Sentences with phrase «doing local comps»

Not exact matches

House would probably appraise for 180 based on some local sales and advice I got from a few realtors who sent me comps (did nt get official appraisal because $ 400)

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.

If instead, you've done a bunch of work, and usually it's working with a mentor, whether formally or informally, and you've met people who are in that practice, and you read all the blogs that work comp lawyers read, and you maybe have gone to some section meetings for the local Bar Association, and you've done a bunch of other stuff, then when you write your cover letter, you say, «Dear John, you know it's funny, I just talked to your partner three weeks ago, and he actually recommended that I apply for this job.