Robert R. Rowley PS

Attorney at Law


Author: Robert R. Rowley PS

Talk To Your Real Estate Broker About The Value Of Your House Before Solely Relying Upon Zillow

Talk To Your Real Estate Broker About The Value Of Your House Before Solely Relying Upon Zillow

 

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15 Signs You’re an Entrepreneur | Entrepreneur.com

15 Signs You’re an Entrepreneur | Entrepreneur.com

Pressed to describe the stereotypical entrepreneur, which words would you use? Passionate? Dedicated? Optimistic? Sure, those apply. But insecure and troublemaker are more accurate, according to ‘treps who know a success when they see one. Do the following traits, characteristics and quirks describe you? Well then, you might be an entrepreneur (at heart, if not […]

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15 Statistics That Should Change The Business World – But Haven’t | Colin S. | LinkedIn

15 Statistics That Should Change The Business World – But Haven’t | Colin S. | LinkedIn

It still surprises me, even in this day and age, how many people still need convincing that improving the Customer Experience will generate revenue and save costs. As I read this great blog the other day, which highlights many stats from reputable sources clearly showing that improving your Customer Experience drives revenues and save costs, […]

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WHY YOU NEED TERMS & CONDITIONS AND A PRIVACY POLICY ON YOUR WEBSITE

WHY YOU NEED TERMS & CONDITIONS AND A PRIVACY POLICY ON YOUR WEBSITE

#465060791 / gettyimages.com Any business or other entity that operates a website should take the time to draft a set of terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) that will govern the relationship between end-users and the subject website operator in connection with the website and its various offerings.  The main purpose of the privacy policy […]

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Looking for Money For Your Business? Checkout Peer-To-Peer Lending

Looking for Money For Your Business? Checkout Peer-To-Peer Lending

  An intriguing model.  I know of at least two of my clients who have been able to borrow (and repay) the repair funds they needed to complete a flipped project.  They used standard private money for acquisition costs and then Lending Club for the repair costs (as many private lenders will not lend repair […]

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A Look at Income Equality/Inequality, Hour by Hour – Wall St. Journal

A Look at Income Equality/Inequality, Hour by Hour – Wall St. Journal

A new study by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, breaks down Labor Department data on hourly earnings to show income disparity even at the level of hourly wages. Someone earning $8.38 an hour is in the 10th percentile, meaning they earn more than 10% of workers, but less than 90%. At the 50th […]

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Looking For Money For Your Business? With Alternative Lenders, Flexibility and Speed Come at a Cost – WSJ

Looking For Money For Your Business? With Alternative Lenders, Flexibility and Speed Come at a Cost – WSJ

 Over the past few years, conventional banks have tightened their standards and left more small firms out in the cold. Sometimes the borrowers’ personal credit history is less than stellar, or they’re looking for deals that are too small for most banks to consider. Enter alternative lenders—a booming group of online firms aimed at small […]

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For Email Newsletters, a Death Greatly Exaggerated – NYTimes.com

For Email Newsletters, a Death Greatly Exaggerated – NYTimes.com

Email newsletters, an old-school artifact of the web that was supposed to die along with dial-up connections, are not only still around, but very much on the march. In addition to the long-running morning must-haves like Mike Allen’s political tip sheet Playbook, other topics and approaches are gaining momentum across publishing. Quartz, Atlantic Media’s smart […]

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Shakespeare Says ‘Lets Kill All the Lawyers,’ but Some Attorneys Object – WSJ

Shakespeare Says ‘Lets Kill All the Lawyers,’ but Some Attorneys Object – WSJ

For those English majors and late night comedians. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” It is that so few people see it his way: The Bard wasn’t knocking lawyers, much less endorsing a litigicidal rampage, he says, but defending them. The line comes from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2” and is […]

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Average Annual Wage in Four Largest Employing Sectors

Average Annual Wage in Four Largest Employing Sectors

Why is this important? Average annual wage by sector gives insight into the health of Spokane County’s economy. Wages and salaries form the largest component of personal income, one of the two fundamental measures of the size of a state economy. Economists typically tie private sector wage growth to labor productivity growth. Wages vary by […]

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