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Due diligence is key to successful real estate investing

Verifying data, looking for more information is an important process

June 21, 2012

One important skill to develop as a real estate investor is the process of due diligence.Due diligence is the in-depth research you will do on a property you've contracted to buy. Your purchase-and-sale agreement should provide for a period a

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June 21, 2012

June 18 / Employment here dipsAbout 204,800 people held nonagricultural wage and salary jobs in the Spokane area in May, down 700 jobs from the May 2011 level, but up 400 from this April, preliminary state figures show. Preliminary results from

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June 21, 2012

Meetings & EventsLaunchPad Inland Northwest will hold its June Women's Resource Partnership event on Tuesday, June 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 12309 E. Mirabeau Parkway, in Spokane Valley. Monique Cotton, director of community relations a

South Hill physical therapy practice builds office

$2 million project has fitness areas and pool at Southeast Blvd. site

June 7, 2012

Treva Lind

Physical Therapy Associates PS, of Spokane, recently broke ground on a $2 million building that will house its practice on Spokane's South Hill. Jeff Fenton, a co-owner and physical therapist, says the 11,300-square-foot structure, which is to a

$8 million-plus VA hospital addition slated

$8 million-plus project will provide more space for endoscopy, support

June 7, 2012

Mike McLean

Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center expects this summer to start construction of a second-floor addition that will involve two portions of its main hospital building. The addition is to include a total of 15,000 square feet of new floor The

The New Normal: Strong skills often trump a degree in job market

Jobs are slowly returning for financial, tech-talented and some other specialists

June 7, 2012

Treva Lind

Regional economists who monitor the Inland Northwest job market say landing positions amid lingering high unemployment has become more about marketable skills that transfer into higher-demand jobs than about the academic degree you might having a a

Post Falls auto dealership changes hands

Company to key in on Chrysler; Findlay picks up third North Idaho facility

June 7, 2012

Mike McLean

Midway Automotive Group Inc. has sold its Nissan auto dealership in Post Falls to Henderson, Nev.-based Findlay Automotive Group, and plans to focus on its recently expanded and remodeled Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram dealership next door, says Joe marks

Shoppers take on mob mentality

Businesses here reap benefits of new buy-local trend

June 7, 2012

Chey Scott

An emerging, national scheme intended to boost patronage and sales at locally-owned, small businesses is starting to take hold in the Spokane area, with at least three "cash mobs" having taken place here in recent months. Cash mobs have been by

Spokane Valley manufacturer Wagstaff expands

Spokane Valley company's international customer base grows

June 7, 2012

Chey Scott

Wagstaff Inc., the big, 66-year-old Spokane Valley-based maker of aluminum-casting equipment that's sold to aluminum producers worldwide, recently began work on two expansion projects at its facilities here that, when completed, will add 57,000 to

Look to wheat industry for investment opportunities

Significant contributor to regional economy is to grow in coming years

June 7, 2012

Personal Investing

"O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain." America, the BeautifulWhile written in the early 1900s about a trip to Pikes Peak, I think Katherine Bates, the author of the to