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10 Ways to Choose the Right Title Company

When your clients are buying or selling a home, there are several steps along the way—and choosing a title company is one of the most important. The title and closing process remains bewildering to many clients, with many wondering why they need a title company, who to hire, how to hire, and how much it will cost them.

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Proptech Spotlight: ShowingTime

ShowingTime is the leading scheduling software and market stats provider for home showings in the residential real estate industry. The platform offers users automated show management of showings, report generation, and buyer lead generation for multiple listing services (MLS), associations, offices, and agents.

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Joint Venture Marketing

In joint venture marketing, companies pool their marketing resources to maximize brand awareness and sales revenue. However, while integrating marketing forces has many benefits, there are a number of factors to consider before entering a joint venture agreement.

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Corporations vs. Joint Ventures

A corporation is a legal entity in which shareholders operate as a single business entity. Establishing a corporation is a useful strategy for business growth and development. Corporations are legally comparable to an individual business operation and treated with the same rights and responsibilities.

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Forming a Successful Joint Venture

Companies often form joint ventures with one another for their mutual benefit. These business partnerships boost available capital for investment, making each group financially stronger. Further, joint ventures also eliminate the uncertainty inherent in all business ventures by sharing risks across all participants...

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Taxes & Joint Venture Agreements

A joint venture (JV) is created when two companies work together on a single project and is formed when a joint venture agreement is signed, contractually detailing the duties and rights of each party. A JV agreement specifies every aspect of a joint venture...

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Thinking of Investing in a Vacation Home? Florida Is the Place to Go!

Featured Author: Jim McKinley If you love going to the beach, chances are you’ve said something to this effect at one point or another: “Ah, it would be nice to have a vacation home here.” And when you invest in a property in the right place, it really can be nice. Not only can it provide you with a sun-soaked getaway, but it can also turn out to be a lucrative asset if you use it as a vacation rental. 

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Proptech Spotlight: Inspectify

The process of transitioning from a homebuyer to a homeowner is tedious and requires many moving parts. Finding, hiring, and scheduling inspectors while getting transparent pricing outdated, inconvenient, inefficient, and typically don’t provide a clear report of what was discovered.

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The Path to Going Public: Compass Files it's S-1

Compass just filed its S-1 to go public. What was the most interesting part of this filing? The fact that they have made such a big investment in ancillary title services, including their acquisition of tech-driven title company Modus and another D.C.-based title company, where they will likely deploy their newly acquired technology there as well. 

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