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Calkain Companies Brokers $8.2MM DC-Area NNN Lease Investment Sale

No comments December 2nd, 2009

Reston, VA, Calkain Companies’, a national real estate investment brokerage firm, has procured the sale of two triple net (NNN) lease investment properties in Fulton, MD. The SunTrust Bank and M&T Bank Ground Leases in Maple Lawn (Fulton), MD were sold to private investors seeking passive and long-term investments. Closing price of the sale was $8.2MM.

Rick Fernandez, Assistant Vice President and Jeff Bogart, Tax Strategy Specialist, both of Calkain Realty Advisors, the private market division of Calkain Companies, led the marketing and sale of the transactions. Fernandez commented, “The strong market demographics, high profile locations and financial strength of the tenants provided sound and stable investment opportunities for the investors.” The properties commanded a premium price due to the high credit worthiness of the tenants and the above average rent increases during the terms of the lease. Fernandez and Bogart generated multiple offers for the asset and ultimately completed the sale in an obviously challenging market. Jonathan Hipp, President & CEO of Calkain Companies continued, “Calkain proved that quality real estate is highly desirable, no matter what market cycle is occurring.” Bogart commented,” The availability of favorable financing for this transaction and in this market cycle is testament to the strength and stability of the Washington, DC metro market.”

Maple Lawn is an upscale mixed use development outside of the Nation’s Capitol that provides living, working and shopping conveniences. With over 1,340 homes planned for the development, the long term benefits of the investments are greatly achieved.

The transaction is recorded in the public record.

Calkain Companies is a privately held, national real estate brokerage and advisory firm that specializes in single and multi-tenant retail, industrial, and office net leased transactions. Calkain has offices in Reston, VA (Washington, DC), Tampa, FL, and McHenry, MD.

Doorsteps Loans- Enjoy Instant Cash to Your Door

No comments December 2nd, 2009

Offering instant cash to your door, doorsteps loans are introduced in the UK finance market to support the fixed salary people. This loan is a key to your financial crisis when an urgent need to funds arrives at your door without any prior notification.

Many of the online finance companies are providing funds at your home that’s too is without hassle and no paper work. Door step cash loans are short term loans to cover your short term monetary crisis. All working people can trust on these loans without any hesitation.

Advantages of Doorsteps Loans:* Easy financial help: Doorstep loans are easy loans, you can apply for these loans without any problems and wastage of time. Quick approval is associated with this loan facility. It takes very less time in approval. Within hours, the money of the applicant will be in his hand. * No credit check: Credit check is not required in these loans. Therefore, hopeful with bad credit history or defaults can easily gain desired funds. The loan provider only considers the repayment ability of the applicant. * No security required: No collateral is required to place against doorstep loans. These loans are also known as risk free loans. Due to lack of security, borrower has no risk of his valuable possessions. * If you are above eighteen years old UK resident and earning regular salary, then you can easily apply for these loans. * You can avail funds at low interest rates and easy repayment duration, if you do an online research.

Disadvantages of Doorsteps Loans:* For fixed salaried people sometimes repayment becomes headache because it is hard for them to repay the entire amount from next salary. The non payment brings more interest fees which result in budget crisis. * Another disadvantage of this doorstep loans is there are many fault lenders are associated with online banking. Borrower should be extreme caution about the trustworthiness of the lender. Sometimes, this great financial help becomes burdensome when you deal with a fraud loan provider.

How Internet Reputation Management Can Save You or Your Company From a Disaster

No comments December 2nd, 2009

Internet Reputation Management is the practice of manipulating or reshaping one’s search results to reflect a more positive, or accurate, depiction of a particular person or company. This industry got started in 2006, originally to defend children from the dangers of social networking sites. However, it has evolved into something more than that. The Internet, and search engines particularly, has become more important as a source for information, whether that is an impression of a celebrity or a review of a product. Think about itwhen you are going to try a new restaurant, go see a movie, look up a celebrity, buy a new product, you look to the Internet, and especially search engines, for information. Search engines allow for the aggregation of a great deal of information, most of which is user-generated, rather than produced by any professional journalist. Using a search engine to find new information about a subject has become so common, in fact, that “Google” has become a verb. You’ve heard it before, “‘I don’t know anything about H.L. Mencken.’ ‘Well Google him!’” User-generated journalism, often in the form of blogging, is incredibly unpredictable, though, and notoriously unreliable. Negative search results are quite common, and although they are sometimes perfectly understandableoften they are ridiculous or simply false. Input “Octomom” or “David Vitter” and you will see a plethora of negative comments which any person would say they may or may not deserve. However, I think we can all agree that both Nadya Suleman (Octomom) and David Vitter have a right to publicize themselves in a positive light, too, rather than letting their reputations be held hostage to the whims of angry bloggers and forum trolls. The only effective way to fight back against this anonymous barrage of negativity in their search results is to hire an Internet Reputation Management professional. They will conduct a campaign, on a business or individual’s behalf, that will help them to publicize themselves more positively. Although they cannot remove the offending search results, they can push them down in rankonto the second, third, or fourth pagewhere hardly anyone will see them. This is the essence of Internet Reputation Management, the suppression of links through the elevation of positive publicity.