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Author Topic: KIVA Fellow Sam Baker - helpful post re: housing loans  (Read 2947 times)
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Unilove
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« on: January 21, 2009, 03:33:53 PM »

I just read the blog post by KIVA Fellow Sam Baker and his personal observations on the rationale and explanations for 'housing' loans.  Very insightful, and answered questions I have had re: housing loans and business entrepreneurship.  Have a read!  I found it helpful...

Unilove

P.S.  I did not know how to attach a link to it   Huh?  Can someone help me out and post a link, or PM to tell me how?  Thanks!  Cheesy
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« Reply To This #1 on: January 21, 2009, 04:11:50 PM »

Hi Unilove,

May I also suggest you check out some past conversation on housing loans here in the Thinking Further About Construction Loans thread?  There is lots of good information and also links to more Fellows blogs.

As for adding links, I suggest you go to the Tips & Tricks thread, it explains how to post almost anything!

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« Reply To This #2 on: January 21, 2009, 04:13:53 PM »

While reading the post in another browser window, mark the page's URL for copying, and copy it to your clipboard.  (For most folks, that involves highlighting the webpage address in the bar at the top of the browser and clicking Ctrl-C, but I know it's different for Mac users.)

Come back here and either modify your earlier post or create a new one.  Click on the second icon in the second row above where you're typing your post, on the box that looks as if it has a blue earth with a folded-down piece of paper in its lower right corner.  That will paste into your post a pair of terms inside square brackets that say (without the spaces I've inserted below to make it readable):

[ url][ /url]

Put your cursor in between those two terms and paste the content in your clipboard so it shows up in between the square brackets,  ]here[
For most of us, pasting is done using Ctrl-V, but your mileage may vary.  (You should be able to click at the top of your browser page on the Edit word to get a drop-down showing Paste, and use that method of pasting.)

You can then save or post and the link will be available to all.  (Did that make sense?)


--Diane.
(apologies if this was not the right explanation level -- one needs to know one's audience before trying to explain something like this successfully Smiley )

EDIT:  Whoops! Thanks for the suggestion to visit Tips & Tricks, Kerry, I should have remember to do that instead of getting all wordy!  Smiley
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« Reply To This #3 on: January 21, 2009, 04:55:10 PM »

Thanks!  I did that originally, but when I previewed, it was still all written out and I did not see the underlined link, so I was afraid to post it.  I got this post and two private messages!  you all are so helpful! Smiley
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« Reply To This #4 on: January 21, 2009, 04:58:38 PM »

And here's the link:

http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2009/01/21/mi-casa-tu-casa-a-kiva-fellow-at-the-apoyo-integral-field-partner-in-el-salvador/

Btw, while Diane's explanation is - of course - perfect, I usually leave away the [ url] [ /url] part - just typing or pasting the URL into your post here works fine (at least for me). Makes it even easier.

You will find more "advanced" tricks in the thread Kerry pointed you towards... like how to make the link look like this:

KivaFellow Sam Baker on housing loans

Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

PS: You can also "quote" this message, and you will see what above link looks like when compiling a post.

PPS: I see I am too late - but now I have already written it... so what the heck...
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« Reply To This #5 on: January 21, 2009, 05:14:20 PM »

You will find more "advanced" tricks in the thread Kerry pointed you towards... like how to make the link look like this:

KivaFellow Sam Baker on housing loans

Best wishes,
Wolfgang.

PS: You can also "quote" this message, and you will see what above link looks like when compiling a post.

PPS: I see I am too late - but now I have already written it... so what the heck...

Thank you!  Now I've learned quoting too Smiley  Will peruse the Tips thread to learn more... thanks for the pointers...
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