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Austin Audit Reveals Challenges of Converting Offices to Homes

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Only one office-to-residential conversion, the Brown Building Lofts, is reported to have been successfully completed in the city since 2004. Akin to other major U.S. The audit also reveals that Austin’s vacancy rate could reach 21% this year.

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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Morales was released after 17 days, given a second chance through the DACA policy ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ) as well as a green card petition filed by her mother, who gained legal status in 2004 after marrying a U.S.

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A Love Story So Unbelievable, Snopes.com Investigated

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But the story peculiarly reemerged years later as popular lore, Snopes.com’s Barbara Mikkelson reported : “We can’t fathom why the article quoted above suddenly became a hot email forward in 2004.”

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7 Must-Have Tech Tools for Every Small Business Startup

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Tap into cloud-based data storage In-house servers are so 2004. Google Workspace is another popular option, and there are even more specialized programs like LibreOffice Productivity Suite and NeoOffice for Mac.

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Angelos Michalopoulos and Vassiliki Petridou Own a Third of Ios Island in Greece—Here’s Why They Won’t Develop More than 1% of It

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In 2004, the couple began purchasing land before opening Agalia hotel and Calilo resort in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Michalopoulos and Petridou now own a quarter of Ios island and credit their profitability to developing only a small portion of land over an extended period of time.

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2024 Goals: Slow Living and Intentional Work

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from 2004 to 2024, and they are all way down. At the heart of Beato’s concern is a basic lack of genuine appreciation for music. To demonstrate this, he shows Google search results for music of many types (pop, classical, country, etc.) In most cases by around 70%. But that’s just the start.

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More Americans Facing a Rent Burden

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million more than in 2004.  Nearly 43 million U.S. households rented their homes in 2016, which is about 9.3

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