{pp}Have you ever wondered why some properties sell within days and others never sell??

There are many reasons but in my opinion the following 3 are the most important reasons.

1. Over Priced

2. Bad Condition

3. Wrong Agent or worse NO agent

{pp}“While the South African car rental industry will continue to grow in 2008, growth levels are expected to be at a slightly lower rate than over the past two years”, says Avis Southern Africa MD, Wayne Duvenage.

Duvenage says Avis has grown its share of the car hire market over the past 6 months and expects to retain this share and continue to grow at the mid teens through 2008. “With major expansion plans underway and a brand new “state of the art” call centre in place, Avis is positioning itself for a busy future and the further strengthening of its brand promise “We try harder”,” he says.

{pp}A new website has been launched for Marlboro, the Township of the Gauteng Province in South Africa.

The new website, www.gautengmarlboro.org provides expanded information and photographs of Marlboro Township.

{pp}Hands on Treatment, a leading supplier of Corporate Massage services has partnered with up and coming Wellness provider Rival Industrial.

{pp}PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk management consultancy in the Africa Middle East region, will present at the 4th Biennial Micro Finance South Africa Summit.

Hosted by Trade Conferences International (TCI), more than 150 people - all role players in the micro finance industry in South Africa - are expected to attend this Summit.

This round of the biennial Summit is to be held 19-20 March this year at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg.

{pp}Attention developers: Free action-packed agenda for Sun Tech Days

Those familiar with the power of open source software will agree with the saying that the best things in life are free.

Sun Microsystems supports this stance and is bringing its Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conference back to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 11-13 March, at no cost to interested developers and software engineers. Among the high-profile Sun executives presenting at the conference is a keynote from Jeff Jackson, Sun's Vice President for engineering, managing the Solaris operating systems, clustering, database and storage software.

{pp}Southern Cycling Club (SCC) is located in the South of Johannesburg, South Africa. Falling under Central Gauteng Cycling (CGC).

Southern Cycling is having a Training camp running on the weekend of 22-24 February 2008 in Sabie. With rides going on the road, and off.

JK Properties have done it again. Jaco Viljoen says: “I am always looking for new and different ways to promote our business and therefore give our clients better service.

We have recently started a newsletter to keep our clients up to date on whats happening in and around benoni that could effect our property prices, and I am really proud to announce we are adding video to our marketing strategy and we are really excited about how this will improve our online advertising”

The South African Ballet Theatre’s Artistic Director, Ms Karen Beukes, has announced the promotion of the following SABT dancers:

Ms Sarah King is now ranked as a Senior Soloist while Ms Shannon Glover, Ms Gwen Barry and Mr Dion Page have all been promoted from Senior Corps de Ballet to Soloist ranking.

Ms Tammy Higgins and Ms Sanmarie Kreuzhuber have both been promoted from the Corps de Ballet to the Senior Corps de Ballet.

Ms Nicole Ferreira and Ms Claire Spector both successfully completed the SA Ballet Theatre’s Graduate programme in 2007 and have been accepted into the Company as members of the Corps de Ballet.

These promotions came into effect on January 21st when the Company resumed its rehearsals.