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Jack Krohn
Member since 23rd May 2006
Occupation: self employed
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21st August 2008
Listening devices and hidden cameras used to be the province of spy movies like James Bond stuff. The FBI, CIA and other assorted governmental agencies have been using them of course for years too. The information gathered by these devices from the basis ...
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28th May 2008
Last week I got a call from a car dealership who wanted to catch an employee who had been stealing from customers' cars. After a short discussion on what they had in mind they decided on the spy cam water bottle hidden camera.
It had to be something th...
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28th May 2008
Just about anyone who owns a brick and mortar business knows the vulnerability from burglars at night. No matter if it is in strip mall or a free standing building, night time brings out the worst in the bad guys. It is the time that burglaries occur.
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07th April 2008
In another life I used to own a restaurant. I'd half jokingly say that only three groups of people tried to steal from me: employees, customers and suppliers-everyone else was honest. The sad part about that joke was it was true and no joke at all.
Th...
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25th March 2008
Did you ever watch the Gene Hackman 1998 thriller "Enemy of the State"? Gene plays a disenfranchised ex NSA/CIA-er who gets roped into helping a young attorney played by Will Smith whose life is going down the tubes courtesy of Jon Voight who plays a corr...
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17th March 2008
Commercials meant to entice you for your mortgage business are everywhere. When you start looking for a loan where do you start? Unless you know someone in the business that you trust I would start by doing some independent homework.
Real estate agent...
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04th March 2008
Over Forty years ago, long before the current age of terrorism, Charles and Eleanor Garrett invented the metal detector to find metal objects buried in the ground "buried treasure" if you will.
Now the Garrett metal detectors are used for a vastly diff...
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23rd January 2008
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year or so you have no doubt heard of the "sub prime" scandal. Almost on a daily basis one story or another has hit the headlines making it impossible to miss.
As the story continues to develop, the...
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14th November 2007
There are several things you can do to improve your FICO score: some are obvious, some not so obvious. It takes a lot longer to repair your credit than it does to ruin it. If you have questionable credit NOW is the time to get going at fixing it. Lenders ...
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14th November 2007
Home Equity Loans are like any other product you purchase. You have to be a savvy buyer to get the best deal. Home Equity Loans present a slightly different twist than most purchases however because your home is the collateral. Your home is at risk. There...
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25th September 2007
The sub prime market for home mortgages is a hot bed of predatory practices. These types of lenders prey on the elderly, borrowers with poor credit who have few options, and less educated and non English speaking customers. They give the entire industry i...
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20th September 2007
Millions of Americans are up to their ears in debt. They struggle every month just to meet the minimum payment which just prolongs the debt. Credit cards have high finance fees. Hence, it is difficult to pay down balances. In most cases, the minimum payme...
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10th August 2007
When reality sinks in and mortgage holders realize how much interest they are paying on their home loan over the life of the loan, the knee jerk temptation may be to prepay the loan one way or another. Before you do make sure you think about these importa...
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07th August 2007
Building a good credit score is a long term process. As they say a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. Beware of quick fixes. There are none except for the quick fix of getting into your wallet by way of a scam and there are some out t...
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24th July 2007
I remember back in the good old days when things were not so rosy for me- a couple of bankruptcies will do that to you-when I couldn't borrow a cold. Bad credit is always an obstacle when trying to borrow money or get a credit card. You will be faced with...
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