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Ten years ago, most real estate investors would have shied away from an investment in a condominium. Traditional appreciation favored single-family homes; condominium appreciation tended to be a fraction of the appreciation rate of homes. However, in the last decade this trend has been reversed condominium sales are not only steadily increasing, but in many housing markets like Arizona, they are even outpacing single-family homes.

Arizona offers strong investment potential in the condominium market because of the varied needs of the population. Condominium real estate appeals to many investors and home owners for a variety of reasons.

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Jim and Sally run a successful auto business, which they have built up over two decades and have expanded to three stores and many of their friends keep saying, You should Franchise. They think about this for about five years read a few books, like Franchising for Dummies, The E-Myth , The Franchising Bible and many others on the shelves of the new big book store in town with the coffee shop inside. They finally decide that it makes sense especially as they have friends and loyal employees who wish to be associated with them and even own the first franchises. So they set out to franchise. They visit

an attorney since that says in all the books to do. Most books about franchising are, at least in part if not whole, written by S2D2s (lawyers: S2P2s; Self-Serving Parasites of Planet) anyway, so they take that advice and visit an attorney. The S2D2 explains the MUD and helps by charging them a good chunk of change; $35,000 to prepare a boilerplate document which is so complicated they could not do it on their own without years of study. They give the S2D2 (scoundrel) the money and they look at the document and start asking questions. They do not ask him about the price gouging laws that their state has after all the flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, although they feel severally violated in the outrageous costs to prepare the documents. After all there is some new shop equipment they need to test cars to stay in compliance with the latest smog certificates and they are not cheap either. So they ask some typical questions instead of why they had to pay so much.

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We have a serious problem brewing with GPS navigation systems for automobiles and even motorcycles. There are however problems with this devise as a high tech toy are more serious than you might think. Ask anyone in a metro area who has bought a new car with one of those cool GPS upgrades for their SUV or new sports car. We have had our customers complain (customers of the carwash business, which is my profession). Oh they love the gadget, but they are under whelmed by the lack of data and streets, which are not listed. You see we have been seeing incredible suburban growth in many cities. Places near large DMA metros are a problem out in the middle

class suburbs. In many areas such as outside Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Miami, Orlando, Atlanta, DC Subs, etc. And in NJ, NC, NV, OH lots of other fast growing growth pockets.

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Venecia Davis, “The Great Wall of Champions on Jackrabbit Road,” Touchstone, vol. XIX (2000), 39-47.

This article examines the development of the Cypress Creek golf course and the Champions clubhouse and the factors that necessitated the construction of a sound attenuation wall along FM 1960. In the mid 1950s, two professional golfers, Jimmy Demaret and Jack Burke, Jr., decided to become partners in a golf course in Houston. An attorney friend suggested they buy a five hundred tract of land along FM 1960, which was about twenty-two miles from Houston. Although Demaret and Burke bought the land, they did not plan to build their golf course there at that time. They changed their mind after learning that the new Houston

Intercontinental Airport and the new Interstate Highway, I-45, would be located nearby.

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Most of the time geography plays a role in deciding where to go for vacation; you want to take the family somewhere fun and interesting but not too far away or too far out of your budget. Upon hearing of Hill Country, a region of Central Texas known for attracting nature, adventure, music and barbeque lovers alike, it might be assumed that this is one of those places that ll just have to do meaning that the only people who come here are Texans just trying to make the most of where they live. Austinites, San Antonians and Houston dwellers definitely tend to stray beyond their respective city limits, but the gifts of Texas Hill Country

are such that anyone would enjoy a few days out here.

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