The professional relationships between the owners and managers of a company will always be essential to business success, especially in the real estate industry. However, in the age of sophisticated communications technology, the face-to-face business meeting is used less and less for communication between business partners. The cost of teleconference and videoconference technology is cheaper […]
A working-class family is wrongfully evicted from their rental homes and may lose their jobs. A neighboring landowner and his shrewd agent try to stop the sharp-dealing landlord from destroying property values with industrial air pollution. Can they successfully escalate conflict without unintended fallout? This is the subject of Alfred Hitchcock’s early film, “The Skin Game” […]
Whether your business has a staff of 2 or 200, protecting the business from any kind of fraud, including identity theft, requires a team effort. For businesses that have databases with personal identifiers such as names, addresses, social security numbers and dates of birth, the security of that data poses a special risk to both […]
Customers sometimes attempt to use identity fraud on a landlord or finance company. For example, last summer I attempted to rent out a condominium over the internet. I am not a realtor. I received an inquiry from “Ed” on behalf of his friend. At the showing, I was surprised to meet not only Ed and his […]
On February 28, 2012, Brandon Lee Price was charged with wire fraud in connection with his unauthorized use of Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s debit card. Price is a U.S. Army deserter who used Allen’s debit card to attempt over $15,000.00 in transactions. He obtained the card by calling Allen’s bank and changing the address and […]