Let the Real Estate Buyer Prepare: Internet Tools to Assist in Your Search for a Real Estate Agent
Real Estate transactions evoke the most sense of trepidation amongst consumers. After all, these are the transactions where the largest amounts of money exchange hands. Who is there to guide you through the process? Most of us turn to a seasoned real estate agent to help.
With an average commission of 5% coupled with the fact that you are often 'married' to an agent for some period, it's essential to check their reputation before sign the nuptials. Word of mouth recommendations are one way to put your mind to ease, but failing that, the Internet, until recently, didn't have much to offer.
The Internet featured hundreds of referral sites yet all of them lack prominent ratings provided by the actual consumers that have interacted with them. Many referral sites feature pages of sponsored ads which cloud any useful data. Others offer extensive information about a given agent, such as, the agent's pets and number of children the agent has. While that's nice to know, it's useless in answering four important questions about your perspective agent:
1) Integrity: Was the agent honest and loyal to past customers' interests?2) Quality of the Deal: Did the agent strike a good deal for his/her past customers?3) Recommendation: Would past customers recommend this agent to their friends?4) Availability: Did the agent expeditiously respond to past customers' requests?
RankYourAgent.com seeks to level the field in real estate by providing answers to these crucial questions about perspective agents. RankYourAgent.com (http://www.rankyouragent.com) collects the answers to these questions provided by web users. These statistics are made available free of charge to anyone who'd like to view a real estate agents ranking.
RankYourAgent.com derives its income from unobtrusive Google(tm) Adsense(tm) ads. A quick visit to RankYourAgent.com will allow the user to rank an agent that isn't already ranked, or view agents by name or region.
Visit http://www.rankyouragent.com today and see if your agent is listed. At the end of your real estate transaction, don't forget to come back and provide rankings so that others can benefit from your experiences.
Reevaluating the Exodus: A Closer Look at the Numbers
In this exploration of biblical numerology, we delve into the often-cited figure of 600,000 Israelite men departing Egypt, a number that suggests a total population of around three million when including women and children. This analysis not only challenges the feasibility of such numbers from historical and logistical perspectives but also examines alternative interpretations that align more closely with archaeological findings and contemporary understandings of ancient texts.
Intelligent Design: The Debate on Its Place in Science Education
Exploring the contentious debate surrounding the inclusion of Intelligent Design (ID) in science curricula, this article delves into why ID, a hypothesis positing that life is created by an intelligent entity, often identified as God, struggles to find a foothold in scientific classrooms. We examine the nature of scientific inquiry and why ID does not meet the criteria for inclusion in science education, despite its popularity in certain circles.
Kierkegaard, Don Giovanni, and the Messiah
“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or do not marry, you will regret both.”-- Soren Kierkegaard.Soren Kierkegaard was a tremendous fan of Don Giovanni (aka Don Juan). Kierkegaard pined in regret over his broken engagement with Regine Olsen. He feared that once she saw the rottenness and evil within him, that she would no longer be able to love him. Many of his earlier works were works dealing with faith and coming to grips with his decision not to marry her. Such a person would be interested in the character of Don Giovanni who slept with thousands of women in fear that no one woman would ever love him. Both Kierkegaard and Don Giovanni had a fundamental lack of faith: Not a lack of faith in God, but a lack of faith in humanity. We’ll soon see that the two are related however.
