I finally updated my personal site. It's http://www.michaelnehring.com.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Make money online
I've created another website. This time around I compiled a list of local consumer research companies that do focus groups. You can sign up with these companies to participate, and if you are selected for a study, you typically get between $50 and $200, depending on the study. I have a nation-wide list with hundreds of locations. You can check it out at http://makemoney.michaelshowto.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Bank Owned Houses in Wake County
I'm currently working on creating a real estate website, and I've got one aspect of the website to be production-ready.
There are many sites that advertise heavily claiming to give you information about foreclosures (for example, RealtyTrac.com). However, these websites usually require you to become a member, which costs ridiculous amounts and they have a reputation for terrible customer service (not canceling memberships even when asked) and for having out of date or simply incorrect data.
Now, with a little bit of searching, one can usually find out if a given house is bank-owned by searching public records. I set up a database search program to go through all public records in Wake County, NC and find a list of bank owned houses. I then sub-categorized these houses (by city, cost, size, government owned, etc) and mapped them using the Google Maps API. You can see the result here:
http://bankowned.michaelshowto.com/
Enjoy!
There are many sites that advertise heavily claiming to give you information about foreclosures (for example, RealtyTrac.com). However, these websites usually require you to become a member, which costs ridiculous amounts and they have a reputation for terrible customer service (not canceling memberships even when asked) and for having out of date or simply incorrect data.
Now, with a little bit of searching, one can usually find out if a given house is bank-owned by searching public records. I set up a database search program to go through all public records in Wake County, NC and find a list of bank owned houses. I then sub-categorized these houses (by city, cost, size, government owned, etc) and mapped them using the Google Maps API. You can see the result here:
http://bankowned.michaelshowto.com/
Enjoy!
New How-To Website
For a while I was writing for eHow, but in a recent effort to stop people from posting spam How-To's, they set up a robot to disable the accounts of spammers. Anyhow, as those of you who use e-mail spam filters know, sometimes spam makes it to the inbox and sometimes good messages get put in the spam folder. So, eHow mistaken blocked my account. (Maybe the same thing has happened to you.) You get this message:
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member_service@ehow.com.
The first thing to note that is that the email address they give is wrong. It should be member.service@ehow.com.
Update: they have since fixed the email address. The error is now:
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member.service@ehow.com.
And since they a probably dealing with hundreds or thousands of mistakenly disabled accounts, it's taking them a while. They are currently in the process of manually reviewing my account. Anyhow, I decided in that time to set up my own how-to website while I wait for them to re-enable my account. The website is:
http://www.michaelshowto.com/
I've put up most of my articles, excluding some of my most popular articles that I am going to refine and put up in the next few days. While my site won't have the scope of eHow, it should be fun nonetheless.
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member_service@ehow.com.
The first thing to note that is that the email address they give is wrong. It should be member.service@ehow.com.
Update: they have since fixed the email address. The error is now:
Your account has been disabled. If you think eHow made a mistake by disabling youraccount, please email us at member.service@ehow.com.
And since they a probably dealing with hundreds or thousands of mistakenly disabled accounts, it's taking them a while. They are currently in the process of manually reviewing my account. Anyhow, I decided in that time to set up my own how-to website while I wait for them to re-enable my account. The website is:
http://www.michaelshowto.com/
I've put up most of my articles, excluding some of my most popular articles that I am going to refine and put up in the next few days. While my site won't have the scope of eHow, it should be fun nonetheless.
Upstairs project - Done!
I got my permits for the upstairs project on 7/11/2007 - before Lisa was born. It took a lot of work and a long time, but on 3/27/2009, I finally got the last inspection approved. The next day I got the certificate of occupancy in the mail. So, now we have a huge house (1123 square feet - not actually huge) with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It's nice to have the project done with!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Video for contest entry
My brother, Blin, created a video for entry into a contest. Part of the score is the number of YouTube views, and it's a really good video, so you can see it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CAWu_XbztY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CAWu_XbztY
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Upstairs project
I finally got started on it! The big one! The upstairs project:-). I will be converting out 240 square foot upstairs area into a master suite (if anything that small can be called a master suite). The permits cost $280, but they were issued the same day (20 minutes later - and the people working there were very friendly). There are a total of 9 inspections I think (3 for framing, 2 plumbing, 2 electrical, 2 HVAV/mechanical).
However, words are boring. Pictures are fun. Click here for pictures (this album will be updated as the project progresses.).
However, words are boring. Pictures are fun. Click here for pictures (this album will be updated as the project progresses.).
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