Chelsea and Manchester United have entered the race to sign Barcelona full-back Jordi
Alba, reports say.
Alba has been waiting for Barcelona to offer him a new contract, and his agent says he
has been left baffled by the lack of movement in negotiations.
The left-back was told 18 months ago he would receive a new deal, but has yet to be offered
any extension.
Alba's current deal expires in 2020 and Sport claim United and Chelsea have been alerted
to the dispute between the player and his club, and are poised to make their move.
Both Premier League clubs are on the hunt for new defenders, and Jose Mourinho is desperate
to add natural full-backs to his squad.
Alba is highly regarded across football as a player capable of having an influence in
attack, as well as defence.
But, the Spain international's agent hinted there is a growing tension between Alba and
Barcelona, and suggested his client had
been mistreated.
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Poland Offers US Up to $2B for Permanent Military Base - Duration: 0:57.
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Pain Management Task Force: Assistant Secretary for Health ADM Brett P. Giroir's Opening Remarks - Duration: 5:43.
I'm very appreciative for the Secretary being here this morning, I think it really just
emphasizes his commitment to this area of work and to this Task Force.
That's the main reason I'm here as well, to emphasize my commitment to this Task Force
and also my support of Dr. Singh.
I know for a fact that Dr. Singh and Ms. Richmond Scott, from my office, have been working tirelessly
for months, and I do mean that, tirelessly for months.
And I want to thank both you and Ms. Richmond Scott, where are you?
There you are, back there.
Ok, for all of your hard work and your professionalism.
Secretary Azar just provided you with some of the legislative background starting this
Task Force, specifically CARA.
I as well want to emphasize that this Task Force is a critical component of the Comprehensive
Addiction and Recovery Act.
Because with all of the very appropriate concern about addiction and substance misuse, President
Trump and the Congress did not want us to forget that pain is real and those who suffer
from pain should not be forgotten during our efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.
We know that there are millions of Americans who suffer from pain, both chronic and
acute, men and women, boys and girls, civilian and military, all races and socioeconomic
groups, from the very young to our seniors.
In my career as a pediatric critical care specialist, I daily witnessed children, children,
in pain, and often treated that pain in our children alongside the pain management
colleagues.
Acute pain was very common in children after cardiac or orthopedic surgery, or certainly
following severe trauma, for those children, physicians, nurses, pharmacists practicing
multi-model pain therapy were just a true Godsend at relieving suffering and enabling
healing.
And when I think of chronic pain, from my experience as a pediatric physician I always
envision the 100,000 patients in the United States with sickle cell disease whose life
of acute and chronic pain often begins in infancy, and frequently recurs over their
entire lifetime.
For these patients, and countless others with severe pain, this Interagency Task Force could
be a transformational, watershed moment.
And I am not exaggerating.
Because of that, you on this Task Force have my commitment to support your efforts in every
way that I can.
And I know I say that on behalf of the Secretary as well.
So, now I have to iterate a few important points that are important for the operation
of the Task Force.
This Task Force was identified, was established to identify, review, and as appropriate
determine whether there are gaps or inconsistencies in the "best practices" for pain management
that have been developed or adopted by federal agencies.
In this Task Force's responsibility, it is this Task Force's responsibility to propose
updates to these "best practices" and to recommend ways in which we can address
whatever gaps or inconsistencies you discover.
And equally important, as Dr. Singh has already emphasized, we want the public's opinion.
The public will be given the opportunity to comment on any proposed updates and recommendations
the Task Force offers.
So you on the Task Force have an enormous task, but also potentially an unprecedented
opportunity.
It is my hope that this Task Force will identify a clear path forward to effectively improve
the care of individuals living with the challenge of pain.
That path includes not only considerations of effective pain control, but also the potential
long term consequences of pain therapies such as potential physical dependence and addiction.
Over the next two days, you will be hearing from representatives from many of our agencies.
The complex challenges in pain management make it critical that our government agencies
work together to address all issues and consequences both those that can be anticipated, as
well as those that may be unexpected.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, or OASH as you've heard, which I lead,
coordinates multiple efforts across HHS on behalf of the Secretary and indeed the entire
federal government, so we are ideally suited to support you in your efforts.
I will be meeting with Dr. Singh on a regular basis.
I know her knock at my door already, over the past few months, and she knows she has
an open door to me whenever I can support her, her efforts or we just want to brainstorm
about things that could happen.
In conclusion, I thank you again for your service.
It really is a task of service that you are providing to the federal government and to
the American people, and I look forward to hearing about your progress in the days and
weeks to come.
Thank you very much.
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Tired of the Game? How to Recharge Your Passion For Life - Duration: 17:02.
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State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith Endorses Eric Rollings for Orange County Commission District 3 - Duration: 1:00.
Hi I'm State Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, and I am proud to announce my support
and endorsement for my friend, Eric Rollings, for Orange County Commission District 3."
For years, I've worked with Eric, to preserve environmentally sensitive lands east of the
Econ River, to regulate harmful plastic bags and styrofoam at the local and state level,
and I know that Eric Rollings is going to be a strong voice for the environment on the
Orange County Board of County Commissioners.
When elected, Eric Rollings will be the first openly-LGBTQ county commissioner in our county's
history, which means we know that we will have a strong voice for equality at the local
level.
Please join me in supporting Eric Rollings for Orange County Commission District 3.
And to find out more, visit his website at www.EricRollings.com.
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A Great Tip for Making Yarn Pom Poms | Sophie's World - Duration: 4:10.
hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world I just want to give you a quick tip on how
to make a super easy pom-pom now if you've seen my video on how to make a
pom pom I'm going to show you how to make it one step easier. I'm going to show you how to
do that right now so when you're making a pom-pom as I showed you in my earlier
videos you use a base of cardboard or foam core we're gonna make this super
super simple so when we did our original one we just used a three by four inch
piece of foam core what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to take my ruler and
I'm gonna mark the center point so one and a half inches in and I'm gonna mark
it so that I can make a little line and then I'm gonna draw a line from one end
right down the middle I'm going to leave about an inch here so just mark it like
that and then what I'm going to do is just take my exacto knife and I'm going
to cut on either side of that line
and then I'm just gonna cut that little piece out so but now I end up with a
very simple cut right down the middle of my foam core here okay and then what I do
is just like normal come back with my yarn and I start
wrapping it right and I just start wrapping it and wrapping it and if I
want to beforehand what I can do is just take a little piece of I'm going to use a
different color here so you can see it take a different piece of string put it
right through the center there right this is going to be my tie off and then
I'm just going to start wrapping so then when you're all done it's going to look
like this you've got your big mound of yarn and you've got your little string
here then you can take that string you pull it up through the slot and tie it
off really really tight and this is what's so great about this is that
you've automatically tied those two sides together and then you slide this
off of here and now you're ready to cut and then you just continue like would
normally do for your pom-pom now if you haven't seen my original pom-pom video
and now it's a chance to go back check that out because that's going to show
you all the other steps the earlier steps but this is how you make it much
much easier on yourself on tying off your pom-pom at the end this is one of
those things we were working at parties and we we discovered that it was too
hard for kids to do it on their own and so we were doing a lot of it and then it
hit us oh my gosh if we just put a little cut in here the kids don't have
to do the double tie and they can end up with these awesome pom poms much easier
so watch the first video but then instead of using the standard form which
is a solid piece of cardboard put a little slit in it that's all
got to do and that's gonna make making your pom-poms a hundred times easier
it's crazy how that one little cut makes all the difference and gives you a great
pom-pom that's so much easier to make than the one where you have to tie it on
both sides you know that's the great thing about doing art the more you do it
the more you learn and what's great about YouTube is I get to share it as I
learn it for more great ideas check us out sophie-world.com I promise as I
get better at things I will share them with you
sophie-world.com
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Toothbrush and Toothpaste Drawing and Coloring Book for Kids - Duration: 5:53.
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3 Mail Activities for Kids - Junk Mail, Stickers and Stamps (Letter Writing, Pen Pals, Collecting) - Duration: 5:36.
hey guys it's melissa from little kosher lunch thanks for joining me because
today i finally went through my pile of mail and it stimulated me to talk to you
about mail and correspondence activities with children today have three different
activities or ideas to share with you about letters letter-writing pen pals
and stamps here I have a lot of them here is a stack of return envelopes that i just
pulled out of my junk mail literally for things that i'm not mailing back
now if you or someone you know is on every mailing list for all of the
charities or let's say you give to one or more charities a year you probably
are on those mailing lists where you get the little free return address labels
and maybe it comes with little stickers to seal your envelope and it's like a
little free gift or incentive from the charity well my mother is on everybody's
charity list so I actually have a drawer a junk drawer just full of these
stickers we do activities where the girls can just practice writing on paper
like writing a card putting you know the name of a friend and then practicing
writing their own names and then instead of fooling with mommy's stamps they have
their own stamps that are not worth money that they can practice sticking in
the stamp area so this is like a little starter activity for a child who might
be ready to have a pen pal soon or who wants to pretend that they have a pen
pal so that's my first activity for you all my second idea about stamps and kids
and mailing letters is that I like to buy stamps either online I order them or
if I go to the post office I always try to get stamps that aren't boring so much
mail is metered now and it's just not so beautiful so I pick up stamps that are
fun for kids or just generally beautiful I have the old ice cream stamps but the
new ones are coming out that have a smell which I'm so excited for i
pre-ordered them this week I have Birds I have flowers so if we're mailing a
card if it's like a birthday card or a card to a relative or a thank-you note I
always try to have these beautiful stamps on hand for my daughter's to pick
the stamp that they want and then to put that stamp on their card and this is
just a way of sort of exciting the recipient before they even open your
card and I think it's also a nice way to teach my daughters about the fact that
these stamps cost money and we pay the mailman or the mail lady to deliver our
letter and so just the idea that you're receiving a service when you send a
letter through the mail is like a nice idea to teach a child I'm so into stamps
that I actually think that these are a really nice gift for a child you know I
know people who use them as stocking stuffers for kids and it's also a way
for your child to maybe engage with a topic that's interesting to them there
are science stamps sea creatures stamps cartoons famous people there's a Sally
Ride stamp that just came out I just ordered the solar eclipse stamps which
are super beautiful so you can explore all kinds of topics and I think it's um
just something that's maybe old-fashioned that I wanted to share
with you my last tip is one that's free it's my second free tip for you and that
is collecting stamps that come in your own mail that are cancelled stamps here
here is a pretty a pretty thick bag of stamps that we've saved so far as a
family my girls really look forward to receiving letters in the mail and they
do receive letters from some of their grandparents on a regular basis we
always always always look at and admire beautiful stamps that come on mail and I
make a point to tear those stamps off and save them for a future craft project
we don't know what but there is going to be a family craft project that will use
these beautiful stamps another idea if you're mailing things is sometimes I
have done this these are ones we've received but you know you could really
load up your stamps on a package or use up old stamps or
small increments and you know we had friends you did that for us and they're
just too they're too beautiful to throw away so we save the nice stamps that
come even the flag stamps you know there's so much diversity of a certain
theme on our postage so even though flag stamps I find sort of boring
I do find them really interesting when you line them up next to one another so
these are like topics for you know thinking with your kid or exploring or
discussing or collecting that don't cost you any money or cost very little they're
also practical life skills that you can teach a child so just a few minutes
of your time I wanted to share these ideas that were on my mind and if you
haven't seen them yet you should definitely look up these new ice cream
scratch-and-sniff stamps that are coming out I have no skin in the game but I'm
just really interested in them so I can link those for you down below thanks so
much for your time I am doing videos all the time primarily about meals and lunch
packing for my children but also about activities like these so if you like
this video give it a thumbs up and let me know your thoughts I'll see you soon
back here bye bye
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Japan Reportedly Slaughters Over 300 Whales for 'Research' - Duration: 1:02.
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Jury: David Copperfield not liable for tourist's injuries - Duration: 1:38.
Jury: David Copperfield not liable for tourist's injuries
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury says David Copperfield was negligent but not responsible for a British tourists injuries during a vanishing act that used audience participants in a Las Vegas Strip show.
Gavin Cox and his wife alleged negligence by the illusionist, the MGM Grand hotel and several businesses in a lawsuit.
Jurors decision Tuesday means the couple are not entitled to monetary damages.
Cox testified that he suffered brain and other injuries in a 2013 fall while stagehands urged him and others to run during a trick that appeared to make people disappear onstage and reappear in the theater.
Copperfield testified that until Cox sued, he never knew of anyone getting hurt during nearly 20 years performing the trick.
Coxs lawyers brought in three women who testified that they also were injured.
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Breaking News - Arsenal move closer to deal for full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner - Duration: 1:46.
Arsenal are close to an agreement with free agent full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner. The 34-year-old Swiss international held talks last week and further negotiations have centred on a one year contract which is now in place
Borussia Dortmund had also shown interest in former Juventus right-back Lichtsteiner who will act as cover for Hector Bellerin
Arsenal remain in talks with Dortmund over a fee for centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos with the Bundesliga side looking for £15
7m. Recruitment director Sven Mislintat is keen to give Unai Emery options to work with in defence following the achilles injury suffered by Laurent Koscielny
Arsenal have a limited budget but will also look to generate funds with sales. They retain interest in Freiburg's Caglar Soyuncu and Jonny Evans of West Brom while they have made enquiries for midfielder Dennis Praet at Sampdoria and Lorenzo Pellegrini of Roma
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MLB Daily Fantasy: Pitchers and Stacks For May 30th - Duration: 6:47.
MLB Daily Fantasy: Pitchers and Stacks For May 30th
Weather plays a big role in Wednesday's 10-game MLB DFS slate, which also features a few of the best pitchers in baseball.
Keep an eye on the forecast heading into the evening, and plan accordingly.
The major weather concerns are in Pittsburgh and Detroit, with scattered showers around the east coast stadiums possibly causing delays.
There were plenty of power options available last night, as 48 home runs were hit across baseball.
Power continues to rule, and Jeff Passan noted earlier this week that this year could set an all-time record for the lowest percentage of singles hit.
Through Sunday, 63.69 percent of all hits have been singles.
Still not exactly a low number, but the record-setting pace is indicative of the type of season we've had so far.
Let's take a look at the main slate, offering recommendations for both DraftKings and FanDuel:.
MLB DFS Pitchers.
Today is a tough day for pitchers, but it doesn't have to be.
Two of the game's best are in action in solid matchups, and both are worth paying the price tag.
We'll also include a cheaper, riskier option to help you build around big bats.
James Paxton.
Paxton gave up five runs in Texas earlier this year, but he gets them at home tonight where he's been much better.
Big Maple has posted back-to-back monster starts, including 11 strikeouts last week against Minnesota.
Texas strikes out more than any team in baseball, and despite scoring at least five runs in eight straight games, seven of them were at home.
Paxton is under 10K on FanDuel, where he'll likely be the most popular choice.
On both formats he's at least 2K cheaper than Max Scherzer, making him the default option for those seeking an ace with slightly more roster flexibility.
Max Scherzer.
Those expecting Scherzer to dominate the Marlins were let down in his last start, as he posted both his highest run total and lowest strikeout totals of the season.
Tonight he gets another great matchup against Baltimore, one of the worst hitting teams in baseball.
Scherzer usually gives up at least a run or two, but if he can avoid Manny Machado, he could mow down this Orioles lineup and get back to double-digit strikeouts.
He's by far the most expensive pitcher on the slate, but if you're afraid Texas is too hot right now, Scherzer is a lock for a strong game.
Value: Fernando Romero.
Romero can close out an excellent May with a strong start tonight, and he's dirt cheap on FanDuel ($6,600).
Romero has only one start where he's allowed more than two runs, and struck out seven Mariners over seven innings in his most recent start.
There's a good chance he won't go more than five innings, but he's got the strikeout numbers to make up for it and match his price tag.
The Royals are actually worse against righties than they are left-handed pitchers, batting .249 as a team in 55 games this season.
MLB DFS Stacks. Mariners.
This one is easy and should be very popular.
Matt Moore is very bad and is usually the target of DFS stacks whenever he starts.
He's surrendered at least four runs in five of his 10 starts this season, including a 10-run implosion against Cleveland.
The entire Mariners outfield is in play tonight, but also take a look at Jean Segura, who returned from a two-game absence with another three-hit game.
He's had at least two hits in six of his last ten games played.
It feels like a night for Ryon Healey to go yard.
Braves.
With Noah Syndergaard headed to the DL, Jason Vargas gets bumped up for a start against Atlanta.
After skipping a start to fix himself, Vargas pitched five scoreless innings to get a win over Miami.
Unfortunately the success was short-lived, and Vargas was lit up by Milwaukee over the weekend.
Now he faces Atlanta, the day after the Mets bullpen had to replace an injured Steven Matz and then go 10 innings last night.
I'm really hoping the weather avoids this game tonight, where a cheap option like Preston Tucker could come in handy if we're paying for pitching.
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How Composting can be Good for Your Garden and Home | Stacy Lyn Harris - Duration: 5:16.
Hey, I'm Stacy Lyn and welcome to my compost pile
Composting is just the natural
recycling of organic material such as dead leaves and kitchen scraps
into a soil amendment that is really rich and
Gardeners call it black gold. When you compost your soil, it's going to become
Disease resistant it's going to retain moisture and it's going to have nutrients that make strong plants
so it's really pretty simple and it's something that everybody that has a garden really should be doing I have a
composting collector here that I got from Lehman's and they have anything you need composting you need to go and
Get yours there. This is a collector where you are gonna empty it into your composting bin outside
Every couple of days some people will leave it in their homes for a week. Some people like me
I take it out about every three days because we collect a lot of compost. It's all ceramic
So it keeps the smell inside and it really doesn't start smelling until something gets out of balance
You might add too many fats. Don't do that
But it also has this filter that will also keep it from smelling up your kitchen
But if it does just take it out and put it in your composting bin outside
If you do have a problem, all you need to do is put a little brown in it
Meaning carbon Brown is your carbon and so it's paper strips of paper strips of newspaper
Just don't use anything with ink because you know, it could be toxic
I have a lot of green material in mine right now, and I'm still adding it
I've got banana peels you can put potatoes tops of carrots any of your green leafy things that you know
you have the end to it onion peels and I also have
This which is my coffee filters and I drink lots of coffee
so a lot of people worry about
This having chemicals and all but if you're using them for your coffee filters the water is going straight through it
so you might as well use it in your composting bin you have brown matter with the coffee filter and
You have green with the grinds. So let's take this outside and empty it into my compost bin
My composting pile is not too far away
From the house, but it's far enough that I don't want to have to come out here every day
So my collector friend Lehman's is just the right size is awesome
My boys built this for me about five years ago. Our family was growing and our
Garden was growing. So we needed a larger compost pile
So I'm gonna dump this right on top of my composting bin and we have two sections here and I always recommend people have two
sides to a composting pile just because they can use one and
then they can actually use the the amended soil from one and then the other one they can be putting their green things in so
Today, I'm putting my green into this pile and I come out here every two or three days
Like I say and I add more green to it
We have plenty of the brown material which is our leaves right now because it's in the middle of winter
So we have pine straw and we have leaves the only thing you really need to know about a composting pile
Is that the ratio is
Important you need to try to keep your ratio either four to one meaning for green
To one brown or three to one which is what I would rather have which is three green
meaning live I always think of that in my head as a little I've you know,
like it's green and
The brown is dead, like dead leaves paper stuff like that
If you start having trouble with it smelling add more of the brown to it. That's all you have to do turning
It's very important because it creates heat and decomposition of the soul
so turning it with a fork or you know with
Whatever, you've got even a shovel will do but this we use our tractor in the dead of winter
You'll see heat rising from it and you'll know that you have a great working composting bin
The other thing is we get a lot of deer
So we'll put our deer carcasses in it and they decompose you're really quickly here in the south
And as long as we keep it turning we don't have any problem with rodents and things like that coming just like with your kitchen
Composter. You don't want a lot of fat in it. You don't want a lot of fat in your big composting bin the benefits of
Composting and why everyone should do it is that when you have a garden this is going to be like black gold
This is what is black gold. You're using all of your scraps you use everything
in a compost pile to make
Nutrient-rich soil that's going to make your plants better. It's going to make you healthier because the plants are going to be healthier
It's going to keep moisture in the soil and it's going to help you not to have diseases in
Your plants you put this compost this black gold in your garden and you're gonna have a super garden
It doesn't get any better than that for more info check out gamandgarden.com and thanks for watching. I'm Stacy Lynn
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Crested Gecko Tank Makeover | Creating A Bioactive Vivarium For My Crested Gecko! - Duration: 3:49.
hey y'all welcome back mandy with my hectic life pets where we talk about all
things pet and pet related and today I am redoing my Krusty gecko Brax tank so
of course I already pulled all of the ornaments and everything out of the tank
so now I'm gonna go ahead and just add in my false bottom and my substrate
barrier that I already cut to size now I did leave a little bit of an edge so
when I add in the substrate it will not be able to leak into the false bottom as
easily so and I'm gonna add my EBG and my coconut fiber substrate and I wanted
to build this up to where it will be higher up in the back to kind of
showcase the plants and everything in the tank a little bit better
now I'm going to go ahead and add in my vines which I am going to try and shape
so that he'll have lots of different areas that he can kind of climb all over
now I'm adding in an air plant that I got that I already attached you a small
piece of wood and a fat onea plant that I'm gonna put in the back I think that
the pink color and the photo nia is gonna look really cool I also got an
African violet to put towards the front and then of course I got a bunch of
poles that I'm going to be putting in here that eventually will hopefully grow
up the vine and look really cool I'm gonna go ahead and give the tank a
really good spray down crested geckos tend to like their humidity levels
around 80% so I got to make sure that everything is nice and moist I'm gonna
go ahead and add in my spring tails and then I'm gonna put in a bunch of leaf
litter and try not to bury my plants in it of course gotta add back in his water
bowl and give the tank one more good spray down for good measure
I gotta go ahead and just clean up the little mess that I made with the
substrates now I did go ahead and add back in my fake vines for now until the
Popo starts to grow in just to give him a little bit more extra space to be able
to hide and feel more secure in his tank all in all I really like the way the
tank turned out so far and now I am gonna go ahead and order some isopods
online to also add into the tank later but I am pretty happy with how this is
looking and Brack seems really happy with it too
so far so that's all for today's video if you liked it please give it a thumbs
up and subscribe to my channel where I post new videos every week thanks for
watching guys bye
you
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7 Powerful Realtor Tips - For Sale By Owner (FSBO) - Duration: 16:46.
Hi Everyone, Stephan Gauthier here Ottawa Realtor and I'm here today to talk to
you about a very important topic many of you you're gonna think about doing when
you're selling your home and that is selling it on your own so actually
taking care of your own home sale rather than hiring a realtor and today with
that in mind I'm gonna go through some steps in terms of tips for you should
you decide to sell on your own to make that process very smooth for you and for
other Realtors. Now you might be asking why would a Realtor take the time to put
together a video and provide tips on how I should sell my own home well it's
pretty simple. I'm a big fan of educating my clients and educating the public at
large. I'm also a huge fan of efficiency so if you know how to do this if you
want to do it and these tips will help you, great! You're not not only going to
do it better, you're gonna have a far greater respect for Realtors in terms of
the difficulty and the amount of work required to sell your h ome plus
ultimately if you can save some money fantastic. If you're gonna sell on your
own chances are you're gonna do it anyway regardless of this video but if
you end up going through these steps and you decide you know what there's a
little bit too much or maybe I should leave it up to a realtor, a professional,
an expert to take care of this then by all means if you do give me a call, shoot
me a text, an email. I would be happy to talk to you about it go through those
details with you to tell you what that really looks like so let's jump right
into it step 1 get yourself a lockbox.
Drive order home depot drive over to Lowe's, whichever one's closer even Home
Hardware may have them get yourself a lockbox combination lockbox that hooks
onto your door get a spare key put that spare key in there you're good
to go. Kind of looks like something like this pretty straightforward you open
that up you got a code slap that in, you're good to go the reason why you
want this is that you want to make your home easily accessible you don't want to
be there when you're what actually having a showing against
popular belief to companies that are responsible for for sale by owner
transactions, you really should step out of the home you should leave the realtor
with their client alone go through their home provide their own kind of feedback
and chat with each other without you being at home. If you are in the home
that will be really to your detriment you're not going to be providing the
realtor or client with any more information than you should have already
put into your listing so there's no purpose in you being there. Really
it's just going to add to the level of anxiety or uncomfort for that buyer
rather than actually help you with the sale of your home so leave your house
put a lockbox on there make it easy for agents to access it and just trust that
they are professionals, they are trustworthy they're not going in your
home to fiddle around or steal anything. They're there to sell a home
and they are bound by a strict code of ethics obviously by law as well so you
could trust that if a Realtor enters your home they're going to treat it with
respect they should leave card you know depending on your instructions
as well on what they should be doing but don't be afraid to let them have the
roam of the home on their time.
Step two, answer your phone
you have now taken on an entirely new task which is pretty close to 24/7 so
answering your phone, answering your text messages and answering emails is going
to be vital and how fast you respond to these things is going to be extremely
important to making sure you capitalize on showing requests so I'll give you an
example if an agent looking at booking seven homes which is pretty common on a
very busy day with an eager buyer. If your home is is one of seven that is
unavailable so you can't be reached or you don't reach that agent back within a
reasonable amount of time guess what you just lost out
they've proceeded with the other six homes likely one of those homes ended up
being that buyers dream home and unfortunately you missed out. Your home
is now remaining on the market longer than it should because it hadn't had the
chance to to have a buyer walk through because you were unable to answer your
phone either because you're in meetings you have another
you're likely if you're retired fantastic probably not an issue but for
most of us who still work regular hours or extended hours depending if you're a
business owner. Having the second career to manage is going to be a lot so I warn
you ahead of time be prepared for your phone and your emails to be having to be dealt with quite quickly.
Step 3, if you're going to do this do it right take
advantage of a website a landing page a designated location basically online
where all of the information about your home is located so whether that be a
full engaging description along with 30 40 50 photos I mean certainly you can
depend on the MLS to give you that exposure and a lot of these companies
that provide you with these for sale by owner opportunities will limit that
ability will limit how much material you can provide so don't despair you know
take a look online there are countless options in terms of landing pages
websites many of them are free just involves your time and effort and
learning in terms of what that looks like you could post all the photos you
can even get yourself a custom domain or URL so you know 123johnstreet.com
and that will be vital. Not only will that be important to showcase your home
and all of its glory but it will be important to drive traffic and people
buyers to your home to see it so you're really stepping up your game and
engaging buyers on a far greater level than most people selling their own home would.
Step 4, with what I just mentioned in regards to
landing pages and a website you should absolutely be ready to spend
marketing dollars. What does that look like well you're going to want to spend
some money on professional photos. Do not go in there with your iPhone or your
samsung or whatever you have or somebody you know that is passionate about
Photography really just spend $100 to $150 a dedicated real estate photography
company will come in they will dedicate the time to your home take the best
shots the best angles the best lighting exposure everything about your home will
be well taken care of super high quality photos you might even
offer videography so videography can be anywhere from two to four hundred
dollars maybe not necessary depending on the market you're in I mean if you're
looking at luxury listing yes absolutely spend the money necessary for
videography. With that you're gonna want to then spend money on advertising and
marketing online so you have a landing page you have a website you have
professional photos you might even have a video. Nobody's going to go to any of
these places if you don't spend money on advertising on Facebook, on Google
perhaps even on Kijiji you can post this information on your Facebook page your
personal page I mean most people on your personal page are probably not buying
but they can share this amongst themselves that's free. You could post
this to Facebook Buy/Sell groups also free you're really gonna get the most
value if you put together a business page pretty straightforward it's free
but ultimately it will allow you to spend money on sponsored ads targeted
detailed ads targeting certain demographics of the area and for
potential buyers for your home so don't be afraid to spend some money in fact
most agents when listing a property probably are spending anywhere from 50
to even 500 plus dollars on ads alone that's not even counting print material
I'm talking straight online marketing.On top of that you have your photos you
also have your videography so really consider this in terms of savings on
doing on your own really you're gonna be allocating a good portion of money
toward that in order to drum up business in order to bring buyers to your home and in order to sell it quickly
Step 5. Step 5 is very important for a number of
reasons and it's about Commission so you've jumped into this with an
attempt to you know save thousands of dollars which is good on you
Congrats, the important part here is to make what you're paying in terms of a
commission to a buyer's agent one hundred percent clear you don't want to
leave that out in the open as you know to be discussed or to be negotiated or call
the seller to confirm again a lot of the companies out there that allow you to
sell your home on MLS for a flat fee don't make it clear in terms of the
commission that you're offering so you're gonna get calls you're gonna get
messages and emails asking for this and again a lot of these companies I've
heard from countless people where they believe that it's negotiable based on
the offer. Don't make this mistake absolutely do not do it. Decide what
you're willing to pay an agent from a buyer's perspective whether it be 2%, 2.5%
maybe even 3% if you want to stand a part but do it regardless of the offer
so if you're offering your home for $500,000 and somebody comes to you and
offers you for $480k, you're still offering 2%. If they offer you $510k, it's 2% if they
offer you for $450k, doesn't matter they can offer you a dollar you don't have to
sell your home to them keep this in mind but what's most important is that the
Commission is that no point negotiable. It's clear going into it what that
buyer's agents gonna get paid for their work and it's no longer a point of
contention during negotiations so absolutely important make sure if you're
on MLS with a company that specializes in for sale by owners that you
direct them to clearly indicate the payment that you are offering and I
strongly encourage you to offer at least 2% because anything less is really gonna
you know it's gonna be to your detriment in terms of what other listings are
offering so in that scenario not that buyers will be prevented from seeing
your house but there may be a reluctance there in terms of that agent you know
standard Commission is 2.5% and if a buyer is working with that agent the
expectations is that agent get paid 2.5 if you're only offering 1.5 that
probably won't you know ruin your deal but it's it's a consideration that
the difference between what you're paying and what the agent is expecting
will then have to come out of the buyer so most buyers will not want to do that
they will not want to take care of that gap in terms of commission and I
would expect most agents would not fight them on that but you know be as fair as
you feel you can be knowing that you are already saving thousands and thousands
and thousands of dollars so I strongly encourage you to do it offer 2%
at least just so you're amongst everyone else 2% is pretty common 2.5% is
is even more common but again no expectation that you do that just offer something.
Step six. You decided to list your home January 1st. At that time you
spoke with the company that you hired to help you with this process and they gave
you some comparables they gave you some stats
you know what's active on the market what's sold that's comparable to your
home perhaps they've decided that your home is anywhere from $480,000 to $520,000. You
being very reasonable decide you know what let's go $500,000 it's perfect it's
right on the the threshold of that value and you don't sell so two weeks, 30 days,
45 days maybe even 60 days goes by you have still not sold your home now what's
very important during this entire process is that you keep yourself up to
date what's been happening likely other homes have sold why did they sell why
have you not sold. Have there have been new homes on the market? What's the average
sell time? What's the average price for that comparable home? What this will do
is help you stay up to date with what's going on in the market because the
market changes and shifts quite rapidly it doesn't take six months or a year for
that market to change and if other comparable or even superior homes are
selling for ten twenty thirty thousand dollars less than what you're asking
well then you will stagnate your home will remain on the market longer than it
should and ultimately when you do sell you will sell it for far less than you
could have achieved how you stayed on the pulse and lowered your price
accordingly so be aware of that I mean price is not the only thing to
consider here I mean you're gonna you're going to be doing some extensive
marketing likely your location is of
consideration as well if your location is great your show-ability of the home
is fantastic and it's still not selling then it is price and you should be aware
of that you should be asking you know that company that's provided you with
that information to provide you with more up-to-date informatio. What's been
happening now in the last 30 days? My home hasn't sold. So keep yourself up to
date research regularly in order to get what you want out of this.
Step 7. I left this last because of all the things that I discussed today the main
reason you're doing this is to save money. You want to save money. You
consider yourself capable and more likely you are capable of selling your
own home. Really evaluate the savings here now let's go back to the
$500,000 example you're selling your home for $500,000.
%5 of that is $25000 plus tax so in this
scenario you're really immediately looking to save half that do not
consider that $25000 savings because the likelihood of
attracting a buyer that does not have an agent representing them is extremely low
and that agent being in business to help their clients and ultimately to make a
living will expect to get paid as well so the expectations there that 5% is
your standard commission is it gonna do it yourself
remove the listing portion which is 2.5% typically because that's the
role that you've taken on now. That leaves you with the remaining portion
which is to be distributed to the buyer's agent so on 25k you're looking
to save $12,500 is what you're looking to save, minus all of
your fees associated with your Lockbox you might have a different sign in the
yard potentially if you're going with a special company that specializes in it
great they'll have their own you're looking at your hundreds of dollars
towards photography/videography depending on the extent that you push
forward on that as well as marketing so that could range it can be fifty dollars
and you're successful or it could be a thousand over the
a course of perhaps three months your landing page, your website, maybe your
domain again don't forget the time that you're putting into this so what is time
worth to you? Are you a busy individual with a busy
family and it's difficult to answer your phone 24/7?
and I don't say literally 24/7 but you know somebody might call you at nine
o'clock at night to book a showing be prepared for that and did the savings
that I'm talking about here the $10k-$11k after you minus your fees is it worth it? and
is it worth it considering you may depending on the process here with these
tips you may not get the true full value of what you could have achieved if
you've allowed an expert to do it. If you're gonna do it yourself know what
that looks like know the pros, know the cons decide for
yourself if that 10-11 thousand dollars is worth saving because you're
going to turn your life slightly upside down for that period of time until you
sell your home so this has been a great conversation I hope you have you've
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Victoria Beckham, David Had Big Fight At Royal Wedding, Headed For Split? - Duration: 3:48.
Victoria Beckham, David Had Big Fight At Royal Wedding, Headed For Split?
Victoria Beckham and David Beckham are headed for a split after getting into a big fight at the royal wedding earlier this month? That's the claim in one of this week's tabloids. Gossip Cop can exclusively set the record straight.
"Posh & Becks Epic Wedding Blow-Up!" reads the latest cover of the Australian version of OK! The accompanying article says the former Spice Girl was in a bad mood at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding because she and her husband had been arguing in the weeks leading up to it.
A so-called "source" tells the magazine, "They actually had been fighting so much in the run up to the wedding that they almost didn't go." The unreliable outlet doesn't mention what the supposed animosity was all about.
The tabloid further contends that the couple started bickering as soon as they got to the church because the first thing David did was compliment Amal Clooney's outfit.
"That went over like a lead balloon," says the questionable insider, who goes on to say that Victoria became "furious" when she discovered they weren't seated in the VIP area of the ceremony.
"She totally blamed David for this," says the seemingly phony tipster. "[She said,] 'We are like unwelcome black sheep at this wedding and it's your fault!" The alleged source concludes that the spouses of nearly 20 years will split sooner than later.
"David always promised he would wait until their kids all left home to divorce Posh, but I think he will quietly move out and just live apart from her for a while," says the supposed insider.
This bogus story is based on information from an anonymous and untraceable "source," but the couple's own spokesperson tells Gossip Cop on the record there's no truth to any of it.
We're assured the spouses never had any sort of argument at the royal wedding, nor are they headed for a split. In fact, Victoria herself described the royal wedding as "the best day.".
Another aspect of the magazine's article that's provably false is the notion that the former pop star complained about not being seated in the ceremony's VIP section.
Earlier this week, Victoria revealed she sat in the front row at Prince Harry and Markle's wedding. It doesn't get much more VIP than that.
This bogus story may have been written because some people on social media criticized the former Spice Girl for not smiling in photos taken at the nuptials.
Victoria responded to the backlash with a Instagram photo of herself posing stoically, along with the caption, "When you're smiling on the inside…" Regardless of the reason for the tabloid publishing its bogus account of events, a rep for the Beckhams confirms it's all fabricated.
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