You are likely to find a buyer more quickly and at a better price if you factor in localmarketconditions and recent sales before setting an asking price, burnish your home's Internet profile and plan ahead for a home appraisal.
Roughly 6 weeks ago in a Forbes Sports Money piece, I argued that the Chicago Cubs were one of the biggest anomalies in professional sports for their inability to find consistent success despite favorable localmarketconditions (i.e. a large market size coupled with an enthusiastic fan base).
It encourages jealousy and spurious comparisons, and detracts attention from the two factors that should determine pay: local labour marketconditions, and performance.
While anybody can start a business, the success of that undertaking is going to depend on the quality of your idea, your willingness to work hard at it and the conditions of the localmarket.
But so far, none of the Bells has met the market-opening conditions for their local franchises that were laid down in the 1996 telecommunications act as a condition for ending their exclusion.