Month: June 2017
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Zoo (Volkerschau) Trailer – The Stare
Once upon a time, a girl asked me to show her my extra bone at a basketball camp in Philadelphia. Once upon a time, as the only black girl on the track team, my teammates wondered why didn’t I wash my hair everyday? They of course, wanted to feel it. Once upon a time, a…
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5 Cities Working to Preserve Affordable Housing
With rising housing costs, renters across the United States are struggling to find affordable housing. Millennials—who comprise half of all renters—have to balance appreciating rents with high student loan debt and low wages. The availability of affordable housing is paramount, as it allows Americans to save money, provide stability for their families and create better…
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Pendo Executive Alicia Branstetter Receives NAWRB’s Roaring Thirty Award
Original post LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo., June 19, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Pendo, a nationwide appraisal management company, announced that Alicia Branstetter, the company’s vice president of marketing, has received the NAWRB (National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses) Roaring Thirty Award.
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Desirée Patno, NAWRB CEO & President, Nominated for the LA Business Journal’s 2017 Women’s Summit Awards!
NAWRB is excited to announce that Desirée Patno, our CEO & President, is an award nominee for the 25th Annual 2017 Women’s Summit hosted by the Los Angeles Business Journal!
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Happy Father’s Day 2017!
NAWRB would like to wish a happy Father’s Day to all the dads this Sunday, June 18, 2017. The idea for Father’s Day started in 1909 with Sonora Dodd, who wanted to honor her father, a widowed Civil War veteran. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson issued a presidential proclamation designating the third Sunday in June…
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Attracting Millennials into the Housing Ecosystem
Millennials have this enigmatic aura around them. Older generations scratch their heads trying to make sense of them as if they are extraterrestrials with green-and-white colored coffee cups in one hand and smartphones in the other, who bond by laughing together over memes on Instagram. Millennials comprise individuals between 18 to 34 years old, and,…
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How to Get Your Economic Groove On, Part 2
While the Internet offers a plethora of primary data sources that can be tapped to gain a better understanding of economics and the housing market, along with them come even more sites offering interpretations of those primary data sources. While some of these sites may seem to serve an educational purpose, and in fact be…
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Leadership Lessons on Women in the Real Estate Businesses
Women influence much of the business world today, and this is increasingly true when it comes to the business of real estate. In fact, the 2016 NAR Member Profile reveals that 62 percent of all REALTORS® are women. In my role as president of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, I have had the…
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NWBC Entrepreneurial Ecosystems & Their Service of Women Entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs are on the rise, and they are leaving their footprint on the nation’s economy. In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an estimated 9.9 million women-owned firms, 35.8 percent of all U.S. firms classifiable by gender, and the total estimated receipts from those firms was $1.4 trillion. Nevertheless, women-owned businesses are still an…
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Is the Mortgage Industry Painting with too Broad a Brush?
Becoming a homeowner helps safeguard a person’s professional achievements and can pull them out of poverty. However, current mortgage lending trends show that a significant portion of Americans are being all but excluded from homeownership by stringent credit-assessing practices leading to mortgage rejections. The Great Recession, which saw nearly 8 million American homes fall into…