You Must Know #77

I knew bout the red light on cars,but not the #77 It was about 1:00 pm in the afternoon, and a gal was driving to visit a friend when an UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. She has always been taught to never to pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc. So the gal promptly called #77 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an  unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her..... The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren't, he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way. Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes. I never knew about the  #77 Cell Phone Feature, but especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car.  Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going to a safe quiet place.  You obviously need to make some signals that you acknowledge them, i..e.. put on your hazard lights & call #77 . Too bad the cell phone companies don't generally give you this little bit of wonderful information. Snopes confirmed that #77 was a direct link to State trooper info. in all 50 states. So, now it's your turn to let your friends know about #77. Send this to every woman (and person) you know; it may save a life. http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/fakecop.asp

Todays' Market Statistics

04/15/2010

21,601 Homes Listed
$317,502 Avg Price
419 Price Changes Today
447 New Listings Today
30 Year Rate 5.00%
15 Year Rate 4.85%

BUYERS GET OFF THE FENCE NOW

I don't know of too many professional and active Realtors® who run their real estate business like the picture posted suggests and very contrary to all the marketing and glamorous life style you see for get rich programs for the buying and selling of real estate with no cash involved!

A professional full-time Realtor® will make it happen with the least amount of stress to their clients in helping them find the home of their dreams at a great price and value with the least amount of costs involved and handling all the details, deadline dates, contract, inspections, and watching your backs financially right up to closing and beyond.. Call me now to get your home under contract by April 30th to qualify for the 8K for first time home buyers and 6.5K for homeowners who have owned a home for 5 years or more before this great program ends April 30th. Must be under contract by then.

If you are looking to buy a home and are ready, willing and able, you are going to kick yourself if you miss out on this tax incentive program. The new FICO 08 score guidelines will be coming out in the near future and for potential home buyers who has credit scores below 700, they will drop even further with 08 FICO guidelines, which will put many potential buyers, especially first-time home buyers, not able to qualify for a loan. Also interest rates are guaranteed to be going up and have already been creeping up slowly. We will see them raised to the 6 percent bracket very soon and who knows how high they will go in the future with the economy outlook?.

Don't be one of those left on the outside looking in!

How the New Credit Card Act Will Affect Credit Cards...

Here is a great article I ran across on Yahoo Finance that goes into a little more depth as to what to watch for with your current or future credit cards and what to avoid.

You probably have received a notice already from your current credit card company, all in very small print of course. I took one of mine into the bank and had them interpret and explain in detail if these changes would in any way affect my current agreement.

I suggest everyone look closely at the changes and then make reasonable decisions based on the new laws and creative financing the credit card company's and banks are coming up with to find new ways to make money in a declining market.
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109236/how-the-credit-card-act-wil-affect-types-of-credit-cards?mod=bb-creditcards

It's April Fools' Day

Here's a great article to fulfill all your April Fool Day Fantasies

April 1 is the only day of the year when deceit and pranks are not just tolerated, but encouraged. Interest in the "holiday" is palpable in the Yahoo! Search box. Web lookups for "best april fools day pranks," "how to trick a friend," and "funny April fools day tricks" are all making more noise than an overinflated whoopee cushion.

But if you ask us, the most interesting prank-related query is this: April Fools' Day history. Would-be Allen Funts clearly want to know why everybody is allowed to lie to each other on the first day of April. Here's the scoop...

There are several theories regarding the origin of April Fools' Day, and none of them are 100% definitive. However, one does stand above the rest: The Museum of Hoaxes explains that in 1564, King Charles IX of France passed a law that changed the beginning of the year from April 1 to January 1.

News of the change traveled slowly. Those who were either misinformed or slow to make the adjustments still celebrated the New Year on April 1. As a result, they were mocked and pranks were pulled.

The urban legend experts at Snopes.com note that several other theories are worth considering. Some believe that the day falls on April 1 because of the arrival of spring, when "nature 'fools' mankind with fickle weather." Another possibility: The holiday "is thought to commemorate the fruitless mission of the rook (the European crow), who was sent out in search of land from Noah's flood-encircled ark."

Regardless of the origin, people show no signs of giving up the tradition. The number of Web searches for "april fools day prank ideas" are scary high. Everyone (and especially parents) should be on the lookout. That "$1,000 cell phone bill" your daughter hands you might not be the real McCoy.

To help out the gullible and easily tricked, we rounded up some of the most popular prank ideas from Yahoo! Search. Also worth checking out: some of the best online pranks ever, from Christian Science Monitor (remember Facebook's "LivePoke" feature?). Keep your guard up, suckas...



1. Office April Fools Day Pranks
2. Easy April Fools Day Jokes
3. April Fools Day Phone Calls
4. Computer Pranks
5. Prank Call Soundboard
6. April Fools Food Pranks
7. School April Fools Pranks
8. Pranks to Pull on Teacher
9. April Fools Day Texts
10. April Fools Pranks for Boyfriends

by Mike Krumboltz
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93527?fp=1