Voice for Real Estate – Taxes, CFA, Settlement, TRID and Credit

REALTORSĀ® benefit the most when they manage their finances during the year with an eye on their tax liability. That’s the message of two tax experts who are hosting a live webcast on how to manage your income like a business.

In this weeks “The Voice for Real Estate” we also look at NAR’s condo financing Call for Action, the Move-Zillow legal settlement, and difficulties real estate agents are facing trying to get the closing disclosure under new “Know Before You Owe” rules so they can help their clients.

The video also looks at the impact of student debt on home buying, efforts to make credit scores more accurate for people who have thin credit files, and the latest commercial real estate economic and regulatory update.

Social Media: People Still Use Pathetic Passwords

Source: Statista

Recently Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked with a person familiar with the matter claiming he reused the password: “dadada”. One of Facebook’s primary security tips is not to reuse passwords anywhere else online. The Facebook boss was quite fortunate however, with “OurMine Team” who hacked his Pinterest saying they were just testing Zuckerberg’s security.

The infographic below shows a list of the 10 most popular LinkedIn passwords which were revealed during 2012 hack when the details of 117 million users were stolen. “123456” was the most popular password by far, used by over 750,000 accounts according to LeakedSource. The second most popular was “linkedin” (172,000 accounts) followed by “password” (144,000 accounts).

This chart shows the frequency of use of LinkedIn’s 10 weakest passwords.

Infographic: Social Media: People Still Use Pathetic Passwords | Statista
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The Most Popular Apps in the World

Source: Statista

As we have recently learned, smartphone users in the United States spend more time using apps than ever before. On average, they spend more than 40 hours a month using their favorite apps. Meanwhile, the number of apps they use has plateaued since 2012. 27 appears to be the magic number in terms of how many apps people need.

So which apps do people actually use? According to SensorTower data reported by ReCode, there are few surprises when it comes to the most popular apps in the world. Big players such as Google, Facebook and Twitter dominated global app downloads in May, with Facebook owning four of the five most-downloaded apps in the world.

This chart shows the most popular apps in the world as of May 2016.

Infographic: The Most Popular Apps in the World | Statista
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