Japan Foreclosed Property 2011 -2012 - Buy this 4th edition report!
Are you aware that you can buy a house & lot in Japan for as little as $10,000. Surprising but true! Japan is a large market, with a plethora of cheap properties up for auction by the courts. Few other Western nations offer such cheap property so close to major infrastructure. Japan is unique in this respect, and it offers such a different life experience, which also makes it special. Some property is in rural areas subject to depopulation, but there are plenty of properties in the cities too. I bought a dormitory 1hr from Tokyo for just $US30,000.
You can view foreclosed properties listed for as little as $US10,000 in Japan thanks to depopulation and a culture that is geared towards working for the state. I bought foreclosed properties in Japan and now I reveal all in our expanded 200-page report. The information you need to know, strategies to apply, where to get help, and the tools to use. We even help you avoid the tsunami and nuclear risks since I was a geologist/mining finance analyst in a past life. Check out the "feedback" in our blog for stories of success by customers of our previous reports.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Malware solution for Android phones
Friday, August 27, 2010
Stories of 100 top Asian CEOs
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The 50 top inventions of 2008-9
Call it national pride, but I like the Aussie invention of the tuna breeding system. It was ranked 2nd by Time, and 15th by the people. The grandness of this technology is that many people have tried to do it, and concluded that it could not be done. It is also special because it will avoid over-fishing of natural fish species. Basically recreational fishermen around the world might once again be able to enter the seas without paying huge license fees.
I like the fact that it solves a big problem - over fishing. Also think of the jobs it will create in Australia, NZ, Argentina and South Africa. Anyway view the complete list of the technologies at Time.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
Monday, August 25, 2008
Business opportunities - anticipating future develops
1. Technology development - for instance take a look at these developments
2. Lifestyle - clearly we are looking at living or retiring in attractive locations globally
3. Personal preferences - We are rethinking our priorities rather than just accepting social or parental values. Many of us are retiring earlier overseas rather than saving up a fortune to retire in the West.
You might think that large corporations will drive a lot of these developments, but that is not always the case. Even if large capital resources are needed to develop a technology, often its small service companies who could be the ones who benefit from the technology.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
Monday, May 19, 2008
The future of geographic search - with or without Google
The opportuinity here is to link GIS information with your cell phone. This gives prospective advertisers location-specific information about you. Now this might not sound so powerful to you, but consider the opportunity to:
1. Tie your location data in with knowledge about your likes, interests, tastes, etc
2. Tie your location data in with your general need to eat and drink. Maybe you'll be walking past a restaurant and they know from your membership that you like Indian food. In that instance you receive an email offering you a discount.
This is not hard to do. There are already products which tie GPS data to you. No one has yet made a revenue model from it to my knowledge. Of course already some models of cell phones have GPS already installed. Living in Metro Manila, I'm surprised how many people actually have N90 series phones. Makes you wonder where they get the money. Thats the extent of corruption I guess. :) But rest assured there will be more GPS-enable phones and cameras on the market in future. This is powerful in several ways:
1. The opportunity for advertisers to target people based on location & website profile data
3. The opportunity for telcos to generate revenues from advertisers for their location-specific data
4. The attraction of LAN-wifi, Wimax for providing GIS info as a competitive option to cell companies
5. The attraction of GIS-based websites to sell advertising through location data.
People currently have only limited search capability through their phones. Its also fair to say that these early GPS phones are pretty crude and cumbersome. They will however bevome sleak in time. I also suggest that
VerveEarth enables users to organize the information of the internet into a virtual world where content and users have a definite place. The neat thing about VerveEarth is that its a new type of search. VerveEarth enables you to surf the net in a completely new way and discover content you didn't even know existed. Curious to know what people in the Middle East talk and read about? Just go there. You might even strike up a conversation.
Clearly the value in this type of facility is in ‘just in time’ service delivery and advertising. More and more we will be doing business on mobile applications. The last aspect of this opportunity is the possibility of telcos offering free line rental if you are open to advertising news. If this is to happen telcos will have to make their incoming messages alot more enticing than they are now. Expect tunes, full colour images of some nearby restaurant, as well as other special enticements. eg. The first groups to fill the restaurant get a free beer! Of course they could also offer a web-based search as well. I think that car-based GPS might be a thing of the past. The other possible competition in this market might be GPS. It cannot be forgotten that GPS used by telcos is 'Geographic' NOT 'Global' Positioning System. Telcos use towers rather than satellites, so this will have implications for global reach and competition. But thats another story for another galaxy. Yeh I know.... I didnt need to say it.
Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Setting up a backpackers in Japan
1. Lack of competition
2. Availability of the Japan Rail pass concession to foreigners
3. Availability of VERY CHEAP foreclosed properties which provides cheap accommodation in Japan.
For more information see my post on Foreclosed Property in Japan. There is a range of locations that suit a backpackers - coasta foreclosed properties, properties in rural areas, ski villages, onsens, and city suburbs. Everything is close to some commercial centre in Japan.
My idea was to establish a web portal to provide a gateway to internet-based bookings. If anyone is interested, let me know. Houses in Japan rent for Y50-60,000 per month ($150/week or $20/night) for a whole place, but I think we could charge $20-30/night per person depending on the location. Some people might only want to rent out for a season. Obviously cheaper for longer rentals.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
Friday, April 25, 2008
Real estate agents of the future
1. Nice to you
2. Treat you with respect
3. They go out of their way for you
4. They show an interest in you that goes beyond the sale - beyond the commission
5. They dont treat you like a tire kicker
6. They how sonething about the local property market
7. They know something about the economy
8. They have information (support) to bring you up to speed, information in your language
9. They have local data - just numbers mind you
10. They have visual presentations of data.
You want to know the future of business, well here is it. It does not lie with real estate franchises. They should be doing this, but they are too comfy in their entrenched ologopolies. No the future is where some smart real estate agent starts designing tools for the customer. That agent or programmer is going to be showing developing tools which bring data to life. A tool that turns those facts in databases into graphical mapping images, charts, pie charts. This will increase the useability and utility of agents and ensure they retain customers. Any takers?
There are a number of appealing aspects to using charts. The thing is that its far easier to create charts in excel and just copy and paste them as images into Blogger or webpage. Where dynamic data is more useful is where you have dynamic data. The way I could use the dynamic data is:
1. Real estate prices in different markets
2. Share prices for the stocks I like
3. Share indices
Here is the code to get you started - http://code.google.com/apis/chart/. Offered by Google, though its quite possible you will outgrow Google. Afterall everyone has access to the code. Who has the time to do it? Who is so organised and capable to oversee a programming exercise. Real estate just took on a new direction.
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Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com