Charleston, SC

Charleston Area keeps bringing in new industries and revitalizing the infrastructure of existing sites. The latest news for Charleston is for expansion of the old Shell Lubricant site which will create approximately 160 jobs. Increasing jobs will help stabilize and grow the Charleston housing market.

Charleston Post & Courier - December 1, 2008 - Delfin Group USA plans North Charleston expansion

Russia's Delfin Group USA, also known as Project Bluewater, is looking to add 160 jobs at the former Shell Lubricants plant on Virginia Avenue in North Charleston.

An expansion-minded business previously known only by the code name "Project Bluewater" has been unveiled: Petroleum product manufacturer Delfin Group USA plans to expand its North Charleston plant.

Headquartered in Russia, Delfin purchased the former Shell Lubricants site on Virginia Avenue for $20 million less than a year ago. Now it plans to invest $55 million in the facility. Delfin will retrofit the plant's existing infrastructure to support manufacturing for its automotive and industrial lubricants to be sold in the U.S. and abroad.

The company's North Charleston operation employs 15 workers but will add 160 jobs within the next three to four years, according to a statement Monday.

Delfin said it will complete the initial phase of the expansion next year.

To read the whole article visit: http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/dec/01/delfin_group_usa_plans_n_charleston_expa63524/

For more information on demand for housing Charleston please visit: Charleston Housing

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Carrie A. Chaplin will be the featured speaker at the Charleston Real Estate Investor's Association December 2, 2008 meeting. Carrie has 15 years experience in the Dorchester County magistrate's office.

She has worked in every area of the summary court system with 9 of those years specifically dealing with civil issues.

Currently, Carrie is the deputy magistrate for the Dorchester County magistrate's office located in Summerville, SC. She has oversight of day to day operations of all courts within the magistrate's office.

Carrie will share her wealth of knowledge that she has learned by having worked her way up through all facets of the court system to being the chief of administrative duties.

Accompanying Carrie will be Judge Penny Merriman, associate chief magistrate, will be available to answer
any questions from a judge's perspective.

If you are going to buy, manage, or sell properties it is not a question of "if" you will need this information one day....it' s a question of "when" you will need it!

This could be the best meeting of the year... hope you can join us!

Come with your questions or send them in early so we can add them the list and get them answered.

This is an "Open Meeting"- Guests & Visitors Welcomed!

Register at http://www.charlestonrein.com

Event Date: December 2th, 2008

Event Start Time: 6:00 pm

(If you are late, you will not be allowed to enter and interrupt the meeting).

Event End Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Carey Hilliard's Restaurant, 6601 Rivers Ave. N. Charleston, SC.

Primary Phone: 843-200-5617

Primary Email: bobbywallace@sc.rr.com

This event is FREE for 1st time visitors -$10 for returning GUESTS

Thanksgiving is a time each year when I reflect on the things that I am happy and grateful for:

A wife who loves me; fairly good health; kids & grand kids; freedom, living in a great country, business opportunities, all the things that we occasionaly take for granted.

Several years ago, a former neighbor and friend of mine was going through a tough time;

he had previously lost his job; his wife and he had separated;

he missed his kids terribly;

and he had spent Thanksgiving all alone in a small, cramped, camper.

When I ran into him a few days later, I was trying to make small talk (without mentioning anything about what he was going through) and absentmindedly asked:

"How was your Thanksgiving?"

Almost before my foot flew into my big mouth, the thought ran through my mind:

"Bobby, you big idiot! What were you thinking?.

Here he was without a job, without his family, spending Thanksgiving alone...what a question to ask:

How would you think his Thanksgiving would be?

Surprisingly, instead of glaring at me or telling me where to go, my former neighbor just grinned and began telling me about a "great Thanksgiving recipe" that someone had given him...and urged me to try it the next time that I cooked a turkey.

So, this Thanksgiving, with the state of the economy and market the way that it is, and the many other challenges that life throws at us, you may be thinking of trying something "new" or different, instead of the traditional Thanksgiving day meal; I would like to humbly offer my friend's recipe to you with the hopes that it will makes you as happy, as it made him.

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

2. Take a 10-12 lb turkey and wrap in foil

3. Add salt & pepper

4. Add 1 quart of Jack Daniels

5. Add 1 quart of Crown Royal

6. Close foil & slide turkey into preheated oven.

7. Let cook for 2 hours @ 400 degrees

8. Take the turkey out, throw the bird away....and drink the gravy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish you could have been there.

It was close...very, very close.

It had all the excitement, the synergy, the trash talking of a WWF RAW Smackdown.

Our recent Charleston Real Estate Investors Association CashFlow 101 tournament had nervous newcomers and hardened, out-for-blood-in-their-eyes, veteran players all competing for the title of "The Best CashFlow 101 Player in Charleston, SC"!

CASHFLOW 101 is an educational program that teaches accounting, finance, & investing at the same time and makes learning fun...plus, it gives you an opportunity to network with "like-minded" people.

The defending Cashflow 101 champion Valerie Singley, who recently broke all previous "Get out of the Rat Race" records, combined "debt reduction maneuvers" with a couple of "uncharacteristically speculative risks" and jumped out to an early lead...

but, in the end, just couldn't hold off challenger Christi Baus, who roared from behind to take the prestigious title.

Please join us in congratulating Christi Baus on her victory....

...and please join us at our next Charleston CashFlow 101 Tournament where Singley and several previous champions compete for the title of "Best CashFlow 101 Player in Charleston"; for details or to R.S.V.P. visit our website at:

http://www.charlestonrei.com or call (843) 200-5617h

The last time that Odell Barnes was interviewed he had over 400 would-be homeowners from all over the United States send hime their contact info in hopes that he would finance a home for them.

When "Nightline" first met Odell Barnes, the man known to some as the Foreclosure King, he was on his cell phone constantly, buying foreclosed homes by the dozens from his front porch in South Carolina. (ABC News)A year later, he's still answering the phone, but he's off his porch and in Detroit.

"It's too big for me," he said of the current housing crisis. "One thousand houses a week? It outgrows you." Sitting on another front porch - this time at a burned-out house in Detroit - Barnes has plunged face first into the nation's housing crisis. He's always bought houses in bulk from banks, but what's changed is that, in the last year, mortgage insurer Fannie Mae has begun dumping foreclosed houses on him. The original owners are gone and Fannie Mae and the banks can't sell any other way.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6249208&page=1

http://bestcelebscoop.com/foreclosure-king-odell-barnes-says-the-best-thing-for-distressed-neighborhoods