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Economy’s Cold Reality Has Created Some Hot Properties

October 2, 2009
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We’ve noticed a really unusual real estate trend lately as families look for ways to increase their cash reserves by selling off long-held properties.
They’re not selling vacation cabins or those condos they bought as investments. Frankly, the residential real estate market has not recovered enough for anyone to make decent money doing that.
Instead, some clients [...]

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Cut Benefits or Jobs? You Pick!

May 27, 2009
Photo by Stephen Edmonds

Check out another trend that our small business owners are suffering under.  Do you cut jobs or do you cut benefits?
The recession is pounding on the small business community.  It is ugly, and will get uglier this summer.
The newspapers are not reporting it. I doubt you will ever see this in the New York Times, [...]

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Small Biz Owners Skipping Salary in Bad Economy

April 24, 2009
Photo by craigfinlay

The Wall Street Journal published an article about business owners scrambling to stay afloat in the tough economy by skipping their own paychecks, sometimes for months at a time.
Those interviewed for the story already had cut staff, dipped into personal savings, reduced their own salaries and renegotiated bill payments with suppliers. Have you had to [...]

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