Congratulations Wylies Day, from one of your Sponsors, Family Abstract! As a Gold level sponsor, Wylie’s Day will again be presenting a $25,000 check to the Childrens Hospital at approximately 8:15. The team will exceed 150 so come early for team pictures. The tent location may be found at http://www.parkwayrun.com. The tent is generally right across from the Four Seasons. Look for this year Wylie’s Day tees – dark green, the 2011 edition.

There is still time to register to walk, just bring a check for $25! Let Stephanie know you are coming along with your t-shirt size. Email Stephani at sastrorae(at)gmail(dot)com. Runners who want to be timed will need to sign up at the registration desk in front of the Four Seasons. The schedule is as follows:
7:00-Day of Registration. Logan Circle. Please specify Wylie’s Day Team.
8:00-Please be at the tent site for the team photo.
8:12-Runners will be called to the starting line.
8:15-Wylie’s Day presents its check.
8:30-5K Run followed by...
8:40-2K Fun Walk.
9:20-Full breakfast served by the Four Seasons.

Race results will be announced at 9:40 and are also available online. You will have the whole day ahead of you and feel great for doing this wonderful deed.

If unable to make it down, but would like to donate to the team, please do so by following this link http://giving.chop.edu/goto/wyliesday and clicking on donate to Wylie’s Day.

"Thanks everyone for everything you've done in the past, the present and the future, keep up the great work, we are proud to be associated with you all!" -- Glenn Freezman, and everyone at Family Abstract.

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Family Abstract, Inc. a real estate title insurance company in Horsham, PA is again, this year helping promote the CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Four Seasons Parkway Run and to support the Wylie’s Day Foundation. The Four Seasons Parkway Run is an annual event that raises money to fight childhood leukemia and Wylie’s Team, one of the largest teams to participate, was able to raise $25,000 last year for the cause.

Wylie Strotbeck lost his battle with a brain tumor in 2005. Through his courageous fight and the efforts of his parents Stephanie and John and brother Max, Wylie’s Day was created to provide direct funding for medical research toward finding a cure for pediatric brain tumors so that one day no child (or family) will need to suffer through such a difficult journey.

From the Wylies Day website ... Our mission comes out of our personal experience of caring, loving and traveling through a journey no parent ever asks to go with their child. Wylie Strotbeck is our inspiration. He entered our lives February 18, 1992. He was our joy. We called him Smiley Wylie. He was diagnosed with a type of brain tumor called a Medulloblastoma in December of 2003 in the prime of his youth. This is the most common of all the childhood brain tumors, but not the easiest to cure. Thirteen years is not a very long time to live, but that is what Wylie Strotbeck was given. It was a very rich and loving life, but far too short for any child. Please read more at http://www.wyliesday.org/

Family Abstract Partner, Glenn Freezman considers it an honor to participate. “I have been friends with the Strotbeck’s for years and it is my personal wish that no other child will ever need to go through what Wylie went through. While a cure for pediatric brain tumors isn’t available yet, I feel confident that the proceeds raised through Wylie’s Day and the Four Seasons CHOP run can help make a difference in the lives of children in the future. It’s also a fun event and a chance to hang out with some very nice people.”

Local runners/walkers wanting to join Wylie’s team or make a donation to the cause can do so at http://giving.chop.edu/goto/wyliesday
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Established in 2002, Family Abstract, Inc. provides Title Insurance to clients and customers throughout Florida, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania with more than 50 years of combined experience in management alone. We pride ourselves on retaining the most skilled and knowledgeable employees who share our goals of providing the best service in the industry.

Located in Horsham, Pennsylvania, Family Abstract, Inc. maintains an extensive network of skilled title insurance abstractors in all the states we service in addition to a nationwide network of qualified closing agents who are available to close loans at any location.

Backed by the strength of four title insurance underwriters, we are able to provide expert attention to detail without sacrificing versatility in the closing process, thus providing more options in difficult title situations.

Due to our depth of industry knowledge and commitment to excellent service, Family Abstract, Inc. has been able to develop client relationships that have endured for decades. Having successfully settled and insured thousands of transactions, we have already earned the trust and confidence of hundreds of customers, lenders, brokers, and realtors and now we would like to share our expertise with you!

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Family Abstract, Inc. is bringing the Nucazza, LP, Alternative Compensation Plan to the customers at Citibank. This new model allows home buyers to work with Realtors(R) to create agreements that allows home buyers to get cash back, a reimbursement of of the Buyers Agents commission or a reduction in closing costs.

Horsham, PA (PRWEB) August 24, 2011

Family Abstract, a Horsham Pennsylvania based title insurance company, is offering a series of free seminars for Citibank Home buying customers living in the greater Philadelphia area that explores new ways in which home buyers can save thousands of dollars in closing costs on buying their next home.

The seminars, presented by Nucazza LP, focus on ways for home buyers and their real estate agents to work together to create ‘alternative compensation agreements’ that refund the agent’s traditional sales commission payment back to home buyers as either a cash rebate reimbursement , a way of buying down the rate, or as applied toward closing costs when they buy a home. In exchange, the home buyers agree to pay the agent directly for their time and services (like other professional service providers) when that support is provided. The result is that agents get paid for their time and expertise while home buyers can save thousands of dollars in typical closing costs using these new approaches.

Citibank is offering these seminars in an effort to enlighten their bank customers on different ways to buy homes that give them greater control over the outcome of the purchase as well as helping them discover ways to save money.

The seminars will run through the end of 2011 and will be held at Citibank branches in Montgomery, Bucks and Philadelphia counties. For a schedule of upcoming seminar dates, please visit http://www.nucazza.com/upcoming-webinars.html.

So let the celebration begin!

Family Abstract, Inc. is proud and happy to be celebrating our ninth anniversary at our location in Horsham, PA!

It seems like just last year we marveled at how fast the time has gone - oh, wait! That was last year!

Well, here we are again, and happy to be here!

These truly are trying times for most businesses but even more so for those who rely upon the ebb and flow of the real estate industry. Right now it seems more like ebb than flow but experience has taught all of us that just like life itself, business of any kind is a cycle.

Sometimes it's a vicious cycle.

Success is not a constant. Success, in order to be sustainable requires a continuous effort. If you stop the effort, the success will cease to be.

Few industries rely upon clichés as much as real estate. You've probably heard most of them:

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Let's get back to basics!

The harder I work the luckier I get.

And the list goes on. Every broker, real estate or mortgage, uses these words of encouragement to get their people moving and keep them motivated. For the most part they can give a struggling professional a little lift to hang in there and work harder until business improves.

The clichés really haven't changed much in the last one hundred years but there is one that I feel needs some pondering:

If you keep on doing what you have always done, you will always get what you always got.

The idea being conveyed is, if you keep doing things that do not bring you successful results, you will continue to fail. You can turn that thought around to mean, if you keep doing things that bring you success, you will continue to be successful.

Does this concept still apply to the business environment we are in now?

Will the things you have done that led you to success in your business continue to bring success?

Or is it essential to take a deeper look at what you have been doing and give some serious thought to how you can improve upon your basics, adapt to the changing world that swirls around your business and make your success an on-going process?

Family Abstract, Inc. is committed to building upon our strong base, adapting to industry and technology changes and continuing to be the best of the best in the Title Insurance Industry!

We are committed to you, our clients and customers because YOUR success is our mission!

(Reprinted with permission from The Title Review, the official blog of Family Abstract, Inc.)

Recycle Your Soles

By

Margie Matarazzo

Recycling is something I am very passionate about and have been most of my life. So much so, that it has inspired me to choose Environmental Studies as my major when I started attending Temple University in Philadelphia.

When you think of recycling you probably think of cans, bottles, newspapers, and cardboard; hopefully you do in fact recycle these items. I am trying to make recycling shoes just as second nature as recycling these other things.

In Levittown, Bucks County they pick up all recyclable items curbside on specific days and there are paper recycling bins all over, but what about shoes?

Shoes are something that everyone owns and everyone needs. On average, Americans own up to nine pairs of shoes! So what do you do with them once they reach the end of their usable life, or when that fashion trend is over? Unfortunately, most people I have asked will throw them away in the garbage where they will then go sit in the landfill for a devastating one thousand years!

There are many options out there for doing something positive with your old shoes and hopefully one day soon there will be many more convenient options.

In Bucks County there are tons of donation bins all over to help at the local level. Specifically the Salvation Army in Fairless Hills, the Purple Heart who will come to your house and pick up your donations anywhere in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland, or St. Vincent DePaul that works through St. Michaels Church on Levittown Parkway and have scheduled pick up dates. It amazes me that most people don’t even know about these organizations.

If you’re like me and want to help in anyway you can both locally and globally, there are some wonderful organizations you can ship your shoe donations to and they will then send your shoes anywhere in the world where there is a current need.

They specifically only send to people who need it and want it so that we aren’t just shipping our trash to people who don’t want it.

The organization Souls4Soles has helped re-shoe people who have lost everything in disasters like Hurricane Katrina, and people who never had any shoes to begin with.

Try to imagine a place where no one has shoes and the streets are flooded with toxic chemical filled sludge. You can only imagine the type of diseases that could be acquired through the feet with no sort of protection. Unfortunately, this is a reality for some.

Souls4Soles also helps provide low income people with business shoes so they can feel confident when needing to go on a job interview. It’s the little things in life such as this that we take for granted because we have shoes for every occasion at our fingertips.

So what happens if the shoes are torn to bits and they couldn’t possibly be worn again? Nike has a program called Reuse-a-shoe where they collect sneakers and sports shoes in Nike and Converse stores. Nike sends them to their NikeGrind facility and grinds the three parts that make up a shoe and turns them into tracks, gym floors, soccer fields, and play grounds.

Now that I have spread this amazing knowledge there is literally no reason to ever throw away a pair of shoes again!

Reprinted from The Title Review, the official blog of Family Abstract, Inc.