottsdale homes for sale in Troon AZ are located in north Scottsdale, offering a stunning view of the valley and boulder outcroppings. Known for its world class golf, Troon North is one of the most desired communities is Scottsdale, AZ.

Troon North is more than just about luxury homes and world class golf. The community is situated adjacent to a 185-acre mountain preserve. The higher elevation brings not only a cooler summer temperature and cleaner air but also a panorama scenic views and magnificent city lights of the Valley of the Sun.

Looking for property in this area? You can view all the current Scottsdale homes for sale in Troon AZ right here now.

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Even though homes for sale in Troon North Scottsdale, AZ are located in the middle of Sonoran Desert, residents can delight in the peaceful seclusion of private living but still within the close proximity to everyday conveniences of grocery stores, shopping, restaurant, schools and medical facilities. Thirteen distinct neighborhoods are located in the 1,800 acre development ranging from townhomes to single family homes, eco-friendly estates and condos. Most homes have outdoor dining areas for entertaining neighbors and friends.

The Troon North Golf Club is regarded as one of Scottsdale's finest desert golf experience with two internationally acclaimed 18-hole courses. Resident Membership is available at no charge to all Troon North property owners which includes the following benefits: reduced green fees, the use of the driving range and a special phone line with priority tee time.

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In addition, Club membership benefits include golf privileges, range balls and reduced fees for member guests. Available also to the Troon North residents is the Troon North community park. It is a popular destination offering tennis, basketball, a play area for the little people and a turf play area.

Troon North is a place where you can truly enjoy all the good life and the great outdoor living it has to offer. For inquiries on homes for sale in Troon North, Scottsdale, AZ, email or call us at 480-595-6412.

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Scottsdale Homes for Sale in Troon AZ

In a Land Far, Far Away

In a land far, far away the US Military during 1966 builds its force in-country to 385,000 men in Vietnam plus, an additional 60,000 sailors stationed off shore. Part of that build-up was our additional MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command - Special Operation Group) to help in the war effort against North Vietnam. This was the beginning of a serious build-up of personnel to a high of  536,100. Of this number 66% were volunteers and 34% were drafted.

After many years I am going through some old 35 mm slides of that era and converting them to a digital format. The slides that follow are a few that has been converted and that I thought might be of some interest.

The photo below is of my cousin Denny and I. Denny was in the Marines Forced Recon and I was attached to MACV-SOG. What are the odds that we would see each other during a joint operation. Until that moment I wasn't aware the Denny was in Vietnam.

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[caption id="attachment_6423" align="alignleft" width="570"] Captured Weapon[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_6424" align="alignleft" width="570"] Base Camp in Camp Holloway - Pleiku Vietnam[/caption]

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[caption id="attachment_6429" align="alignleft" width="570"] Back from Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Mission[/caption]

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In a Land Far, Far Away

Nationally Sales of New Homes Increase to Match Two-Year High

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The operative word here is, national sales of new homes rose more than projected in July to match a two-year high. An important fact to remember is that real estate is geographical in nature and while the west may have stunning increases, elsewhere in the U.S. may not be as stellar.

THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Sales climbed 3.6 percent to a 372,000 annual pace, following a 359,000 rate in June that was higher than previously estimated, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Last month’s rate was the same as in May, which was the strongest since April 2010. The median forecast of 72 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a rise to 365,000.

Buyers are returning to the market to take advantage of cheaper properties and record-low mortgage rates, helping to boost orders at new home builders. Competition exists from foreclosures, unemployment exceeding 8 percent, and limited credit pose hurdles to a more pronounced rebound.

Some prognosticators believe the demand could continue to climb right on into 2013.

• Sales of new houses were up 25 percent from a year ago – Source: Commerce Department


• The median price for a new house decreased 2.5 percent in July from the same month last year, to $224,200.


• The value of all U.S. homes climbed 1.8 percent in the second quarter from the previous three months, the biggest gain since late 2005. Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency

Sales of new homes, tabulated when contracts are signed, are considered a timelier barometer than purchases of previously owned dwellings, which are calculated when a contract closes. Newly constructed houses accounted for 6.7 percent of the residential market in 2011, down from a high of 15 percent during the boom of the past decade.

The NAR figures also showed distressed sales, comprised of foreclosures and short sales, in which the lender agrees to a transaction for less than the balance of the mortgage, accounted for 24 percent of existing-home purchases. The share was less than the prior month and down from 29 percent in July 2011. Of those, 12 percent were foreclosed houses and 12 percent were short sales.

You can review the local August 2012 financials for the Scottsdale real estate area at Maricopa County Real Estate Market Watch.

Nationally Sales of New Homes Increase to Match Two-Year High

April Price Rise Makes for Another Increase

April’s Price Rise Makes for Another Increase in Home Values

Nationally, housing prices have bottomed and are on the rise. Asking prices on for-sale homes were 1.9% higher in April than one quarter ago. A 0.5% month-over-month rise in April, on top of month-over-month price increases in March and February, makes for three months in a row of rising asking prices, after adjusting for typical seasonal trends. In fact, prices have been stable or rising for the past eight months, except for a dip in December 2011. This marks a new milestone: asking prices were 0.2% higher in April than a year ago. Before April, prices were still falling year-over-year.



Not only are rising prices starting to look like a real trend: they’re also coming to a market near you — if they haven’t already. Asking prices increased year-over-year in 44 out of the 100 largest metropolitan areas, with Miami and Phoenix leading the charge.

Why these markets? One factor is job growth, which boosts housing demand. Miami, Phoenix, Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills (suburban Detroit) and Denver all saw strong employment gains in the past year. Another factor is the big price declines after the bubble, which attracted house hunters and investors searching for bargains to those markets. Most of the metros with the largest price increases in the last year had huge price declines during the bust, including Phoenix, Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills and the four Florida metros in the top ten. But among the metros with the largest price declines over the past year, only three–Sacramento, Las Vegas and Fresno–had huge overall price drops after the bubble burst.



 



Note: Rankings based on the year-over-year changes in asking price among the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas.

Seattleites, take heart: in the most recent quarter, most of the metros with year-over-over price declines have turned around. Prices rose quarter over quarter in 92 of the 100 largest metros, including in Seattle, Las Vegas and Atlanta.

April Price Rise Makes for Another Increase

Short Sales Takes a Fast Track

Bank of America Improves Short Sale Procedures

Bank of America is making changes to its short sale procedures and introducing an improved task flow within the short sale technology module from an private online system called Equator. The goal: to reduce the timeframe for a short sale decision to less than three weeks.

Starting Saturday, April 14, real estate professionals working with BofA will be required to submit five documents for short sales initiated with an offer:

• Purchase Contract including Buyer’s Acknowledgment and Disclosure


• HUD-1


• IRS Form 4506-T


• Bank of America Short Sale Addendum, which includes the Agent Certification form


• Bank of America Third-Party Authorization Form

The acknowledgement and disclosure form, short sale addendum, and the form for third-party authorization are available through the company’s online Agent Resource Center.

The third-party authorization form is a new standardized document developed specifically for BofA. Previously, the lender accepted third-party authorization forms in differing formats and from a variety of sources when transacting a short sale.

Bank of America says it recognized a need for greater compliance and consistency with this important document and has now created its own form to standardize the third-party authorization process. The two-page document requires signed acknowledgments from all borrowers and designated representatives in a short sale. Beginning April 14, BofA will accept only the official Bank of America Third-Party Authorization Form for short sales.

The bank’s new short sale process will enable real estate agents, brokers, attorneys, and other short sale specialists involved in pre-foreclosure transactions to complete tasks such as document collection, valuations, and underwriting simultaneously. With these steps running concurrently, the timeline from initiation to closing is reduced. In fact, Bank of America says it will now be able to provide a decision on a short sale offer in 20 days. Typically, BofA’s short sale process has taken anywhere from 45 days upwards.

In continuing to streamline the decision process, should the buyer walk away from the sale, Bank of America is giving agents five days to submit a backup offer. Previously, the backup offer window was 14 days. Interested buyers are limited to two counteroffers and will receive a response from the lender within three days. BofA notes that all email messaging between designated selling agents and their Bank of America short sale specialist will continue to occur within the Equator system. Agents will receive a standard notice via email to log into the system and retrieve their messages.

Bank of America’s short sale and REO executive Bob Hora says the company expects short sales to continue to increase and is taking steps to ensure it is providing decisions quickly and real estate agents are alerted of status as soon as possible.

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Short Sales Takes a Fast Track

Most Luxurious Homes among the Luxury Homes

Most Luxurious Homes Amoung the Luxury Homes

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Forbes hailed this 27,125 square foot home as the most expensive home in Arizona, which sold for a whopping $35 million. The property has five bedrooms, two one-bedroom apartments and seven bathrooms. It comes with a 24k gold sink, Italian limestone, indoor tennis court, an indoor swimming pool, and the usual patios, skylights, wet bar, four fireplaces, and the list just goes on. This beautiful home also has an air-filtering system that cleans the outside air that comes in. The house was built for those who are prone to allergies. Located in Northern Scottsdale, the property lies within some of the most exclusive real estate in Arizona and offers spectacular views of Pinnacle Peak. This estate may come with a hefty price but it has plenty of space to go around with the rich luxurious features.

A dream for all but a reality only for some. A large-scale million dollar estate, obviously, doesn't come cheap and it usually is not within the average American's budget. Of course, there are a few who are greatly endowed that it would seem that their dream home is only a rub away from the magical lamp.

Scottsdale Estates is known for its beautiful luxury homes. With Carefree Estates, beauty and affordability come in single packages. There are prices are for anyone and everyone's budget – tight or loose.

They say, luxury comes with a price, but with the Luxury Valley Homes Team, you'll be sure to find a great variety of homes that fit your lifestyle.

Most Luxurious Homes among the Luxury Homes