Sent them emails, text messages made offers and essentially focused on people who would come into contact with sellers: agents, brokers, financial consultants, ministers, friends, family, small business owners, even a funeral home owner.

It turned out that Lee Arnold is an ordained minister, so on Sunday morning of the 3-day seminar in Austin, he held a church service and preached a very convincing sermon.

But it appears all of that could just have been posturing to gain an advantage ahead of these final talks.The Details.China’s Vice Minister of Commerce announced agreements on:Pausing tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese imports,export controls on things like microchips, tariff suspensions, agricultural (aka soybean) purchases, anti-fentanyl measures, anti-drug cooperation, TikTok operations, rare earth minerals, (as an aside, these minerals are not rare.

Thank Yo, Minister Anthony /   

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is discussing trade collaboration with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, focusing on countering U.S. tariffs set for August 1.

The interloper turned out to be the mother of the decedent who claimed her son and the seller had been "married" by her brother, the husband's uncle, who was a "minister" but not authorized under Florida law to conduct weddings. 

The Finance Minister announced steps to curb the influx of foreign capital into the Canadian Real Estate Market  (in which he really meant TO and Vancouver ... down east we are not really suffering from the influx of foreign money ... sure we lost a 50-unit deal a couple of years ago to a Chinese investor, but the property was not worth what s/he paid, so we'll see it back on the market eventually).That said, Ottawa is only removing a loophole which has allowed foreigners to purchase a residence in Canada, claim it as their principal residence and then benefit from the personal residence {captial gains} tax exemption when they sell.  

I am a Ordained Minister through the online Universal Life Church.

Horror #4: we rented a 3/2, 1120’ SFR to a minister, his wife, and 4 home schooled children.  

"British Columbia Finance Minister Carole James announced measures targeting foreign buyers and speculators in the first budget since her government was elected on a pledge to make housing more affordable for residents of Canada’s Pacific Coast province.""