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How to Start a Third-Party Verification Business

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Third-party verification companies offer an important service to employers. Verification companies complete extensive background checks on employment candidates to make sure that each candidate fits the company’s requirements for the position. The more sensitive the ...

How to Set Up a Real Estate Company in Dubai

By Kristine Lorette · 14 years ago

The emirate of Dubai is located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), perched on the western corner of the Arabian peninsula and set right along the Persian Gulf. Since the late 1990s and the early ...

How to Sell Getaways With a Timeshare

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Owning a timeshare can provide an excellent vacation option, as well as a strong investment opportunity. Timeshare owners purchase the right to visit specified resorts during certain weeks of the year. In the event that ...

How to Buy Debt Leads

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Buying debt leads represents a growing business opportunity. The types of debt leads that you can purchase include debt settlement and mortgage debt, as well as credit card debt and debt consolidation. Companies that specialize ...

How to Become a Credit Broker

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Credit brokers work as the middle-men between credit applicants and banks or other lenders. Credit brokers do not supply the credit themselves, but they play an important role in steering customers toward the right place ...

Classical Theories of Leadership

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Some psychology experts believe that leaders are born, while others believe leadership is a skill that someone can learn. The study of the area of leadership concludes that there are four basic and classical theories ...

How to Look Up a Tax Lien

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

According to Experian, one of the credit reporting agencies, a tax lien is a claim by a taxing authority on an asset owned by someone who owes back taxes. For a business, a tax lien ...

Debt Consolidation Tips

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Debt consolidation consists of rolling all of your debt into one loan or line of credit. This consolidation allows you to make one monthly payment at one fixed interest rate. Usually the interest rate on ...

Employment Credit Checks

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Most people know that when they apply for a loan or credit, the lender or creditor is going to check their credit. What may not be common knowledge is that some employers also run a ...

Mortgage Elimination Scams to Avoid

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

For those struggling to make mortgage payments, there are a variety of assistance and counseling options from the government and from private organizations. However, homeowners should beware of any company promising "mortgage elimination." The U.S. ...

How to Start a Wedding Hall

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

A wedding reception hall can be a fun and lucrative business venture when you carry out the proper amount of planning to start and operate it. Putting some thought into how you’ll run the venue ...

Poor Credit? How to Refinance Your Home Anyway

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Refinancing your home can lessen the burden of high mortgage payments, release cash for valuable home improvement projects, or be used to alleviate debt. For the borrower with poor credit, a simple refinance can be ...

Wedding Venues or Honeymoon Accomodations: The Best Hotel Chains

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

For planning a wedding ceremony or reception or choosing a honeymoon destination, a chain hotel can be an excellent option. Granted, a chain might not offer quite the same local touch of a small boutique ...

California Home Warranty Policies

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Home sellers or their real estate agents acquire home warranties to protect themselves against lawsuits if something in the house breaks within the first year. The Home Warranty Association of California (HWAC) is made up ...

How to Change the Deed or Title to Your Home

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

How to Change the Deed or Title to Your Home When you buy or receive a home as a gift, the deed to the home is the written proof of ownership of the home. It ...

Why Going Green is So Important

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

At one time, going green seemed like something a little out of the ordinary: the neighbor who jumped on his exercise bike every time he wanted a smoothie, or the Hollywood starlet "caught" recycling by ...

Employers: Find Out How You Can Contribute Tax Free Savings to Employees

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

With all of the various tax laws in place, untaxed savings accounts might seem too complicated to use. There are, however, several savings account options that can serve a two-fold purpose: providing tax free income ...

Rural Property Defined by the Beholder

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Defining rural property is a term relative to the person or organization you’re asking to define it. The United States Census, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of Management and Budget ...

Federal Grants for Mortgage Borrowers in Default

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

Especially in a turbulent housing market, where default and foreclosure are rather commonplace, some borrowers seek assistance. For mortgage borrowers that are facing default on their mortgage or foreclosure on their home, there are some ...

How to Convert a 401(k) into a Roth IRA

By Kristie Lorette · 14 years ago

The 401(k) is one of the most popular employee retirement plans offered by employers across the county. 401(k) plans allow pre-tax contributions to be made and the growth in the account grows at a tax-deferred ...