Property management is hard, finding good tenants is even harder. So once you find one, here is a couple of ways to keep him. Long term leases up that include longevity-based discounts and bonuses on rent can help keep good tenets staying long term and inspire better behavior.
After 12 months is a good time to give residents a small discount on their 13th or 14th month of rent if the resident lives violation-free and have no late payments.
After 24 consecutive months with no rental agreement violations and no late payments. Give residents a slightly larger discount on their 25th month of rent or for the month of December if it is close. This is also a good time to get them to re-sign into another long term lease.
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Al Capp
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
Al Capp
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.
Al Capp
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
Al Capp
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
Al Capp
Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Al Capp
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by Bob Berman from http://www.almanac.com
Source: Adapted from an article in The 2001 Old Farmer’s Almanac
Sister planet. Nearest neighbor. Goddess of love. How appealing the planet Venus sounds! But the strange cloudy world is actually a land of paradox and horror.
Venus’ Oddities
Few who gaze longingly at Venus are aware of the planet’s oddities.
- Venus’ surface never budges from about 850°F, day and night.
- The air is suffocatingly dense, packed with 50 times greater pressure than a pressure cooker.
- Its atmosphere provides no oxygen whatsoever.
- Venus’ day is longer than its year. Venus spins on its axis in 243 Earth-days but orbits the Sun in 225 Earth-days.
- Its clouds are made of white sulfuric acid. Because of this, Venus is deceivingly reflective as a mirror; fully 76 percent of the sunlight gets bounced away from the shiniest planet in our solar system.
- Beneath clouds of concentrated acid droplets lies clear compressed air that distorts everything into fun-house-mirror images.
Interestingly, the Venusian surface is brightly lit despite being eternally overcast. With illumination that equals Earth’s on a cloudy day, even inexpensive disposable cameras would take correctly exposed photos there, a situation encountered on no other planet.
Of course, no budding photographer or human being is likely to go to Venus. Ever. It’s touching that we named the most luminous “star” after the love goddess. For all eternity, our nearest planet—that dazzling beacon in the western sky—will tantalize with a warning label: Look but don’t touch.
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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
John Bates Clark
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
John Bates Clark
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
John Bates Clark
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
John Bates Clark
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The Reno Marine Corps League, Wal-Mart stores and News Talk 780 KOH are partnering for a program to provide new boot socks to Marine Corps units deployed to Afghanistan.
Saturday, May 21 ( Armed Forces Day ) the Reno Marine Corps League, with the assistance of Active Duty Marines from the Reno/Sparks community, will be accepting new, packaged boot socks at the Kietzke Lane Wal-Mart from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The goal is to provide 2400 pairs of boot socks, in black or brown colors, to active duty Marine Corps infantry units deployed to Afghanistan. No white socks will be accepted.
Look for the Marine Corps League tent and the KOH Radio display outside the Kietzke Lane Wal-Mart.
read more at http://www.rgj.com/article/20110517/NEWS/110517028/Group-seeks-donations-Marine-boot-socks-program
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A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don’t believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
Desi Arnaz
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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RENO, Nev. – The University of Nevada will hold a Dream Team Ring Ceremony honoring the historic 2010 Nevada football team on Sunday, March 27 at the Eldorado Hotel-Casino, the school announced today.
The brunch is open to the public. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12.50 for children 13 and under. There are VIP Sponsorship tables of 8 also available with a Wolf Pack player and/or coach joining the table.
All proceeds will go to Nevada Football Summer School Scholarship Program, which is sponsored by the Nevada Football Alumni Association. Tickets are available via the Eldorado at (775) 786-5700. The event will be held at the Eldorado Convention Center. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. with the program beginning at 10 a.m.
The Wolf Pack football team will receive its 2010 Western Athletic Conference championship rings from the 13-1 season that culminated with a victory over Boston College in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. The event will feature a silent auction, a limited-edition commemorative poster and other unique opportunities, including autograph and photo availability.
This ceremony will mark perhaps the final gathering of the special group of players that made up the historic 2010 team, including quarterback Colin Kaepernick, running back Vai Taua, tight end Virgil Green, offensive lineman John Bender, and defensive end Dontay Moch, who were all first-team All-WAC selections.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it’s very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it’s a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
E. P. Thompson
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all.
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Daily Real Estate News | March 4, 2011 |
For the third straight week, long-term mortgage rates inched down, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly mortgage survey.
The 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 4.87 percent for the week, down from last week’s 4.95 percent. The rate was 4.97 percent at this time last year.
The 15-year mortgage rate also dipped for the week, averaging 4.15 percent, down from last week’s 4.22 percent.
The 5-year adjustable-rate mortgage averaged 3.72 percent, which is a drop from last week’s 3.8 percent average.
“Mortgage rates saw an overall improvement this week,” says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. “Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages were almost 0.2 percentage points below this year’s high set just three weeks ago.” This means that home buyers can now expect to pay $263 less per year on a $200,000 loan, Nothaft adds.
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Source: “30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage Drops for Third Consecutive Week,” Freddie Mac (March 3, 2011)
