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Month: April 2019

Columns

Keep your best employees: Develop a “culture of caring”

April 10, 2019 Dr. W. J. Heisler 0

In today’s economy, many employers from restaurants to high tech are concerned about keeping their best talent. As the economy heats up, talented individuals have many more options regarding employment opportunities. According to the Tennessee-based [Read More…]

Features

Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer: Seamlessly pairing space and clients Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match

April 10, 2019 Kelli Caplan 0

Teresa Nettles spends much of her time finding the perfect properties in which prospective buyers and renters can house their businesses. She is a commercial real estate matchmaker, so to speak. And like true matchmakers, [Read More…]

Features

Triple Crown Title Group, LLC: Relationship focused, results driven

April 10, 2019 Abigail Barna 0

The process of buying and selling homes is permeated with laws, rights, registrations and real estate vernacular, which leads clients to feel overwhelmed and under-informed with the processes of realty. Thankfully, Wendy Laster, Julianne Cyr [Read More…]

Columns

Bucharest, capital of Romania

April 10, 2019 Nancy B. Alligood, CTC 0

Last year, I had the unique opportunity to escort a group of Warwick Travelers on an Eastern Mediterranean River Cruise on the lower Danube River, disembarking in Bucharest, a part of the world I had [Read More…]

Columns

How to avoid property management nightmares

April 10, 2019 Shannon Edwards 0

Since the downturn of the market in 2007, there are a lot of homeowners who have transitioned from home “seller” to “investor,” simply because they owe more on their home than they can sell it [Read More…]

Columns

Life care planning

April 10, 2019 Oyster Pointer 0

By Catherine E. Sears, Esq., Attorney, The Peninsula Center for Estate and Lifelong Planning Over the next 25 years, it is estimated that caring for elderly relatives will become as common as childcare. Most people [Read More…]

Columns

Tennis, anyone? Anyone?

April 10, 2019 Stan Glasofer 0

Years ago, my friend Hal talked me into trying tennis. He said that tennis is good for one’s heart and people who stay active live longer,. (I believe that statisticians can easily calculate that the [Read More…]

Columns

Credit unions vs. banks: Is there really a difference?

April 10, 2019 Oyster Pointer 0

By Jennifer Coyne, Bayport Credit Union On the surface, there doesn’t appear to be a big difference between credit unions and banks. Both are financial institutions that offer checking accounts, loans, business banking and even [Read More…]

Beside the Point

Tom McGrath’s Motorcycle Law Group: Two-wheeled law

April 10, 2019 Christian Chance 0

When Tom McGrath began riding motorcycles in the early nineties, he was working as a prosecutor for the Commonwealth’s Attorney Office in Richmond. Around the same time, the state introduced High Occupancy Vehicle travel lanes, [Read More…]

Features

NEST Kitchen and Taphouse: A comfortable place to enjoy great food and beer

April 10, 2019 Nancy P. Sykes 0

Tucked away next to the Kiln Creek Golf Center and Resort in the Kiln Creek subdivision is a restaurant called NEST. “We pride ourselves on the uniqueness of the fare we offer,” says Melissa Weston, [Read More…]

Features

Brooke Scutt – Director of Operations, Re/Max Peninsula

April 10, 2019 Oyster Pointer 0

I didn’t get to it first, but the world’s greatest invention is Google. The Internet. Immediate access to information. If I were shipwrecked on Gilligan’s Island, my dream team of fellow castaways would be the [Read More…]

Features

Superior Reef: Expert saltwater, reef and freshwater aquarium care

April 10, 2019 Cathy Welch 0

“I always had a saltwater and freshwater aquarium,” Michigan native, Doug Van Wyck, says of his early interest in aquatics. Van Wyck earned his scuba certification at 12. A few years later his dad took [Read More…]

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