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Cascade County will soon clean up the defunct Home Place property at 4300 2ndAve. N., a county official said Wednesday. Deputy County Attorney Greg Bonilla said that the owners of the property have agreed to allow the county to clean it up without spending time serving them with legal documents. .
IT Consultants Direct has launched a contractor induction service to provide IT contractors a fixed finder's fee, replacing the industry standard of commission. Company managing director Richard Simmons says: “We are convinced that our clients will welcome the fixed fee approach as an opportunity to greatly reduce their recruiting costs whilst acquiring contractors of the highest calibre." The service operates like any other contract vacancy. The difference comes when the client selects a candidate. A straightforward finder's fee of £750 (plus VAT) is charged, and the contractor and client then can negotiate their own fees and terms. .
At least six qualified energy professionals will go to a remotely located modular home and garage that are powered exclusively by the Tilley Home Power system, to test the system for at least seven days, to verify that the fuelless technology works as claimed. by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
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MIAMI -- Some residents of Blue Lakes Mobile Home Park in west Miami-Dade County protested Tuesday, saying their landlord is harassing them to leave their homes. Residents marched and carried hand-painted signs, asking county officials for help. Residents said the landlord posted an eviction notice in March. They claimed that once the announcement was made, they were subject to threats and harassment to get them to move out sooner. .
Like most homeowners, Alan Farber had no expertise with remodeling when he hired a contractor to redo his kitchen. Everything seemed to go wrong, from the quality of the granite to the timetable to estimated costs.
"Turned out it was below average, but I'd already paid him," Farber said. "I ended up having another guy come in and fix it and wasn't really happy with that either." .
LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- Dozens of residents face eviction in Snohomish County because many mobile home parks statewide are being sold off to big developers. State officials estimate statewide by October 2007, 21 mobile home communities will be closed forcing nearly 700 families to move. More than half of the mobile homes being sold are in Snohomish County. The last thing you want do is tear down your own when you don't want to leave, so it feels like somebody's got a gun to our heads and asked to pull the trigger, mobile home advocate Kylin Parks said. Parks has successfully rallied residents together and convinced the Housing Authority of Snohomish County to try and buy the property from the developer. If you would like to know more or would like to help you can email Parks at kylinparks@yahoo.com .
In June, I started writing Knape's Corner, a Web log at The Press' online site, mlive.com/grpress. It's a place for tidbits and sometimes random thoughts that do not make it into the paper you're holding. Most of the time the blog is about the Grand Rapids development scene. Sometimes it's not. Occasionally, so I've been told, it's been useful, amusing and interesting. At times, my wife tells me, it misses the mark. But always it's an additional take on local happenings you won't see anywhere in these pages, with links, old photos and other items I dig out and post. Today's column is a digest of entries from this past week. Think of it like a visit to the grocery store when they have a bunch of free samples. Some might be good.
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