Honda is expanding its production base. This is evident in the construction of a new assembly plant for the company in Greensburg, Indiana. The new plant will cost as much as $550 million and will provide employment for the residents of the said area. In connection with the construction of a new plant, Honda will also start hiring a limited number of people for the non-production department. The Asian car maker announced that they will be running employment ads on newspapers that are published in the Indiana area.

Honda emphasized on their announcement of hiring that they will look for diversity on their workforce. “We are committed to recruiting candidates from diverse backgrounds to become part of our team,” McCoy stated in his announcement. This proclamation shows that true to its image, the car maker is an equal opportunity employer. This may be the reason for the admirable work ethics of their associates. Honda chooses to call their directly employed worker as associates. The assembly plant being constructed in Greensburg will handle all the jobs being performed by other huge automobile assembly plant. Stamping, body welding, plastic injection-molding, sub assembly processes, painting, and final assembly are the jobs that the Greensburg plant will be dealing with. Vehicles that will be produced at the said plant will be for the 2009 model year. The construction of the vehicles, which up to now Honda has yet to name, will start in fall of 2008. The assembly plant is being constructed on a 1,700 acre site in Decatur County, found on the northwest part of Greensburg. This will be the sixth plant in the United States of the Asian auto manufacturer.

So I’m at a wedding this weekend and a young friend asks how much it would cost to put me on retainer to buy a house. I explained to him how in the State of Indiana, in almost all residential purchases the buyer can receive free representation and choose their own real estate agent. If you’ve never bought a house, then odds are that you’ve never sold a home…

A seller will (and should) normally hire a Realtor or Real Estate Agent to assist them in marketing and negotiating the sale of their home. We’ll call this Agent the “Listing Agent”, they will then market the property with a main focus on the local property listing system. [Side Note- Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors (MIBOR) recently decided to change the name of our local system from MLS (Multiple Listing System) to BLC (Broker Listing Cooperative). I'll discuss this topic on another post.] The seller and the Listing Agent will agree on a price for services upon the effective sale of the home. What you need to understand at this point is that the Listing Agent will use a portion (normally half, sometimes more, sometimes less) of those funds to attract other agents. If the Listing Agent finds the buyer for the property then they keep the entire agreed amount (which can be different that if another agent brings the buyer).