camilobourg: Parenting-Talk: Fostering family bonding activity

We are always on a lookout for activities that we can do as a family and that helps to create bonding and bring us closer.

One such family bonding activities that we are doing right now is a?Scrapbook App created by?SingTel?as part of its ?Home Without Walls? initiative.?

What does it do? It is a meaningful activity that?encourages Singaporeans from all walks of life to capture, share and celebrate their unique life experiences through the use of multimedia technology. The result is a collection of heartfelt stories and photos about family that truly inspires Singaporeans to make a connection with one another.?The collection can be viewed on?SingTel?s ?Home Without Walls? at?www.homewithoutwalls.com?
starting 28 September 2012.


The main aim is to encourage Singaporeans to connect with their families and forge strong bonds with their loved ones and community.




When we told Gor Gor about this project that we will be doing together. He is so excited as this is the first time we are doing?Scrapbook.?


In fact, this is a modern version of scrapbook which uses digital media instead of the traditional paper and photos scrapbook.

He can?t wait to show and tell his friends in school about this.?



Di Di is also having fun doing the Scrapbook app. It is very easy to do, try it and it is a good bonding activities for the whole family.?
?It is very interesting to do a digital scrapbook and the boys love it as they are big fans of digital media.

More about Singtel??Home Without Walls?, it?encourages Singaporeans to connect with their families and forge strong bonds with their loved ones and community,?SingTel?has organized a scrapbook contest where users can share and relate their family stories through a digital photo album. ?


To bring this photo album to life, Singtel would like to invite you to try and create your own. It is free! Please go to?www.homewithoutwalls.com/scrapbook.?






Login to the above website with your Facebook email, password and remember to Like it. Follow the instructions, you are on your way to create a photo album.?

There are four themes to choose for your album:

1)?Mum?s the word

2) Father figure
3) Just kidding
4)?Grand for a reason

SingTel?s ?Home Without Walls? Family Scrapbook, not only allow you to explore?the creative applications of technology by enabling you to create a photo album of special memories, it also has a scrapbook contest, the top ten submissions will each win a printed copy of their very own special memories album.

Hurry, do join the ?Home Without Walls??Scrapbook?contest. Enjoy and have fun doing it! The dateline is 23 October 2012!

We will be sharing our photos album with our readers, do check out our website :)

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Lebanese on edge after car bomb linked to Syria

A family walks past flaming tires used as a roadblock to protest the death of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, head of the intelligence division of Lebanon's domestic security forces in a car bomb attack targeting his convoy, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. Protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks around Lebanon on Saturday in a sign of boiling anger over a massive car bomb that killed a top security official and seven other people a day earlier ? a devastating attack that threatened to bring Syria's civil war to Lebanon.(AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

A family walks past flaming tires used as a roadblock to protest the death of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, head of the intelligence division of Lebanon's domestic security forces in a car bomb attack targeting his convoy, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. Protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks around Lebanon on Saturday in a sign of boiling anger over a massive car bomb that killed a top security official and seven other people a day earlier ? a devastating attack that threatened to bring Syria's civil war to Lebanon.(AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanese students pass a burning tire laid by Sunni protesters, angry at the killing of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, to block a road in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing a top security official and several others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, a top security official in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A highway link to Beirut International airport is blocked by garbage containers laid by Sunni protesters, angry at the killing of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing the top security official and several others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of Brig. Gen. al-Hassan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)

A Lebanese man passes between a burning tire and garbage containers laid by Sunni protesters angry at the killing of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, to block a road in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing the top security official and several others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of al-Hassan. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese citizens ride their motorcycles between garbage containers laid by Sunni protesters, angry at the killing of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, to block roads, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing the top security official and several others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of Brig. Gen. al-Hassan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Lebanese protesters erected flaming roadblocks and gunmen roamed the streets Saturday in a city on edge after the assassination of a top security official in a powerful car bomb the prime minister linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

The crisis raised a terrifying specter for Lebanese who fear their country could easily plunge back into cycles of violence and reprisal that have haunted it for decades.

Friday's blast in the heart of Beirut's Christian area killed eight people, including the country's intelligence chief, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan. It was the deadliest bombing in Beirut in four years, shattering the country's uneasy calm.

The government declared a national day of mourning for the victims Saturday, but protesters burned tires and set up roadblocks in anger.

Sharbal Abdo, who lives in the neighborhood where the bomb went off, brought his 6-year-old son, Chris, and 12-year-old daughter, Jane, to see the destruction Saturday.

"They were very afraid yesterday," he said. "They need to face this situation. It may be their future."

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday linked the bombing to al-Hassan's high-profile investigation this summer that uncovered what authorities called a plot by Syria to provoke chaos in Lebanon with bombings and assassinations.

"I don't want to prejudge the investigation, but in fact we cannot separate yesterday's crime from the revelation of the explosions that could have happened," Mikati said at a news conference following an emergency Cabinet meeting.

Mikati, who opponents believe is too close to Syria and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, offered to resign after the bombing, but was asked by President Michel Suleiman to stay.

Al-Hassan's probe led to the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, one of Assad's most loyal allies in Lebanon. Samaha, who is in custody, is accused of plotting a wave of attacks in Lebanon at Syria's behest. Indicted in absentia in the August sweep was Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, one of Assad's highest aides.

Samaha's arrest was an embarrassing blow to Syria, which has long acted with impunity in Lebanon. Syria has powerful allies here, including the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which now dominates the government.

For much of the past 30 years, Lebanese have lived under Syrian military and political domination.

Damascus' hold on Lebanon began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in truck bomb along Beirut's Mediterranean waterfront. Syria denied having any role. But broad public outrage in Lebanon forced Syria to withdraw its troops from the country.

The killings of anti-Syrian figures continued for years, however, and Assad has managed to maintain his influence in Lebanon through Hezbollah and other allies.

Now, as the Syrian civil war rages just across the border, Lebanon increasingly is getting sucked in.

Mikati said Saturday he had offered to resign after Friday's car bomb, but said Suleiman asked him not to plunge the country into more uncertainty.

The bombing raised fears that the crisis could unleash Lebanon's sectarian tensions, a dire scenario for a country that endured a devastating civil war of its own from 1975-1990.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon spoke Saturday with Suleiman and stressed the importance of "dissociating the country from regional events" and in Lebanon's sovereignty, a U.N. spokesman said.

The Syrian unrest has already enflamed tensions here. Many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims have backed Syria's mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiite Muslims have tended to back Assad. Al-Hassan was a Sunni whose stances were widely seen to oppose Syria and Hezbollah.

Hundreds of Sunni protesters marched in force through downtown Beirut Saturday, placing the blame squarely on Syria and Hezbollah for al-Hassan's killing.

"Hezbollah is a terrorist group!" they shouted.

Police were trying to identify the bombers and find out how they managed to target al-Hassan, an important security figure who traveled under great protection and who likely took more precautions following Samaha's arrest.

"We don't expect to reveal the crime within few hours," police commander Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi told Future TV. "The investigation is like a puzzle. You collect the pieces and put them together in a logical way."

Al-Hassan had many potential enemies.

Besides his investigation of Samaha, al-Hassan helped investigate the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a powerful Sunni figure. An international tribunal indicted four members of Hezbollah for Hariri's killing, although the group denies involvement.

His department also had a role in breaking up several Israeli spy rings inside Lebanon in recent years, Lebanese officials said.

Al-Hassan, 47, who was married with two children, is expected to be buried Sunday next to Hariri's tomb in downtown Beirut. His family arrived in Lebanon on Saturday on a private plane from Paris, where they live.

Lebanon's top Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, condemned the assassination, calling it a "criminal explosion that targets Lebanon and its people." He also called for self-restraint, saying "the criminal will get his punishment sooner or later."

But many Lebanese were seething with anger.

In the eastern town of Marj, protesters tried to storm an office of the pro-Syrian Itihad group. Lebanese soldiers pushed them away, wounding five protesters, security officials said. Dozens of people who marched in protest in the border town of Moqueibleh came under fire from the Syrian side of the border, forcing them to disperse, the officials said.

The highway linking central Beirut with the city's international airport was closed, as well as the highway that links the capital with Syria, the officials said.

In the predominantly Sunni northern city of Tripoli, gunmen were roaming the streets on motorcycles and opening fire in the air.

The army issued a statement urging Lebanese to overcome the crisis and coordinate among themselves in order to give a chance to the "the criminal killers who tried through the crime to incite strife and split the country."

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Associated Press writer Barbara Surk contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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3. With regards to a lot of of us, on the internet video clip is easier and also more quickly to
generate as compared to information, reviews, as effectively as e-books.

You will be taught about industry study, keyword analysis, merchandise creation,
outsourcing. Consider this on your possess and it will turn into hell.
* Internet site- This can be a website or landing site or a squeeze web page
There are essentially three types of web site, a site, landing web page and a squeeze site.
Understanding when to use the proper one, how they must be optimized can be quite
complicated.
* Traffic- The most critical element to a on the web business.

Get this incorrect and you have no business. Visitors is the one most important element to
any online company. There are so a lot of distinct elements to visitors era, it really will get
puzzling.

Would you know how to piece these 3 elements all jointly to get the greatest result.

Almost certainly not. If you could comply with a net marketer with a established file it would
make daily life so considerably easier. You would obtain your ambitions that considerably
quicker.

Obtaining a mastermind group indicates that you surround on your own with people who
have similar ambitions as yourself. You can have a mastermind group in true daily life and
satisfy at cafes or at your residences. You can also have an on-line mastermind group in
which you talk on the internet in forums, membership web sites or with particular designed
application.

One particular of the techniques to getting the most out of a such a team is to have people
with various way of feelings, but with the exact same targets and dreams. For example, you
require a person who is previously where you want to be in the foreseeable future and you
require a single who is exactly where you exactly where in the earlier.

When we chat about world wide web advertising, you could be the one who is on his way to
getting a full-time earnings from the internet, even though another particular person is
already generating a lot of money on-line and finally a 3rd person who is just commencing


out with web advertising.

If we take a search at an instance that differs from internet advertising, we could search at a
playgroup. Most frequently you'll see a few moms with newborn babies and without having
more mature kids and you are going to see mothers who presently have raised a handful of
kids.

The enjoyable thing right here is that these mothers are developing a mastermind group, with
no even being aware of it. They every single give away their knowledge and their encounter
to the "new" members of the team, even though the new mothers are contributing to the
group with new ideas and a new way of viewing factors.

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Mumbai film festival: The writers of Tron: Legacy on their directing ...

Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal are an American writer-director duo. They wrote 2010?s Tron: Legacy and have recently written and directed their first movie, The Words, about a writer who has to deal with the consequences of plagiarising someone?s work, featuring a star-studded cast including Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Dennis Quaid.

The film, whose script was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, also had its world premiere at the 2012 edition of the Sundance Film Festival and is now premiering at the Mumbai Film Festival. In the interview, the duo talks about the rights and wrongs of plagiarism, the process of collaboration and how Satyajit Ray?s Pather Panchali has inspired a scene in their movie.

Before we start talking about the movie, I?m interested in knowing your personal takes on plagiarism. Having made a movie on the topic, do you overanalyse your work now?

Brian Klugman (BK): Not really, because I think, we are all subconsciously inspired by the writers and artistes we see and read. But stealing someone?s work verbatim is certainly a cardinal sin for writers.

Lee Sternthal (LS): Yeah, I feel the question about plagiarism is: At what point does something become outright thievery? At what point does it go from being inspiration to being something you have copied, so to speak? I?ll give you an example here. Brian loves and speaks a lot about the films of Satyajit Ray, and they are a huge influence on him. There?s actually a scene in our movie that we ended up cutting out later, which was inspired by Ray?s Pather Panchali. In the scene, Bradley Cooper?s character is on the bus, going to work, and he?s got so much hope in it. And then later, he?s coming back on the same bus and he?s totally broken.

So here, we?re quoting Ray?s work as inspiration. We used his scenes as a, sort of, jumping off point for our own work. And so, hopefully, in being inspired, we have used that work that came before us to discover our own voice and what we are trying to say. So that?s a good thing ? when your engagement with somebody?s work inspires you to push yourself to discover what you are trying to say, as opposed to copying down something to get a result ? that?s bad.

BK:
I think art was anyway intended to be a dialogue, you know.

The poster for Words

You guys you have had this script for 12 years. What was the starting point for it, and what made you both sure that this was the right project to debut with as directors?

BG: We set out as much to talk about plagiarism as we, kind of, wanted to address the realities of being an artiste and the realities of being a man, and being confronted with your own limitations. It actually started off as a conversation about writers who?ve lost their work, especially Earnest Hemingway, whose wife accidentally left some of his manuscripts on a train. So Lee and I really got into this conversation that made us think about how Hemingway would have reacted and what would have happened to the man who?d have found them? It was an incredibly fertile ground, so over the years, we kept coming back to this project.

LS: We saw a very personal connection to the film and to the character that Bradley Cooper plays in it, a young ambitious writer, who cheats himself out of the possibility of finding out how good he can be, when he plagiarises a story. We also connected to the character of the old man, played by Jeremy Irons, whose work disappeared from his life long ago, and when he confronts it again, he is also confronted with his past. It was just something very real and something we really wanted to tell.

BG: And then, as we moved forward, there were elements of real life that made it more interesting for us: the film is also a kind of comment on our society in general, a comment on this desire of getting everything immediately, the desire of getting an immediate gratification. So we connected to the many layers the story had.

Isn?t it a big gamble to be co-directing with your best friend? When did you guys first click as a collaborative team?

BG: Well, we have been friends since we were kids, so, I guess, we started making stuff up together since a very young age. I think that kind of history has been incredibly helpful to us in collaborating in that we never really talked about the details of how we would go about this. We never really outlined how it would work, we never defined it? it was just a very natural thing for us to do.

LS: You know, when it?s two people instead of one, people just want to know who wins the fights (laughs). But it?s not about that ? before we actually got this film, before we did anything actually, we were constantly having all sorts of conversations and arriving at a single vision of what we both wanted to do. So when we got into filmmaking, the most important thing was to have one voice, so people aren?t getting two different messages from us. And we communicated the same that to all the people we were trying to work with, whether behind the camera or in front of the camera. We are two different people with two different perspectives, but we really respect each other and we enjoy finding the middle ground. That makes it worthwhile and that?s the joy of it.

Do you guys compartmentalize by departments or do you take a decision on everything together?

LS: We collaborate on everything together, but are there things Brian does better than me? Yeah, there a lot of things (laughs).

BK: I think, in filmmaking, no rule can be steadfast because it is such an incredibly improvisational process. But when you are on set, it?s probably the best to have one voice coming out, and one person speaking to the cast and crew. So, in general, Lee and I settle on a single message for the actors, for the cinematographer, and so on ? we collaborate on everything and then go separately on delivering these messages in our own ways.

LS: Brian has a lot of experience as an actor? so he is really good with them and really understands what the actors are going through. On the other hand, I enjoy getting into the technical aspects more? whether its the design aspects, the cinematography and things like that. So there is no steadfast rule, but these are the kind of things we gravitate towards, based on our skill set and personalities.

You guys were writers for quite long, before you decided to take up direction. How did your strengths as a writer help you during direction?

BK: I think they are two different beasts but they definitely are connected. When you are a director, it is a wonderful tool in your toolbox if you are a writer as well, you know? especially when you are dealing with budgetary constraints. To be able to write yourself out of certain situations, is a wonderful skill to have.

LS: I think, as a writer you have a certain degree of luxury of sitting and thinking about things. For example, if a problem comes up that you don?t know how to deal with, you just come back to it later. But when you are directing a film, especially a low budget film, where you don?t have as much time and money, you really don?t have that luxury. If a problem comes up, you have to come to an agreement and make a decision and go with that. And that?s kind of the thrill of it too, you know. That?s really exciting.

For a film shot in $ 6 million and in 25 days, how did you guys even manage to get such a star-studded cast?

LS:
Well, no one told us that we couldn?t (chuckles)! And that?s what it was. Bradley?s our childhood friend, he liked the script and agreed to do it. And then, an executive producer on the film had worked with Jeremy irons before. She passed the script to Jeremy and when he got interested and came on board, we suddenly had two huge actors of each of their generations in an independent film! That made the movie interesting to people, and all of a sudden, Dennis Quaid wanted to come in, and then we got Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde and wonderful character actors like John Hannah and JK Simmons to come in too. So we got really fortunate ? once it started happening, people just wanted to come in and be a part of it!

Bradley Cooper is both the lead actor and executive producer of the film. Isn?t that a tricky situation to be in?

BK: No, not at all. You?ll see that a lot, but in our case, it was really nice to have an actor who wanted to help your project. When you are making an independent movie, a huge portion of it is just trying to get it off the ground and getting actors to read it, especially if it?s your first film. So to have an executive producer who is also an actor in the movie and wants to help get it made was very fortunate.

LS: And you know, we?ve known each other for such a long time that there was a lot of trust between us. The foundation was collaboration and after that, things were only really good.

You?ve got two projects lined up ? Break My Heart 100 Times and Johnny Depp?s Rex Mundi. Tell us about them, and also about your dream project, if you have one.

BK: Break My Heart is a young adult novel that?s got a wonderful story. It?s an emotional thriller and it?s got a lot of scope to it and we are rewriting to direct it. The Johnny Depp movie is something we are working on as writers. It?s an incredibly exciting epic piece set in alternate history, in Paris in the 1940s.

LS: It?s sort of like Raiders of the Lost Arc, it?s that kind of a fun adventure. And you know, for Brian and I, we always really enjoyed the idea of telling epic stories. So we are writing this one, but at some point of time, we?d like to direct such a movie too.

BK: Yeah, I would love to make an Indian Jones kind of a movie at some point of time. It meant so much to me as a kid but I don?t think we have the knowledge to pull that off yet.

Nikhil Taneja is be doing a series of interviews with directors whose features at the 2012 Mumbai Film Festival. Coming up next a conversation with Brazilian director, Luciano Moura, on his film Father?s Chair.

Source: http://www.firstpost.com/living/mumbai-film-festival-in-conversation-with-writers-of-tron-legacy-on-their-directing-debut-497670.html

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Buying or Selling Real-estate ? Recommendations on Real Estate ...

Posted on Saturday, October 20th, 2012

I have placed a real house license along with been an entire time broker in the express of Il for many years now and I adore what I accomplish. Yes, during this straight down market, My partner and i still have fun. People nevertheless need areas to live. Using the market operate is although, there are lots more rental along with rent to obtain properties when compared with there were some time ago. And that is not likely to change any time soon. The market will be ripe for anybody wanting to spend money on real estate with what will turn out be the most lucrative time to purchase in a very, number of years. But there are things to watch out for, whether you?re buyer as well as seller, as well as want to be an investor Wood Ranch real estate .

To the Consumer or Vendor ?

Warning Emptor, let the caution. There?s a valid reason for that phrase, there?s a lot of truth in it. A high level buyer as well as seller, you need to be very careful when approached through someone stating they are an investor. They do not have your best interest at heart, regardless of what they say. These are looking to generate profits on the acquiring and or marketing or renting of residence. They are not a representative and reply to no regulatory agency Agoura Hills real estate . They are not your Broker and do not must pay back you just about any obligation other than to recognition the contract they will enter into along with you, which may as well as may not be a good deal for you. Confident, if they?re engaging in licensed property activities with out a license, they are often subject to charges. But that wont stop you from obtaining screwed. Therefore beware. A strategy to adhere get someone to handle your case, either a real estate agent or lawyer, or equally. You may as well as may not, lawfully, have to have a property attorney in your state. In my express, Illinois, it can be optional for buyers as well as sellers to possess one. But additionally, in Il, real estate brokers cannot act as legal counsel, only as a possible agent. So it is recommended that you offer an attorney, though it?s not necessary.

To the Entrepreneur ?

Periodically, I run across individuals who declare they want to purchase ?wholesale?. They illustrate a process exactly where they make a deal to purchase the peace of property. And then once underneath contract, they will procure a good ?investor buyer? for their acquire contract. They generate their money purchase charging their particular buyer the finders price.

There are a few things a would be investor ought to be wary of. Each and every state offers licensing laws, and certain things require a professional license. Like a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, an actual estate dealer are all fine examples of this specific.

Section 1-10 with the Illinois Real Estate License Take action of Year 2000 defines numerous called licensed activities for the broker. Below are a few excerpts from Section 1-10:

?Broker? means someone, partnership, LLC, firm, or signed up LLP who, whether or not in person as well as through just about any media as well as technology, for compensation, as well as with the purpose of acquiring compensation, sometimes directly as well as indirectly:

Sells, exchanges, purchases, rents as well as leases property.

Offers to sell, exchange, acquire, rent as well as lease property.

Negotiates, gives, attempts, as well as agrees to negotiate the selling, exchange, acquire, rental as well as leasing of real estate.

Helps or guides in acquiring or mentioning of prospects or prospective customers, intended to resulted in sale, exchange, lease as well as rental of real estate.

Currently, I?m not a lawyer nor does I enjoy one on television, or does I live in a Holiday Motel Express last night. But when an investor is looking for the buyer with the contract they have, they may be cloths the law really dangerous method. A slip of the tongue, say the wrong word, and it could be very costly for them.

Men and women wanting to make investments should do this. They should buy it and carry it as accommodations property, as well as buy it, fix it up, and sell the idea. I would not advise buy/fix/sell though with the current economic market unless of course you?re having the property unbelievably cheap. Reselling is hard, unless of course you?re nicely below market value. To be an investor, you don?t have to offer an agent. It is legal for anyone to signify themselves in a transaction with out a license. They only can?t signify someone else without. For those individuals that wanting to ?wholesale? ? sell property contracts, I propose checking using your state regulatory agency along with finding out how close you are to violating laws. And you will want to consider having the appropriate license.

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