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Mr. Speaker, throughout the month of March, francophones around the world are celebrating their language, culture and values. Canada is obviously very proud to be part of the Francophonie and to contribute to the dissemination of the French language and francophone culture and values.
Today, being a member of the Francophonie is not about recognizing the travels of Cartier or Samuel de Champlain; it is about getting involved with other countries in essential missions such as the consolidation of the rule of law, peace, gender equality, sustainable development and solidarity, beginning with the francophone community and extending to the entire international community. All members of the NDP from coast to coast, wish to participate in these great missions of the Francophonie, and will be especially vigilant in ensuring that the current government respects its commitments.
Speaking of commitments, we will also ensure that the Government of Canada's commitments with regard to defending and promoting official language minority communities, mostly francophone communities, are reflected in the budgets of the various departments.
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For the nearly 30,000 high school seniors who applied regular decision to Harvard's Class of 2018, the number of unread emails in their inboxes will inconspicuously jump by one Thursday afternoon. After three months of anticipation, applicants to Harvard will click on an email which contains either congratulations or apologies.
But while their peers are anxiously watching their inboxes, 992 students have already received the golden ticket of admission through Harvard's restrictive early action program. Those 992 students—the highest number admitted early in the last six early admissions cycles—represent about half of the approximately 2,000 students who will be admitted to the Class of 2018, based on analysis of admissions results from previous years.
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"The admissions process is really beginning at age 15 in a lot of instances, instead of age 17," Steven R. Goodman, an educational consultant and admissions strategist, said in an interview. "In light of this, students need to visit colleges early in order to be prepared earlier."
While early birds are catching many acceptances, college counselors and students alike view the climate of early acceptance programs with ambivalence. Some say the programs can give students a beneficial head start, but others say they merely increase pressures and force certain demographics out of the ivy-covered gates.
Prompted by the rationale that early acceptance policies tended to disadvantage students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, Harvard's Office of Admissions and Financial Aid eliminated the early action option for applications to the Class of 2012. The University of Virginia and Princeton University followed suit shortly thereafter and eliminated their early action programs.
At the time of the announcement in 2006, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 said the University would re-evaluate its admissions processes at the end of each admissions cycle and how they affected the demographics of the applicant pool.
In 2011, after a similar review, Harvard, along with the University of Virginia and Princeton, announced that the early action option would return for students applying to the Class of 2016.
"We looked carefully at trends in Harvard admissions these past years and saw that many highly talented students, including some of the best-prepared low-income and underrepresented minority students, were choosing programs with an early-action option, and therefore were missing out on the opportunity to consider Harvard," Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith said in a statement at the time.
This year, applicants to the Class of 2018 represented the third early action pool since its reinstatement in 2011. Though the number of early applicants was slightly fewer than last year, the number admitted rose by just over 100, from 885 to 992.
High school students and admissions officers, noticing that a large portion of college acceptances are delivered early, note that early admission and decision programs, both old and reinstated, create pressures to begin college searches earlier.
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Yields on Italian and Spanish bonds are dropping fast this morning, after a bond auction in Spain saw decent demand from investors.
Borrowing costs remained high at auction; for example, yields on two-year notes rose from 2.069 per cent last month to 4.706 per cent. However, the fact that primary market borrowing costs were below where yields in the secondary market–they started at over 5 per cent today–suggests that the bearish reaction to the Spanish bank bailout deal might be overblown.
We have argued in the past that yields on two-year bonds in Spain and Italy may prove the most important data points in Europe, since two-year borrowing costs take into account the effects of the European Central Bank's two liquidity-providing long-term refinancing operations. With Spain under fire from investors after its bank bailout, indicators of Spanish government following stress have become urgent. See our full reasoning here >
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While alleged fraud at Autonomy may have been a surprise to Hewlett-Packard, its auditors, its bankers and its executives, it wasn't to short-seller Jim Chanos.
Chanos told me this morning that in early 2011, months before the HP-Autonomy deal, Autonomy was his biggest European short. Chanos' firm even wrote a report on it in July of that year.
Too bad HP didn't read it.
Among the red flags the report pointed out – the following lifted directly from the report:
- Autonomy claims about the size of its e-Discovery business are questionable, and represent 40 percent of total market share, in an industry with more capable and better capitalized competitors, like Microsoft , EMC , and IBM .
- Autonomy's claims of 20 percent growth in revenue are inconsistent with competitors' reported figures. Both FTI Consulting and EMC Documentun are reporting much slower growth.
- Autonomy's customers are much less enthusiastic about the company's products than Autonomy itself.
- Level of financial disclosure at Autonomy is very poor, and does not reveal standard performance metrics of maintenance revenues, acquisition details, etc.
- Deferred revenue growth consistently underperforms recognized revenue growth. An acquisition follows every quarter where deferred revenue / recognized revenue dip below 70 percent.
- Cash generation has consistently underperformed profitability measures, with large working capital draw downs and benefits from lower cash taxes.
- Autonomy margin profile is suspiciously high for its size and consistent with extremely large software companies like Microsoft and Oracle .
- Autonomy capitalizes R&D costs, 14 percent of total in 2008, boosting EBIT margins by 2 percent.
- The last three acquisitions have helped to create a significant cookie jar of earnings to support the margin profile.
The report even questioned whether Autonomy's chief operating officer at the time, a former junior mergers and acquisitions attorney, was qualified for his role.
My take: Yet another example of the shorts knowing before anybody else.
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From technology integration to efficiency optimization at Wells Fargo
The head of Wells Fargo's technology integration team shares lessons the group has learned and what Wells Fargo and Wachovia are working on next.
In this podcast, Martin Davis, executive vice president and head of Wells Fargo & Co.'s technology integration office, explains why employees in the field are a critical piece of its customer conversion and integration process, and discusses the next major project the technology team will tackle as the Wells Fargo-Wachovia technology integration nears completion.
To learn more, read our previous interviews with Davis and Wayne Mekjian, executive vice president and CIO of information services at Wells Fargo: "Wells Fargo and Wachovia: The technology integration of two giants" and "A Wells Fargo roadmap to sidestep technology integration risks."
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SearchCIO.com: We spoke about six months ago about the progress of the Wells Fargo and Wachovia integration. At the time, you said your team was about 80% to 90% complete on the technology integration, and about 25% complete on the customer accounts. Where does that stand now, and how are you ensuring your team is tuned into those accounts' experiences during this integration?
Martin Davis: In the past six months we've made tremendous progress. Before, I was telling you that we had about 25% of customer accounts converted. We're closer to 80% of those accounts being converted now, with only a few states remaining to complete the entire integration.
Our technology is [now] probably closer to 90% complete. That's excluding the decommissioning work that will take place after all conversions have been done. The decommissioning work will be removing those legacy systems from either organization not selected as a go-forward system. So, right now we're in great shape. We've got Maryland, [the District of Columbia] and South Carolina coming up in the mid-September time frame; and that will only leave North Carolina in the October time frame, and we'll be complete.
Whenever these types of integration occur, you try to keep in tune with what's going on with customer accounts. Are customers tied into any kind of management system?
Davis: We've developed a fairly sophisticated customer selection facility that decides when a particular customer is going to be converted. That system has been allowing us to do our conversions over the last couple of years and to ensure smooth integration for our customers regardless of what state they are in. So, through the use of this customer analytics, we determine the appropriate time to convert a customer, and we'll continue to use that throughout the process.
You're doing such a large integration project. Could you explain where you started and what kind of methodology you used?
Davis: We started the integration back in 2009 when the consummation of the deal was announced. At that particular point in time, both organizations, Wachovia and Wells Fargo, had substantial experience integrating financial institutions into their organizations, but not of this size, scale and scope. So, what we did is put together a blended model of the two integration methodologies from each company.
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One of the first things we did was make sure everyone was on the same page, and so we created what we called a target operating model [TOM] for each line of the business. As the blended teams worked to come up with those models, it allowed the technology teams then to understand what technology to apply to the particular business strategy that was being laid out by these [TOMs]. Once that was done, we shared the TOMs across the entire enterprise so that one line of business would ensure what the other lines of business would do, and how they were going to perform their particular integration activities.
We continued to share that throughout the last couple of years to make sure that once we did the integration, everyone understood how things were working. Just to ensure that the entire enterprise had a big picture. Also, part of the methodology ensured that we had an integration leader from every one of the lines of business and support groups. These individuals came together on a biweekly basis, making sure that everyone understood the overall game plan, then we executed according to that plan.
You also developed what you call an air space analysis to manage technology integration change and manage day-to-day infrastructure changes. What is an "air space analysis" approach, and can you give me an example of how you used it?
Davis: We already had a very robust change management process, but this air space analysis makes sure that we understand any change that will be taking place within an event window, so we call that our air space. If you think about the fact that we're going to convert the entire state of North Carolina, we want to know what other technology changes or system changes are taking place in that window, and we call that our air space analysis report.
We have three or four different teams analyzing that data to make sure that with any particular change, we understand the potential impact it may have on our conversion window, or may have on our customers if that change were not to go in successfully. Through that analysis, we determine if we're going to move forward with that change, reschedule the change or cancel that change altogether.
Do you have a specific example in mind that you could share about how you used the air space analysis?
Davis: We were about to cut over on one of our lending platforms, let's say our mortgage systems, for example, and we were going to move from Wachovia's mortgage systems and customers over to the Wells Fargo mortgage systems.
We had to make sure that everyone across the organization … let us know about any type of problem immediately, regardless if it only affected one or two accounts.
We would want to make sure that we knew the 3,000 or 5,000 servers that the mortgage company may be running on; we would not want to be patching those servers at the same time we're going through that conversion process. That air space analysis report would have identified that we had plans to patch the server associated with [those] mortgage [systems], and we would delay that particular change.
What were the primary integration risks you encountered or were expecting to encounter, and how did you avoid them?
Davis: There are a number of integration risks that are out there, and some could be technology-related, some process-related and actually, some human capital-related. One of the first things we wanted to make sure we did was to retain the appropriate amount of IT talent from both organizations. So, we took a number of different steps to ensure we retained that talent.
From a technology perspective, the air space analysis is just one example of making sure we mitigated risks between collisions of one particular technology change having an impact on our conversion and events. Also, one of the things that we did is, we made sure we learned after each and every conversion and applied those lessons learned as we moved forward.
So, we very systematically laid out our conversion schedule from our smaller environments to our larger regions, and every time we did a conversion, we'd apply our lessons learned from one to the next. So, that was very beneficial for us as well, so when we did have customer impacts, we minimized those and made sure we wouldn't have that type of issue going into the next event.
Do you have a specific lesson learned?
Davis: One of the things we identified early on is that we may have had a problem or an issue that only impacted one or two accounts when we did some of the smaller environments, but then, when we did some of the larger environments, that same problem may have impacted hundreds of customers or thousands of customers, and we weren't necessarily getting the feedback from the field when it was occurring only to one or two customers.
So, one of the lessons learned was that we had to make sure that everyone across the organization -- especially our front-line tellers who work with our customers -- [knew that] if they had any type of problem, they had to let us know about that immediately, regardless if it only affected one or two accounts. Because when we applied that same code to thousands or millions of customers, we may have impacted hundreds or a thousand plus customers.
Now that you're moving into the final stages of the technology integration, what will be your team's and Wells Fargo's overall technology team's priority moving forward?
Davis: The priority will be to ensure that we don't lose this ability to execute horizontally across our organization as successfully as we've been able to do. To get an entire enterprise of 280,000 team members to move in unison and to execute flawlessly, the integration the way we've done thus far has been a tremendous feat.
So, one of the things we'll ensure is to make sure we keep this "muscle memory," if you will, and apply it to other projects that will require horizontal execution across the entire company. One of those [projects] being an efficiency effort that we have under way which is [called] our "project compass", which is set up to ensure we're operating more efficiently across the organization as we move forward.
The other will be the fact that over the last three years, the technology organization and all the other lines of businesses have a pent-up demand of changes they would want to make in our environment. So, we'll make sure we're focused on adding the features and functionalities to products that our customer may want as we move forward throughout the coming years.
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Seconds after a horrific collision which decapitated his friend, an Orillia man was hysterical and called his mother, a court heard Monday.
"I f—– up, I f—– up … I killed someone!" Tyson Lawlor told his mother. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"He was hysterical," said Crown Bhavna Bhangu, reading from an agreed statement of facts on the first day of Lawlor's trial.
Lawlor, 22, has pleaded not guilty to charges, including impaired driving causing the death of Ellen Silk, of Orillia.
Silk died after Lawlor's pickup truck veered off the road and crashed into a tree on a Warminster Sideroad, near Orillia, at around 3 a.m. Nov. 20, 2015.
"How do you know you killed someone?" asked Lawlor's anguished mother on the phone.
"I killed Ellen," was his desperate answer, and he pleaded with his mother to come, court heard.
"The cause of her death was decapitation," said Bhangu. She described how the young woman's body ended up lodged in the back seat behind the driver — her long blond hair and scalp fragments found on a tree.
It was a dark but clear night when Lawlor drove his black Silverado pickup along a stretch of the two-lane paved road, with Silk and two other friends in the vehicle. As he negotiated a sharp bend, he careened into a ditch and travelled 28 metres before crashing into a large tree. He managed to get the vehicle back on the road before realizing the devastating results, court heard.
Court photographs showed the damaged vehicle, with shattered windows, streaks of blood, headlights dangling and a bloodied tree limb stuck in the back of the cab. A case of Budweiser sat in one of the back seats, an open can of beer was found underneath the driver's seat.
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We're a little fashion-focused, duh, and so we spent all yesterday watching re-runs of E!'s coverage of the Golden Globes. For you, dear readers, we wanted more, so we searched for some of the evening's unseen shots and got you the goods on celebrity style secrets. All of the above images come from the night's big after parties (In Style, HBO, Weinstein); though reportedly the major fun went down at mega-agency CAA's fete, held at Tower Bar.
Cameras-we hear-were not allowed, sadly. Nonetheless, for gowns galore and heels details, read on!
First up? Camilla Belle at the In Style party wearing a Fendi dress and
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Jessica Parker who was wearing a silk jacquard dress and coat by L'Wren
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Over at the HBO party, Chloe Sevigny was stunning in YSL and some
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Rachel Zoe was a knockout in shimmering orange Halston (she's flanked by
Sims and Joy Bryant in a Fendi dress and Dolce & Gabbana shoes).
The friendly Desperate Housewives kicked up their heels at In Style as well,
with Eva Longoria in navy Emanuel Ungaro and H. Stern jewels, Felicity
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We are a new social purpose business that creates software to promote civic life and local communities. Our most recent project is http://www.walkscore.com. We would like the logo to be energizing, unexpected, savvy and polished. We are open to a variety of designs, color schemes, and typefaces. We would like the logo to fit with this website mockup: http://walkscore.com/fsm/
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Sixty percent of capital market institutions say cloud-based entrants will challenge traditional business models. How to compete then when saddled with costly in-house IT estates?
Moving to cloud-based models could help to improve cost ratios. Investment banks need to respond quickly or their cloud native competitors could become the new industry leaders.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solutions could reduce banks' costs, as well as simplify and standardize IT estates. The adoption rates are now accelerating across capital markets for both private and public solutions.
According to a recent Accenture survey, one-third of capital markets institutions expect to be using hybrid PaaS and IaaS solutions within three years. J.P.Morgan has stated clear directions for the use of public cloud solutions in a hybrid model with private solutions.1
Candidate application workloads for public cloud have extended beyond commodity back office services. Some banks are now exploring the viability of public cloud across their value chain.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) solutions could present opportunities for banks to create entirely new cloud-enabled operating models, moving traditionally in-house delivered technology and processes to as-a-Service models.
The ecosystem is currently dominated by industry consortia style utilities and traditional market infrastructure. Horizontal business processes, e.g. know-your-customer, were some of the first to be offered. These are now being followed by vertical business process offerings, e.g. post-trade operations. As fintech providers continue to collaborate, and increasingly compete with banks, the range of such SaaS and BPaaS solutions is poised to grow.
Capital market companies and service providers still need to work to define how financial accountability and liability should be assigned in the event of service issues or security breaches.
With the emergence of fintech and regtech providers, an increasingly collaborative stance is starting to arise between financial institutions, which is gradually changing as well the posture of regulators; they now see cloud as a help to re-thinking the process of regulation and compliance.2
External, public cloud will bring an increased need to balance the demands for speed, agility, and autonomy with security requirements, resulting in a renewed focus on encryption and obfuscation.
including a portfolio assessment of the processes, applications and data for transition to a BPaaS/SaaS solution. Define the hybrid PaaS/IaaS strategies for all remaining in-house solutions.
Decide on private platform and hyper-scale cloud partners for your cloud ecosystem. Establish appropriate hybrid cloud brokerage/orchestration.
by migrating strategic proprietary apps from legacy architectures to PaaS containers. Redeploy IT solutions to public IaaS and PaaS services as they mature.
addressing the organizational, architectural, governance and business engagement needs that might arise when introducing as-a-Service models alongside traditional, in house and bespoke delivery methods.
They could recognize that the current era of capital market companies attempting to independently build and operate their complete, own information supply chain is likely to be over. Banks could still compete by creating differentiating value with proprietary products, processes, algorithms and data.
However, those who succeed and flourish could be those companies that rapidly adopt their operating models and IT systems with a pragmatic, value-driven "Everything-as-a-Service" orientation.


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Jen Eskridge shows you how to recycle decomissioned uniforms and blend in some cheerful, contemporary fabrics to create useful family treasures with one-of-a-kind style. (See Jen make a zippered welt pocket to use for a variety of projects in her season 3episode "Welt of Knowledge.")
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Piero Bonaguri graduated "cum laude" at the Parma Conservatory. "Diploma di Merito" at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, he also studied with Enrico Tagliavini, Alirio Díaz, Oscar Ghiglia and Andrès Segovia, who wrote about him: "He will soon be a famous name among the best guitarists of our time".His performing career takes him to more than fifty countries in all five continents, working with prestigious Institutes and Festivals.He has premiered, recorded and edited many pieces for guitar written for him (almost 400 new compositions have been dedicated to him by well-known composers such as Cappelli, Guarnieri, Ugoletti, Solbiati, Molino, Paccagnini, Benati, Carluccio, Anzaghi, Tagliamacco). He is general editor of a collection of contemporary guitar works published by Ut Orpheus. He teaches guitar at the Conservatory "G.B. Martini" in Bologna.www.bonaguri.com


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Exploring CSR Communication Research in the Fashion and Apparel Industry: A Quantitative and Qualitative Review of Existing Literature. CSR Communication Conference.(2015).
Public Diplomacy and Corporrate Communications: Interplay and INfluence on National Identity and Image.. International Studies Association.(2015).
Unfolding CSR Discourses in the Fashion Industry.. International Communication Association.(2015).
Why Relationship Management Matters: Impact of OPR and Crisis Response Strategies on Perceived Crisis Responsibility.. International PR Conference.(2015).
The Building Blocks of Country Reputation: How Corporate Communication Helps Brand Countries.. International Communication Association.(2014).
Comparative Public Diplomacy: Message Strategies of Countries in Transition. Public Relations Review. 40,(2014).
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Let the restless nights begin: Julia Pace Mitchell is a mom!
The former Young and the Restless actress and her husband Stephen L. Hightower welcomed their first child on Wednesday, May 22, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Born at 7:45 a.m. in Middletown, Ohio, son Stephen L. Hightower III weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz. and measured 21 inches.
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Struggling to find the best buy-to-let mortgage in Totton? speak to one of our buy to let mortgage advisers today
The term 'buy to let' generally refers to either the practice of buying a property to be let for profit or to the type of mortgages used to purchase a property for such letting. Many countries, both in the western world and in the developing nations, have seen a surge in the growth of the buy to let property market in the last 2 decades and this has fuelled a growth in amateur landlords and the but to let mortgage providers who are keen to encourage and profit from them in turn. In addition, this growth has generated a lot of commerce in other related sectors such as buy to let insurance.
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Many countries, both in the western world and in the developing nations, have seen a surge in the growth of the buy to let property market in Totton the last 2 decades and this has fuelled a growth in amateur landlords looking for quality mortgage advice, this is why mortgage brokers in Totton who specialise in Buy-to-let are so important and the but to let mortgage providers who are keen to encourage and profit from them in turn. In addition, this growth has generated a lot of commerce in other related sectors such as buy to let insurance.
Totton Buy to let mortgages have been available in the UK since the mid-nineties and they are specifically designed for investors to borrow money to purchase property in the private rental sector. The amount that a prospective but to let investor can borrow is generally determined by the rental valuation of the property. The annual income for a rented property has to cover a certain percentage of the mortgage repayments, the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) states that landlords should seek to be able to obtain gross rent returns equivalent to between 130 per cent and 150 per cent of the rental property's mortgage repayments, this takes into account the surplus rent to cover costs of property maintenance and slack periods when the property may be vacant of tenants.
Totton Buy To Let Mortgages.
Some buy to let mortgage lenders in Totton will lend you a maximum sum based on a multiple of your salary (usually a multiple of three) plus a percentage of the forecast rental income on the property. So if your annual salary is said 30,000 Franks and the forecast rental income is 10,000 Franks they will lend you 95,000 Franks. Other mortgages, in addition to factoring in your salary, will include any existing loan commitments you have, and then apply what is known as the 'deduction rule'. This rule relates to the annual mortgage payments worked out at a pre-set level of interest.
Buy to let mortgage interest rates are generally fairly close to residential mortgage rates but will generally be slightly higher and typically charge higher fees. This is due to the fact that buy to let loans are considered by the financial sector to represent a greater risk than residential owner-occupier mortgages, and they generally are.
The Situation in the UK About Buy To Lets
The buy to let market literally 'exploded' in the Totton around the beginning of the millennium with rising property prices and the increasing availability of buy to let funding fueling a surge in would-be investors trying to cash in on the trend of the market. One reason for their popularity is the tax advantages that are available to the UK buy to let investors. Rental income is treated just like a salary by the Inland Revenue, and is therefore often taxed at 22% or even 40%. However, landlords are allowed to deduct costs from the taxable portion of their rental income, and these costs can include the interest of the buy to let mortgage repayments as well as maintenance costs on the property. These tax incentives made the buy to let market very attractive for both professional investors and amateurs looking to make the most out of their savings.
Would-Be Buy-to-let Investors
The market peaked around 2007 and now the market is saturated in many areas across the country with too many properties available to tenants. While buy to let is generally not a good idea for people who do not possess some extra budget there are a lot of remortgage deals which will fund a deposit for a home. If you are worried about losing money during void periods many companies will provide insurance which can deliver as much as six months mortgage payments in the event of a property in Totton remaining unoccupied.
You may still be lucky, and find a hotspot but you need to do your homework and the figures correctly. Buy to let trends differ from town to town and literally from street to street. Good advice for potential investors is to visit the local letting agents who should be able to tell you who is renting what at the moment so you can define your target audience. It could be students, young professionals or families, for example. Look for areas that do have a shortage of properties and for indicators that people will move there, such as new business developments.
Buy to let mortgage deals are still rife and the rates are almost as competitive as with conventional deals. The mantra with your buy-to-let must be 'don't expect to get rich quickly'. You need to look long-term: an absolute minimum of five years – but probably nearer to ten years.
You maybe in full-time employment and don'thave any free time to manage your investment properties, or maybe your like me and youdon't feel like you have the knowledge or experience to manage your investment propertiesand the tenants.
Or maybe you would simply prefer to spend your time in doing other things.
In which case you will require the help of a letting agent, and in this video I willtalk through the different levels of service that letting agents provide and how I go aboutfinding the best one.
Hi, I'm Andy Walker from monoperty.
Com whereI blog online about my journey as a property investor and landlord, sharing what worksfor me and what doesn't, to help you start or expand your property portfolio.
In recent years there's been a number ofonline letting agents appear with some very attractive fees, however, I don't have experiencewith these, my experience is based on the traditional type high street letting agency,which is what i'm going to be talking about today.
If I do make the move to an onlinecompany one day, I will be sure to provide feedback to you when that day comes.
Ok, First of all, let me tell you about thetypes of services letting agents provide, there are 3 different types and each attractit's own level of fees: For a Tenant Find service the letting agentwill advertise your property online using popular portals like RightMove, Zoopla andOnTheMarket.
They will answer queries that they receive and conduct any viewings withprospective tenants.
They'll also carryout tenant referencing and credit checks.
Fees will vary, but to give you an idea, Iwas recently quoted £195 + VAT to have a property let on a tenant find basis only Next is the Let Only and this package includesall the services provided in the Tenant Find plus the issuing of the tenancy agreement,taking the deposit from the tenants, and then registering that deposit with a deposit protectionscheme, setting up any direct debits and submitting meter readings to the utility companies.
They may also offer to provide extra servicesthat will incur additional charges like creating a inventory, providing an Energy PerformanceCertificate and a Gas Safety Certificate.
It can be cheaper for you to arrange thesecertificates as letting agents typically charge a percentage for spending time in making thearrangements, so it depends on how much time you have to get those certificates in place.
You can expect to pay anywhere between theequivalent of 2-4 weeks rent for this service.
So it could be that your fist months rentis spent in getting tenants into the property.
And the last one is the Full Management Servicewhich is the most expensive but it's the one I use as it helps to keep my time free.
This includes all the services of the Let Only package plus regular inspections, dayto day management of the property and rent collection.
Now with this service it means if the tenantshave any questions or any issues, they will contact the letting agent instead of me.
Theletting agent fees will be a percentage of the rental income over the letting term andwill be dedicated from the rent that's received.
The fees typically range from 6 to 15 percentdepending on the type of property.
I did manage to negotiate a fee of 5.
5% for one of my propertieslast year, but I take on any arrangements and supervision of any repairs that may needdoing which is very rare.
So with this service the letting agent findsthe tenants, vets the tenants, takes the deposit, issues a tenancy agreement, secures the depositin a protection scheme, collects the monthly rent, pays the rent into my bank account lesstheir fees and handles any phone calls from the tenants.
Now when it comes to finding a letting agent,the easiest method is probably word of mouth.
If your lucky enough to know someone in thearea who is using a letting agent that they would recommend because they are happy withtheir services, then that's great, but I would also recommend doing your own research.
I approach at least 3, and the first thing I do is look online for other properties thatthey are marketing.
I look for good photo's and good descriptions.
The properties withthe best marketing will attract the quickest viewings.
Getting a prospective tenant toenquire and getting them through the door of the property is what you want to achieve,because hopefully the property will sell itself.
And obviously, the least amount of time theproperty is on the rental market, the better.
I also like to visit their offices to havea look and get a feel as to how they operate.
Property is very much a people business andif I have two or three agents that appear to be good at marketing and are good at conductingthemselves, then I will typical choose the agent who I resinate with most.
To help you and your letting agent, make sureyour property is in a good state of repair and that it's good to go because it willsave you and your letting agent time and most issues are easier to be fixed when the propertyis vacant anyway.
Having a letting agent can also help to makesure you are compliant as a landlord.
And the introduction of the Right To Rent Schemehere in the UK in February 2016, is a good example of that.
They should also check that the relevant safetycertificates are in place and my letting agents always contacts me and reminds me when thosecertificates are due for renewal.
That said, I also keep a log for myself so I know whenthey're due, because ultimately landlords are responsible for the safety of their tenants,and if things go wrong, it will be the landlord that's summoned to court and not the lettingagent.
Before I finish, there are two other pointsworth mentioning for UK landlords.
Since October 2014, all letting agents mustbelong to a redress scheme which provides a free service for resolving any disputesbetween the letting agents and their customers, whether that's landlords or tenants.
I willlist the 3 government approved redress schemes in the description box below, but rememberto ask your letting agent which scheme they belong to.
And for transparency, since 27 May 2015, lettingagents must display all their fees and charges for both landlords and tenants, on their websiteand in a prominent place within their offices.
And you should always check the associatedfees before entering into negotiations with a letting agent.
This is my last video of the 'Getting Started'series.
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Welcome to MFB-TV on Wednesday 14th January.
as is our first broadcast of the year let mewish you much prosperity and success in the year ahead we think you'll be an excitinginnovative and productive year for all aspects ofthe property market and especially the financing there of.
So let's start off first of all with our Complex Buy to Let index resultsfrom the last quarter of 2014 that is available on our website today.
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We include now a new lender Fleet Mortgages who have just launched in the marketperhaps better known as the old management team from CHL Mortgage's of yesteryear.
and we are one of six appointed distributors at outset.
remortgaging continues to outstrippurchase activity but actual transaction numbers have goneup in both sectors yields yet again have increased for thevanilla HMO and more complex property typesbut interestingly enough many of you seem too boring slightly less withaverage loan to values coming down across all sectors it doesn't mean you can't borrow moreis just a conscious decision you appear to be making it's a mixed bag for loan amounts acrossall the property types so do dip into the report that's available on the websitetoday now in product news today is the launchof the first 10-year fixed-rate in the buy to let space for some timecoming out to those industry stalwarts at the mortgage works is the headlinerate of 4.
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Judge Finds St. Louis, MO's Red Light Camera Ordinance Invalid, Orders Halt Of Ticket Enforcement
from the sure-to-be-followed-shortly-by-handwringing-over-'lost'-revenue dept
Another red light camera company is in trouble, this time in St. Louis, MO, where a judge has just invalidated the city's red light camera ordinance. American Traffic Solutions (whose legal issues we've detailed here previously) has just had its camera system kicked to the curb as a result of some questionable moves it made during a recent lawsuit.
A St. Louis judge issued an order Tuesday that invalidates the city's red-light camera ordinance.So what prompted Ohmer to shut down the system? Well, the tickets that were central to the case, which were over a year old at the point of the suit's filing, were dismissed almost immediately after the lawsuit was filed. Why the sudden show of largesse?
Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer wrote in the order that the city is prohibited from attempting to enforce the ordinance, sending violation notices, processing payments or sending collection letters relating to the tickets.
Those named in the suit — including the city, Mayor Francis Slay, Police Chief Sam Dotson and American Traffic Solutions Inc., which operates the cameras — had argued to dismiss it. Some of the defendants said the claims were moot because the tickets had been dismissed and that the petitioners lacked standing because they were not hurt by the ordinance.Ohmer didn't let this transparent attempt to dodge a legal battle go unnoticed.
"Here, it is clear that the City dismissed the Petitioners' tickets for the sole reason of avoiding an injunction in this matter, which the Court was poised to enter following the November hearing," he wrote.Nearly every other claim made by the defendants was rebuffed by Judge Ohmer. The defendant's argued the plaintiffs had other venues to pursue their claims, like the municipal court, but a recent decision found that this court didn't provide adequate remedy for their claims. The defendants also argued the two filers didn't meet the requirements for a class action lawsuit. Judge Ohmer pointed out that the pair satisfied the "class action" stipulations because the ordinance affected other citizens.
The key element found to be in violation of state law is the fact that ATS' cameras (like all traffic enforcement cameras) presume the registered owner of the vehicle is the driver. This common aspect becomes even more problematic when the ticketed person has very limited avenues for recourse, which also unfortunately tends to be the case with automated enforcement. (This is also one of several problems with the recently introduced legislation that would allow Oklahoma police officers to issue traffic citations without leaving their vehicles.)
This combination of factors has led some traffic camera companies to basically convert their enforcement systems into purely voluntary operations. As the article notes, another Missouri city's council members recently voted unanimously to not enforce red light camera tickets. The camera system will be allowed to keep running and issuing citations but the city and the red light camera company won't pursue those who ignore tickets and will erase fines for anyone who contests their citation. Feeling safer yet, drivers?
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"Odd Man Out" Author Matt McCarthy in Fullerton March 4
Matt McCarthy, the author of Odd Man Out, is scheduled to appear in Fullerton tomorrow March 4 for a book signing.
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The Wabash and Manchester volleyball teams played the first inter county battle at Wabash Thursday with the Lady Apaches winning the battle 25-22, 25-23, 22-25, 25-17.
With the two teams evenly matched, it was a battle the entire night. Manchester would take control early in game one, getting kills from Corrie Osborne and Kendra Binkley, plus an ace from Marrett Metzger to take an 8-5 lead. The Squires would keep the lead to 11-9 when Wabash made their move. Three kills from Lyndsie Thomas, plus a block ignited a 6-0 run to put Wabash up 15-11. The Lady Squires would answer with four straight to knot the score at 15, off a kill from Osborne and an ace from Leah Sorg. The Apaches would then take advantage of some Squire miscues to grab the lead back, holding on to a one point lead before scoring the final two points for the 25-22 win.
Wabash looked like they were going to run away with game two. The Apaches got off to a 5-2 lead with two Thomas kills and one from Taylor Cain. Leah Sorg would cut the lead to one with a kill and an ace before Wabash would go on a run. The Lady Apaches would reel off five straight to grab a 10-4 lead and later use a seven point run to lead 22-12. Looking like the game was over, the Lady Squires caught fire. At 23-14 and Sorg serving, Manchester would score seven straight to close the gap to two points at 23-21. Sorg had three aces during the run, with Sydney Snep recording a kill. At 24-23 Sarah Ritter would stop the Squire run with a kill that ended game two 25-23 and Wabash led 2-0.
Up 2-0 the Apaches had all the momentum and carried it over to start game three. With Sarah Ritter serving the Apaches would jump out to a 6-0 lead. Manchester would cut the lead in half, aided by a Osborne kill, but Wabash kept the pressure on and built the lead to 14-8. After an Apache error, Binkley and Sorg had kills as Manchester scored four straight to make it 14-12. The Lady Squires would go on to score seven of the next eight points to grab a 19-16 lead with Wabash eventually evening the score at 20. A Rae Bedke ace along with a Osborne kill gave Manchester the lead back at 23-20, eventually winning 25-22 on a Binkley kill.
With Manchester now having the momentum, they got off to a good start in game four, building a lead to 9-6. Lyndsie Thomas would record a kill for Wabash and with a Shelby Stone tip scored five of the next six points to grab a 14-11 lead. The margin would stay at one point until 14-13 when Wabash took over. Shai Parrett got things started with a kill from the back row, with Thomas getting two more and built the lead to 19-14. Thomas would continue to dominate at the net, getting two more kills, while Taylor Cain got a block for a point and Claire Cromer an ace to open things up t 23-17. Thomas and Ritter would record back to back kills to end the game and night 25-17.
For Wabash Claire Cromer had 21 digs, 29 assists, Lyndsie Thomas 18 digs, 23 kills with 4 stuff blocks and 6 service points, Sarah Ritter 5 kills, Shai Parrett 15 digs, Kyleigh Hampton 9 service points and 5 kills.
For Manchester Leah Sorg went on a 10 serve service run in game two, rounding out her total 23 serves for the night with 5 aces. Other aces were added by Cali Spann, 3, Rae Bedke, 2, Marret Metzger, 2, and Sydney Snep, 1. Sorg also led the front row with 7 kills, followed by the middles; Kendra Binkley with 6 and Corrie Osborne with 5. Cierra Carter added in 4 kills during her time on the court. Metzger, Milam, and Isbell all had 1 kill. Assists were given by Bedke, 13, as well as Isbell, 1, and Spann, 1. Our blocking showed improvement with 3 block assists by Binkley and Isbell, 2 by Osborne, and 1 by Sorg and Bedke. Sorg and Osborne also had 1 solo block for the evening. In the back row, Metzger led with 13 digs and took the majority of the balls in serve receive, passing at a 2.4 on a 3.0 scale. Kaitlyn Parrett had 9 digs, Spann and Bedke at 8, Carter and Kiana Gillum with 5, Milam with 4, Osborne with 3, and then Isbell, Snep, and Binkley all with 1 dig a piece.
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