When “Nothing But The Best” in Life Will Do When David Offutt describes his experience in real estate, it immediately becomes clear that the two-decades-plus veteran of the industry is not just experiencing a great deal of success; he is having a great deal of fun. “I love what I do,” he explained. “I know that every day I’m going to find an opportunity where I am going to impact
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Executive Summary By Kori Covrigaru PlanOmatic, the biggest and fastest provider of Property Insights and marketing services for the single-family rental industry nationwide, partnered with their client, Sparrow, a leading provider of well-kept single-family rental homes nationwide, to measure the impact of using a Matterport 3D Tour for rental property marketing. Challenge Sparrow had 2 main challenges to address in this study: 1. They needed to determine if there would
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The Secret to “Making Your Own Math” By Teresa Bilsky A business owner is interviewing accountants with a one-question interview, “What is two plus two?” Applicant after applicant answers four until finally an experienced applicant looks directly at the business owner and without any emotional reaction answers, “What do you want it to be?” Though this is intended to be merely humor, those who are experienced in tax planning smile
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There’s Plenty of Charm Left in the South’s “Magic City” By Carole VanSickle Ellis If you were hoping the much-hyped housing “cooldown” would make things more affordable in southeastern cities like Birmingham, Alabama, then it might be time to change your wait-and-see strategy for a faster-paced approach. In the southern “Magic City,” which boasts the largest metropolitan area in Alabama and claims a history of economic growth of nearly 4,000%
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Keep the Crypto. The Future is the Technology. By Jake Harris & Juan Huerta Imagine a bank that was purpose-built to handle nothing but projects. Every party associated with a project was welcome to come in and get their own bank account so they could buy and/or sell goods and services to others in the bank. Even the project itself could get a one-time-use bank account through which all the
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Building Relationships & Doing Good Business By Carole VanSickle Ellis At Vantage Point Title, Inc. (VPT), everything is about execution. However, there is a caveat that comes with a national title, escrow, and default-services provider that has, as senior co-president David Silcott proudly explained, “the experience that allows VPT to do the deals that other companies either choose not to or are not able to take on.” Silcott explained, “We
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