Is sms spamming popular in your country?

Q. I always get a lot of advertising sms, most of which are advertisements of newly opened restaurents, on-sale real properties and discount infomation. It's like juck email, you can get tens of such sms per day.

Do you often get these kinds of sms in your country? Is it illegal to distribute sms to ppl without their permission?

A. Yes!!
Here in Spain I get new sms EVERYDAY!!
Its mostly from my operator, Movistar.

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Do you really need a drivers license to sell real estate?

Q. My nephew really wants to be a real estate agent but he has epilepsy so he can't drive. But does a real estate agent really need to drive anymore in today's hi tech world of gadgetry? I was thinking that he could sell properties online and since he's fluent in Spanish he should focus on buyers from Spain/Latin America. What do you think os this possible?
I was thinking he can take photos and use them.

A. Though there is no requirements for a real estate agent to have a drivers license, it would be helpful if they were able to drive as to show certain clients properties and other related things necessary to complete a real estate transaction.

Where your nephew might excel in the real estate market is through relocation services. This is normally for companies that purchase houses for their executives. There are others that avail themselves to this service also.

It involves selling real estate and renting apartments and houses through pictures transmitted via the internet so as the person can get virtual picture of the property they are purchasing. There might be other services offered, however this is becoming a niche in the real estate market.

He could hire a competent photographer to take the pictures of properties for sale, download them to one of the many real estate programs. A web site with the pictures of properties for sale as well as print media would be able to advertise his properties for sale. Reliable marketing would keep him supplied with clients as well as constant referrals.

I hope this has been of some benefit to you,good luck.


"FIGHT ON"

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Where can I find a property for sale by the owner in Spain ?

Q. I would like to save some cash by buying direct. I am not sure where I want to buy yet. Would like to see what's on offer in this current climate

A. You can use a local Spanish lawyer to help you.Most speak English too.

Try searching For Sale By Owner Spain or For Sale Privately or FSBO Property for sale by owner. Plenty sites come up

Also, I read a review in a local paper recently about a new website that has a massive financial backing, so it should become big www.easyventa.com Though it's not due for release for a few weeks.

Good Luck

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Is it true that John Rolfe stole the tobacco plant/seed from the Carribean and no Native American actually?

Q. taught anyone from the Jamestown settlement to grow the seeds? I've read this 2 times on various websites but can't find the source of the info. Is this true?

A. Since Christopher Columbus wrote that the natives of San Salvador �drank smoke.� Tobacco was a HUGE hit AND completely controlled by the Spanish.
Originally consumed for its medicinal qualities, tobacco soon spread throughout the Americas. The Spanish began to grow tobacco in their American colonies and export it to the rest of Europe. Europeans quickly became addicted to tobacco.
Spain controlled the monopoly on tobacco.

In 1606 King Philip Ill of Spain decrees that tobacco may only be grown in specific locations--including Cuba, Santo Domingo, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.

Sale of tobacco to foreigners is punishable by death.

In John Rolfe's personal diary he recounts his "ILLEGAL DRUG DEAL".
And that is exactly what it was.
Rolfe located a Dutch drug dealer who was willing to sell him the dope.

Isn't this hilarious?

This probably happened in Trinidad. He stashed the illegal plants, and head to Virginia.

But point of fact, tobacco was considered a medical "drug" and Rolfe purchased stolen property from a thief that was tightly controlled by the Spanish Crown.

Spanish law prohibited the selling of plants to foreigners ..... Rolfe stole them.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:b7WX25Eg59cJ:www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History17.html+spanish+tobacco+monopoly+in+new+world+john+rolfe&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://www.illinoissmokersrights.com/tobacco_timeline_chap_3.html

http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/tobacco-the-early-history-of-a-new-world-crop.htm

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I am looking for blogs on property for sale in valencia, spain?

Q. Anyone seen any blogs on property for sale in valencia, spain or xativa valencia spain, i am interested to read them.

A. BLOG? YOU MEAN SITE TO LOOK FOR PLACES? HERES ONE THAT I FOUND HELPFUL WHILE SEARCHING FOR APARTMENTS WHEN I LIVED THERE 2YEARS AGO: http://valencia.loquo.com/es_es
TRY JUST TYPING STUFF IN ON GOOGLE (IN SPANISH WOULD BE EASIER, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF ENGLISH PAGES ALSO)

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Where can I find international schools in Spain?

Q. We want to move to Spain. Any good websites detailing international schools in Spain?

A. For full details of the educational system in Spain (including details of International Schools), check out:
Spanish Property Today
and
Spanish Property for Sale

http://www.spanish-property-today.com
http://www.spanish-property-for-sale.tv

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what was the economic effect of the protestant reformation?

Q. specifically how did the banning of simony, or the selling of church positions, and the sale of indulgences, of the sale of forgiveness of sin effect Europe after the Protestant reformation?

A. Simony and the selling of indulgences outside of Church authority were actually minor issues. The Catholic Church was widely popular, as evidenced especially in England and Spain. Less so in Germany and Holland. These weren't actually the names of the countries, but you get the general geography. It was the Holy Roman Empire in political control, various city-states with enormous power and factions vying with factions for control of property. Because the Church had been given so much property and money WILLINGLY by devout Catholics, it was slowly gobbling up a lot of territory. There was an anticlerical movement about that did not like any clergy because they were exempt from taxes, didn't have to do civic duties like town watch or fire detail and they were specially privileged. (Of course, the priests then as today devoted their entire lives to service to their fellow man. The depiction of a violently corrupt Catholic Church has been totally debunked by modern scholarship. Priests didn't have lives of their own, though there were some instances of problems with priests worse that simony or the selling of indulgences. The Church took care of that in time. But the economic effect of the failed Reformation came at the point of violence. Spain sent troops into the Netherlands to put down the Calvinist inssurection (heretical sects were forming based on the delusional rantings of Luther and Calvin). The imperialists who jealously wanted what the Catholic Church had mounted violent rebellion. But this was political, not theological. The Spanish were acting as "guardians" of the Catholic faith and actually vying for control of the Holy Roman Empire always. But anticlericalism in Germany was too strong to overcome. The barons and dukes there had little trouble using Luther as a populist humanistic rabblerouser. Luther didn't want that, he wanted Catholicism to bend to his will (though most of what he wrote he plagiarized from St. Augustine). But Catholicism theologically never bent to any individual will. It was always based on word-of-mouth starting with Jesus Christ, and it produced the Bible to support its original founder, not to replace Him. The technology of the printing press was the key to Luther's succcess. Just one of those things. His genius was as a propagandist, which is probably why Goebbels and Hitler used Luther's theology as the basis for the official religion of the Nazi state (not to mention Luther was a wholly anti-Semitic bigot). The barons in Germany were able to acquire much land, property and treasure from Catholic Churches they attacked and overtook. Same thing happened in other places. This had two effects. One, aristocracy gained riches from the Catholic Church, riches that had been given freely from the congregations. Two, Counter-Reformation solidified the Church and loads of Calvinists recanted their heresy and came back to Mother Church. And the real key was the New World. Spain began pouring gold from Americas into the Church and used the silver to support its armies. This all led to Spain no longer caring for control of populations. Its aristocracy was swimming in heavy metal (they couldn't go through it all if you gave them 5,000 years!). So it became less and less an issue after it ran the Muslims out of its southern territories. It then became a maritime nation as it helped the Catholic Church colonize what would become Florida and the southern United States.

England probably would have been much like Spain at this time had it not been for Henry VIII going crazy and murdering everything in his way to personal satisfaction of his lust. Anticlericalism was afoot in England, but based on the modern research into the support of Catholic parishes there in the 100 years before him, its clear the Catholic Church was more popular. Had he not officially broken from Rome, England may well have been in the New World 100 years before Jamestown as part of a missionary effort for the Catholic Church. And its Jamestown debacle wouldn't have gone down in history as such a massive failure. However, with Henry and the anti-clerical factions biting at the bit for control of property, the secular world there also stole a load of Church land, property and treasure.

But none of the thievery of Catholic wealth ever amounted to much for the theives. The Church never missed a beat largely because of its inate capacity to heal itself. (Read your Scriptures, and you'll see how Christ likened the Church to a vine.) What occurred was the downfall of city-states and the rise of nations like Germany and Holland within the Holy Roman Empire.

Main point is, the major effect of the failed Reformation movement was to instigate violent conflict over land and control of territory among imperial factions. The economic impact of corruption within the Catholic Church was short-lived and almost inconsequential, except as a tipping point for the unfaithful and ambitious.

Over time now, Calvinism can certainly be said to be the impetus of capitalism. We can be thankful for that I suppose. While John Calvin completely failed to understand individually what the Catholic Church knew collectively, you cannot legislate reform. You can only guide the sheep, feed the sheep, as Christ said. All of Calvin's delusional rules and regulations utterly failed to achieve any unity among Christians. Today, they are a travesty; the only legacy is separation from the fullness of the One church Christ commanded us to form. There isn't a single problem within the Catholic Church that isn't in the Reformed churches. Not one. And actually, there are other problems that don't exist in Catholicism because the splintering of Calvinism into tens of thousands of different sects has led to incredible heresies. But it did give the spark to capitalism. Praise.....
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International tax rate or capital gains tax on property sales in Spain for US citizens?

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If i sell my family property in Spain today (august 2011) what would I have to pay to the IRS? Assume I made $40,000.00 what is the current tax rate for international property sales

A. Property sales will be taxed by Spain because the property is located there. Even the tax treaty between the US and Spain says so.

Property sales are taxed by the US because you are taxed on world wide income.

You will file a form 1116 with your US taxes to get a credit for some (hopefully all) of the taxes you paid to Spain.

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