FAQ – PRIVACY Page or Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about HomeBuysBlog & 365 Things to do in Simi Valley
When did this blog start?
April , 2008.
What is this blog about?
Real Estate. Home Sales, Home Purchases, Leasing, Commercial Property Sales, Economic Issues, Market Issues. Pretty much anything related to real estate and more specifically covering Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Agoura, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, West Hills, Chatsworth, Canoga Park, Winnetka, Northridge, Tarzana.
Why do you write here?
Homeowners and potential homeowners are constantly searching through the Internet for information to make more educated decisions about selling their home or buying a home. I hope to provide valuable information to help those in the search. This is my full-time career, this is what I love doing, assisting people with their real estate needs. The variety and challenges in the real estate field are very exciting and sharing my experience is one way I can give back to those who’ve given me such a wonderful career.
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Number one, accountability. All blogs create a discussion environment for those passionate out the topics. This site will not tolerate personal attacks, Astroturfing or Glad-Handing.
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California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
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As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by contacting the site administrator.
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
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This policy was last modified on May 19, 2012
What is your Blog Comment Policy?
This site encourages users to use their real name and not comment anonymously. Some users may feel the need to comment anonymously due to work related or other personal reasons which is fine; however this site reserves the right to moderate all comments as it sees fit. Please advise the site administrator if you would like your comments removed.
PERSONAL ATTACKS will not be tolerated. The use of the word “LIAR” will not be tolerated. All anonymous commenters will need to provide a track record of adding to the conversation. Anonymous users should consider that any monikers that are derivations of real people or persons in the community, celebrities, etc, will be deleted and possibly blocked/banned from this site.
Commenters with profile pictures and personal customizations understand that any images or text associated with any commenter that is offensive in nature will be grounds to delete all comments and posts related to the offending user and banned from the site.
The moderators, administrators and editors of this site retain the right to edit or remove any user comments at any time for any reason.
Links to other sites left in comments may be removed at the discretion of the administrator of this site. Your links, if found to be offensive, or attacks in nature will be reported to the ASKIMET Spam prevention system. Biz-ops are not welcome in the comments on this site and will be treated as Spam.
What software runs on this blog?
This is a WordPress blog.
What plugins do you use?
These will change all the time and would be too hard to maintain as a list here. I frequently use the Text Widget and write my own HTML for side bar widgets.
Can I link to you? Add you to my blogroll?
If you are a spammer, Biz-op, adult site, gambling, etc. No you may not link to this site. Otherwise, yes you may. I love links!
Can we exchange links?
No, that trick does not work anymore.
Why don’t you participate in link exchanges?
If you have to ask then you certainly are not up to speed with how Google indexes pages. There may be certain links directly related to dominant content on this site that will be linked, but general link farming is not an objective of this site.
Can I copy your content?
NO! That would be a violation of copyright law. You may use one to four sentences, but never more than 10% of the post, as long as this site’s content is properly attributed (with a link to the original post).
