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How Dealing With Rejection Helped Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Ann Corcoran is a highly successful investor, consultant, and businesswoman. She is famous for being a shark investor on the ABC show Shark Tank.

Throughout most of her life, Barbara Corcoran felt that she has been most shaped for her business endeavors not by her successes, but by her failures and her rejections. Everybody fails, but she stresses that the important part of failure is not letting it affect you in a negative way. It is the staying down part that will hurt you the most, not the failure itself. It is important to get back on your feet again and prepare to go after the next potential client, instead of sulking on the failure and letting it ruin your outlook.

Analysis Of The State Of The Real Estate Market With Zillow

Zillow's strategy for online real estate market domination

All the stakeholders from different sectors of the economy including bankers, reporters, government officials, think tankers, lawmakers and other sundry wonks met in downtown Washington at the Ronald Reagan Building to brainstorm ways to reform the housing finance system.

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3 Real Estate Scams And How To Avoid Them

One of the attendees during the May AARP conference shared her experience on how she had been conned by a fake company posing as a state affiliated housing agency. The victim was left at least 5 figures poorer after coughing up a whooping ten thousand dollars to the fraudsters. Well, this is a common experience shared by many people who fall prey to these criminals.

These scams have become so popular and so sophisticated that even though consumers are aware of them, they just have no idea how to avoid them. The three most common scams include loan modification scams, rental scams and workshop scams.

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Crowdfunding And Real Estate - A New Environment

Over the past five years the concept of crowdfunding has created an entirely new perspective on how to raise capital for projects. What started as a way to raise a few thousand dollars to make a video or produce a CD has morphed into an exciting new world of financing. In 2011 over $1.5 billion was raised in these small projects. It is believed that number doubled in 2012.

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Bay Buchanan Enters The World Of Real Estate

The Former United States Treasurer, Angela "Bay" Buchanan, is stepping into a new role in sales.  This follows a typical mold when it comes to career change for politicians.  First comes a public office campaign, then attaching to a new pol, followed by using the speaking circuit to his or her advantage.