Real estate management companies increase your online exposure

Management companies, are you looking to increase your online exposure?  Then, we recommend that you get listed in the Landlord Services section of Business.com.

What is Business.com? Business.com is an advance directory site dedicated to all types of business through out the world.  If you are a legitimate business with a website, then you should get listed here.  Their basic listing service costs about $199 a year, and will help increase your online exposure as the search engines will see your link and visit your site.  Once the search engines visit your site, they will index it and you will start showing up in the search engines results.  Of course, you need to have a search engine friendly website first.  For tips on optimization your website for organic search engine results, visit Serr.biz, our parent company.

Business.com also offers a pay per click model which you can also use to increase exposure of your services.  You can work directly through Business.com and your ads can also be displayed in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and more.

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With the current real estate market in decline, many homeowners are facing foreclosures. For many they (homeowners) look into refinancing their homes at lower interest rates and payments.

Unfortunately, there has been a rise in financial predators focusing on the desperate homeowners. Known as equity stripping, these scammers place ads offering help to distressed homeowners. When contacted, these predators promise cash upfront, free monthly rent and the chance to remain in their homes in the long run. What usually happens is that the deed to the home is taken over by someone else who then borrows as much money as possible against the house, pockets the cash and homeowners usually end up losing thier house anyways.

According to an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center in Washington, current conditions of the real estate market are perfect for these scams. "We are at the end of a period of rising real estate prices, so a lot of people have equity in their homes. But we also have a foreclosure crisis." states the attorney.

Read the full article at: The New York Times

Since 1990, the Harlem neighborhood has seen the construction of about 4,500 condominiums with the majority of the condo's having been built since 2000. There has also been a surge in the development of office, hotel and retail locations.

A recent study by the appraisal firm Miller Samuels showed that the average price per foo rose 39.5% between 2005 and 2006 for Central and East Harlem condominiums. This is the biggest increase for a Manhattan neighborhood.

Shimon Shkury, the managing partner at Massey Knakal Realty Services, states " New York's condominium market continues to be cited as the exception to the rule in terms of national housing markets. Many renters found market rate rent increases so substantial that their preference in the 'A rent-or-buy dilemma' quickly changed to buy."

Read full article at: The New York Sun