31 Articles Worth Reading: A Special Monday Edition of Link Love
March 31, 2008
Because of Blog Madness (And because I closed on my new house over the weekend) I am a bit late with the link love, but here are some good articles to read this week.
- The Self-Publishing Finals - Outskirts Press vs. iUniverse
- When Good Clients Ask for Bad Stuff (or, Why I’m at the Poop Conference)
- The Jim Morrison Guide to Strategic Content Promotion
- Why Real Writers Don’t Write on the Internet
- How to Accomplish Your Dreams
- Does Description Have a Place in Fiction?
- The Money’s in the Message
- Freelance Writing - Top Blog Jobs And How To Get Them
- Freelance Writing some Pros and Cons
- How You Can Gain Clients By Getting Off the Web
- Starting A Copywriting Business
- Would You Use a Job Auction Site to Find Work?
- How Intention Adds Fuel To The Writing Fire
- What’s the Best Thing You’ve Done to Grow Your Career?
- What makes a great book a great book?
- Four Simple Ways to Avoid Totally Botching an Interview
- Guidelines for Building a Freelance Writing Portfolio by Blogging
- Advice for unpublished writers
- Using Writing Bursts to Generate Ideas and Enthusiasm
- Get Unambiguous and Get More Customers
- How To Build Traffic Without Marketing
- Fiction Writing: Playing Games
- 10 Compelling Reasons People Read YOUR Blog
- Coming Up with Blog Post Ideas
- Is a Freelance Writing Contract Necessary?
- Does Blogging take Writers away from Writing?
- On The Publishing Job Market
- Nine Things I’ve Learned While Running a Business
- Your Own Song: What you Need to Know about Writing
- How To Remain Productive When You Feel Like Giving Up
- 10 Overused Game Journalism Cliches
Thanks for the link love, John. And congrats on the house closing! We just closed on a rad new place a few weeks ago and are finally getting over the heap of boxes. Our movers thought our many (many) boxes of books were rocks. Needless to say, I tipped them well.
Hey John, thanks for all that link love, and I’ll add my congrats on the house (which I think means that you bought one. U.S. term?).
Movers… Those would be great!
Yes, Closing means that you sign all of the paperwork to finish buying the house. This consists of you, a title agent, and a stack of paperwork about the size of your head. There’s way too much to read so you are put in the wonderful position of trusting someone else with your well-being.
Typical Quote:
“OK, so this page promises that you will do 100 push-ups every day, otherwise you void the warranty on your grout….”
Ahhh… I’m in the process of trying to convince the banks that a self-employed business owner is a really good risk and they should lend me money to buy a house so I can ditch expensive rent, so I hear you on the wonderful position of trust. May I add HOURS of phone calls and extreme frustration?
I’ll start my exercise routine now to prepare for grout warranties. I’ll need that.
Despite the temptation to mentally check out, it IS important to pay strict attention, when closing.
On a re-fi of our, at about 900 documents into it, with the end in sight. The lawyer stated, “…and this says that there is no lein on the property.”
I skimmed the domument and said, “there IS a lien on the property, I can not sign that.”
He looked at me, as though I told him his mother had died. “My staff went down to the probate and found no lein on the property. Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
Did you have somw work done to the property.
“Yes, and there is a lein on the property.”
“Are you sure.”
“Yes”
“Do you have the document.”
“It is at the house.”
“I will have to look at it.”
I then left the wife and the screaming kids on the floor of the lawyer’s office , and went to the house to retrieve the document, becasue obviously, I did not know what I was talking about.
When I retunred, nearly an hour later, I presented him with the document. He looked it over and said, “Yes, there is a lein on the property. We have to re-schedule the closing.”
“And the guaranteed rate that expires today?”
“Um, well.”
“I told you there was a lien.”
“We will buy down the rate, since it was our fault.”
“Thank you.”
The short of it all:
Pay Attention. The Lawyer does NOT always get it right.
Good luck in your new home.
Thanks for the linkage, John. And congrats on the house. Hope it’s someplace warm.
PS @James Garner - I work for many lawyers, so I can back you up. They’re wrong quite often. But I never said that.
I actually did catch a major omission in the paperwork. That saved me $2100.