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FRONT LINES: FAST TAKES U.S. becoming challenge to relocating employees. The United States now ranks behind only China and Japan in the difficulties it poses to employees relocating from other countries, according to the 10th annual Global Relocation Trends report. This was the first time the United States has appeared on the difficulties list. The reason? Terrorism security, with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service) taking longer than in the past to process visas and other paperwork. The review was issued jointly in June by GMAC Global Relocation Services, the National Foreign Trade Council, and the Society for Human Resource Management. More online: Whose bad credit? A quarter of U.S. households’ credit reports contain errors serious enough to result in denial of credit, loans, and even jobs, a June report by U.S. Public Interest Research Group says. Nearly 80 percent of reports examined contained mistakes of some kind; 54 percent contained personal identifying information that was incorrect, belonged to someone else, was outdated, or was misspelled; and 30 percent listed accounts closed by the consumer as open. The report is based on analyses of 200 credit reports of households in 30 states. More online: Credit report errors Kunz heads up Century 21. Thomas R. Kunz was named president and CEO of Century 21 Real Estate Corp., effective June 23. Kunz is a 31-year real estate veteran and for the last two years has been president of Century 21 Award, in San Diego, the No. 2-ranked Century 21 office in 2003, according to Cendant, with 750 sales associates and $2 billion in closed sales volume. Kunz replaces Van Davis, who resigned in early June to pursue other business interests, according to Cendant Real Estate Services Division. eNeighborhoods grows. eNeighborhoods Inc. announced in late June the acquisition of REChannel Communications Inc. (www.rechannel.com), which creates Web sites for salespeople and brokers. “The company has one of the best technologies we’ve seen for creating integrated Web sites, including IDX and VOW solutions, along with some great back-end management products, which we plan to integrate into our suite offerings,” says Stuart Siegel, CEO of eNeighborhoods. The announcement comes after a $5 million investment in eNeighborhoods’ parent company Siegent by private equity firm Summit Partners of Boston. eNeighborhoods
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