Carpet installers, painters, carpenters, everyone you need to get a house ready for sale will be working.

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Zotye, a small Zhejiang province-based automaker also reportedly has an electric vehicle ready for sale, as do Chery of Anhui Province and Lifan of Chongqing.

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If sellers want to make top dollar, they need to take an honest, hard look at their home, leave unrealistic expectations behind and get it ready for sale.

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While now still may not be the perfect time to sell a home, it may be time for home sellers to get their places ready for a sale next year.

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Amazon has figured out the lesson for Blackberry and every other entrant into this incredibly competitive market: Do it right, at the right price, have the product ready to go when released for sale, provide apps and lots of content, and make sure that the hardware and software are supplied at the same time.

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Jon Welsh (leg), Graeme Morrison (knee) and Richie Vernon (shoulder) are not ready for Friday's friendly with Sale but are closing in on a return to full fitness.

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So ready, in fact, that in 2009 Asus produced a batch of its Windows Phone 7 device for sale.

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