Salt Lake City in Utah is emerging as a one of the top locations in America for telecommuting according to its local paper. The practice has been technically possible for years but has met entrenched resistance in many companies, fearful of reduced productivity by staff left to their own devices at the end of a web cam.A combination of the need to cut costs and improvements in technology may be behind the growth of the phenomenon stateside.If it really takes hold in a big way, we can be sure it will do so over here in a year or two.Any thoughts from your own experience?
The death this week of global investor and philanthropist John Templeton provides an opportunity to quote one of his maxims and apply it to the world of property investment. Although he was not talking about real estate as such, there remains wisdom in his perspective when applied to the issue of when to buy and when to sell property:
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.... I have put these philosophies into a simple statement: help people. When people are desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When people are enthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell.
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