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Find a great property investment and give back at the same time

We are very proud to be associated with Community REfund, an organisation with a practical mechansim to achieve an ambitious aim: to ensure that local communites benefit from the explosion of real estate investment activity taking place in the country.

The “RE” stands for real estate

Community REfund solicits contributions from real estate buyers, developers, agents, and other parties involved in the real estate transaction, and channels these funds towards the needs of the local communities in a way that is mutually beneficial to both donors and recipients.
 
Community REfund has two main programs. The Savings Start program supports local small business owners and contributes to microenterprise development. The Community Bridge program helps to raise funds for community led projects.
 
We will be providing regular updates on this great new initiative.  Learn more from the Community REfund website and get involved.

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What is RSS?

RSS is a “news feed” that allows you to see when websites have added new content.  You get the latest headlines, news, listings sent to you automatically as soon as it is published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from.

RSS is a great way to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You also save time by not needing to visit each site individually. Wikipidea has more on Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

How do I start using RSS feeds?

The first thing you need is something called a news reader, feed reader or news aggregator.  This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added.  There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.

Two popular Windows based feed readers are Feedreader and Newsgator.  There are also a number of web-based feed readers available including Google Reader, Bloglines or My Yahoo.  Some browsers, including latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier.  You can also choose to receive your RSS feeds via email.

Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites such as this one that syndicate their content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.

The icon looks like this:

Just click on this icon once you have set up your feed reader or directly if you are using a brower based reader.

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