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“A sparkling resume does not always equal a sparkling personality. And the face-to-face interviews needed to accurately judge prospective hires can consume a lot of time and money,” the article said. Read it here.

The chief executive officer of a Fort Washington PA-based video conferencing firm told the GlobeStreet reporter that “recent technological advances” in video streaming “have greatly improved its quality and lowered the expense.” The spread of web cams and in-phone cameras has also made the interview by video method convenient for hopeful applicants, he added.

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Doherty and Boston area Instagram marketing coach Sue B. Zimmerman collaborated last month (June 2, 2014) on an article about why and how real estate agents should use Instagram – the popular photo-sharing social media site – to establish themselves as “go-to experts” in almost any target market. They particularly emphasize creating a “hashtag strategy” of keywords for prospects and clients to follow.

The pair also finds value in geotagging and referring to other influential leaders as ways to enhance social media reach.

Find Zimmerman’s blog article, and Doherty’s embedded video, here.

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Agents rarely need to spend money to entice these clients back to be represented by them in the future, but they do need to create an environment that encourages clients to make referrals. RIS Media today (May 20, 2014) published an article authored by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council, titled “Ten Rules of Referrals,” that covers the topic well. Read it here:

“Ten Rules of Referrals”

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MOORESTOWN NJ – What goes through the mind of a landscape designer as he or she surveys a property for a prospective client?

Dianne Walker, owner of and landscape designer for Colorstone Gardens LLC in Moorestown, says her technique is to “paint with plants.” With the land as her canvas, she told the Burlington County (NJ) Times newspaper, she creates outdoor environments that reflect what she hears people tell her during client interviews. She tries to tie their desires in to the surrounding property’s features or elements, she said.

A video (above) in which Walker was in interview subject herself and explained her process, was posted Thursday (Aug. 29, 2013) by The Times on the YouTube channel of Calkins Media.

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First-time awards were achieved for 700 and 755 Business Center Dr., Horsham PA. Re-certifications were awarded to 2000 Lennox Dr., Lawrenceville NJ; 200, 300 and 400 Berwyn Park, all in Berwyn PA; 101 W. Elm St., Conshohocken PA); One, Two and Three Logan Square, Philadelphia PA); and 401 Plymouth Rd., Plymouth Meeting PA. Other buildings owned by Brandywine in Maryland and Virginia also were awarded.

“We are excited to exceed our 2012 goal of having over 80 Energy Star-rated buildings in the portfolio,” stated George Johnstone, the company’s senior vice president of operations.

Related (to energy use reduction):

• LED Bulbs Easy Way To Save Energy And Money
• Energy Star Awards, Recertifications Presented To Brandywine
• Area Commercial Developer Wins Energy Use Award
• Next At Google: Helping Consumers Read Their Electric Meter

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In his forecast for the coming year, Liberty CEO Bill Hankowsky said:

“In developing guidance for 2013, we have assumed that the economic recovery will continue to slowly improve. We expect occupancy to increase for both our office and industrial portfolios. We believe that market rents have bottomed in both office and industrial, but we are still experiencing roll-downs in rents in our office portfolio as we release space previously leased at height-of-the-market rates. At this point, acquisition opportunities are scarce and we expect our external growth to be primarily through development. We should continue to benefit from increased development opportunities as new space is required to satisfy pent-up demand and changes in how companies are doing business.”

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Properties in the trust include acute care hospitals, behavioral health care facilities, rehabilitation hospitals, sub-acute care facilities, surgery centers, childcare centers and medical office buildings.

The trust, headquartered at 367 S. Gulph Rd., has 53 investments in 15 states.

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The drilling fee is based on a sliding scale that depends primarily on the market price of natural gas and the rate of inflation, according to a story published Monday (Feb. 6, 2012) in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. Minority Democrats, who would prefer a tax on gas extraction rather than collecting a flat fee, estimated fees would range from a low of $240,000 per well to a maximum of $355,000, to be collected over a 15-year period.

It’s taken months of wrangling for the parties involved to reach the compromise on what is being called a “local impact fee,” and which could be voted on as early as this week, The Inquirer said. One of the major sticking points in the talks has been how – and by whom – money raised by the fee would be distributed.

The agreement would allow counties where drilling occurs to decide whether to impose a fee. If a county declines to impose a fee, half its municipalities would have the option to force it to do so.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission would collect and distribute the fee, according to the summary of the agreement. Sixty percent of the money would go to areas directly affected by drilling for things such as infrastructure and public-safety costs. The other 40 percent would go to statewide projects, many of them environmental, including repairs to green ways and recreational trails, protection of open space, and other beautification projects.

• Read more about the fee in an story by reporter Angela Couloumbis, titled “Tentative deal on Pennsylvania shale-gas fee” and published Monday in The Inquirer, here.

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Inman, covering an address by Charles Achilles, chief legislative and research officer for the Institute of Real Estate Management during the National Association of Realtors’ mid-year conference, said he predicted that a dizzying array of issues which face commercial property investors also will have an impact on residential housing markets.

Because more municipal governments must deal with budget deficits, Achilles said, tax increases may be inevitable for commercial brokers and their clients. That would only reduce the potential for economic growth, he noted.

• Read a story by reporter Matt Carter, titled “Real estate downturn’s impacts to linger for years” and published Monday (May 16, 2011) by the Inman News Service, here.

Related (to multi-family dwellings):

• Commercial Investors Face Years Of Trouble, Expert Claims
• Market’s Now Looking Better For Multi-Family Housing Units
• Pennsylvania Home Builders Applaud Sprinkler Repeal Vote

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