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    To fix for 5 or 10 before monday??

    A hard question to answer. 4.39% certainly looks an appealing rate for a 5 year fixed because you can see variable rates going way above this. Whether 5.2% is a good 10 year fixed rate nobody knows. You're in to guessing territory. Will markets rebound over the next couple of years and then...
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    Selling Overseas Property Quickly

    The best agency in Bulgaria is Address. I dealt with them years ago and found them to be professional. You'll always get a few dodgy ones even in Address but overall I found them quite good. See - address.bg. For Bulgaria you need to get address to value your apartment. If you set an...
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    VAT question - shipping goods from abroad

    Hi, I'm importing goods from the US, storing in a warehouse in Holland, selling online and delivering around Europe (haven't started yet!). The products will be sold through a website and the company is registered in Ireland. Do I pay vat in holland and then send out goods with dutch vat rate...
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    Buying sports equipment - swim/sports gear

    Hi, Would you recommend anywhere online to buy low cost sports equipment, looking for tennis racket, swim bag, sports clothes etc. Thanks,
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    On jobseekers benefit and thinking of returning to college?

    To get job seekers benefit you have to be actively seeking employment. If you're actively seeking employment between now and when the course starts then you should be able to claim.
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    Options re Project Management (Distance Education).

    Don't know about distance courses but assuming you're talking about software then I'd make sure it's a PMI course so you can site the PMI exams. This is internationally recognised and it's the one most in demand.
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    Looking for Ideas to market websites that will help small-business and educational in

    Re: Looking for Ideas to market websites that will help small-business and educationa You're moving into a very crowded market and selling cheap websites doesn't mean that customers won't expect any changes, they'll still expect changes and this will eat into your profiit. If you haven't...
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    How to invest in a start up business

    You should approach your accountant regarding BES schemes where you can claim tax back. 15k investment is fine for most BES schemes.
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    Selling a rented house

    I sold a house recently and I had tennants in the house. A couple of times where we had cash buyers ready for a viewing the renters either forgot to leave the house or left it untidy. We would have sold the house a lot quicker if we got the tennants to move out and painted/tidied up a bit...
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    Monthly course & job seeker's allowance

    There's nothing wrong with doing a course so your claim will be delayed. You benefit is going to based on previous years PRSI contributions (2007 I think!).
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    Short term work on JB - Company Director

    A friend of mine is on JB (Job Seekers benefit) and also is a Director of a company X. She has been offered a few days work and is planning on subcontracting herself out to the company Y so payment will be made to her Company X and then she'll get the money out of that. She will need to...
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    How best to protect brilliant/innovative Fundraising Idea? Licence, Patent or other?

    Re: How best to protect brilliant/innovative Fundraising Idea? Licnece, Patent or oth For starters write down the details of the idea and post it to yourself. Don't open up the letter ever unless you have to. With this letter you will have the date is was sent at and hence when you conceived...
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    Advice-500k mortgage,200k Cash.What to do?

    I would keep cash in a high interest deposit account. Increase monthly repayments (if you can afford to) on mortgage to get benefit from lower interest rates. If you loose your job it will feel a lot better having a good wad of cash in your bank account. You could use the interest on your...
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    New Business Idea. Who should I speak to?

    Enterprise Ireland are interested in businesses that have potential for over 10 employees and over 1,000,000 of revenue over 3 years. Also they require that you will trade internationally. But either way your first step should be your local enterprise board. They may provide help towards a...
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    Advertising ideas wanted...

    Use Social Marketing and SEO (search engine optimisation) to promote your website.
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    Payoff Mortgage Early or Put on deposit/equities

    If I were you I'd be keeping my cash, you don't know how long you you will be redundant for.
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    Electric Bicycles, any advice on them?

    I had a trial run on an electric bike and I was surprised how good they were. I've sent you a PM with details of a guy I know who sells them in case you're interested (he's a friend so that's why I don't want to mention details to everyone).
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    Shutting down business

    I don't have a checklist but this info may be useful: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/employment/types-of-employment/self-employment/closing-or-selling-a-business-in-ireland
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    Where are the IT jobs?

    There are very few IT jobs with lots of people looking for them. If you see an IT job advertised on Irishjobs/monster etc the chances are that the agency will get a lot of applications within a couple of minutes. Your best way of getting a job is to start connecting with all the people you...
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    Graduate Tech Writer positions

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are hiring at the moment and they may be interested. They are based in city centre, see link about their investment:
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