How do you know you are effective?

As a blogger it is important to know that your campaigns are effective. How do you gauge your success?

Our recent campaign to expose the worst lawyer and the worst real estate agency in Oulu has been an outstanding success. But two people (Kari Kantakoski of Kari Kantakoski Oy and Eva Pitkänen of Huoneistokeskus Oy) are totally oblivious of this as they live in their own make believe world trying to make a fast buck and cheat the owners of the property. They had banded together (as birds of a feather) to put "wrong" and "incomplete" information about a house on the internet, trying to get rid of it at a very low price. This was rejected by all the shareholders of that property.

Not only did the two of them illegally break into the house, change the locks and lock out the real owners, they tried to stop all the renovation which would have attracted the real buyers. In addition, not knowing anything about the history of the property, they put wrong and false information about the property on the internet, missing vital information which would have made the property a hot potato!

Reason - GREED!

Eeva Pitkänen of Huoneistokeskus Oy, rated by us as the Worst Real Esate Agency in Finland, sent an email to "her" client, the Worst Rated Lawyer in Finland, Kari Kantakoski, that the web page of house (Kampitie 6 B, Nokela, Oulu 90160), that they were illegally trying to sell as a dilapidated structure, had 2000 hits, of which only 3 people contacted them and only 1 person visited the site and went away seeing the situation!

Would anyone who took the time and trouble to maintain the garden in a pristine condition leave the inside of a house in a dilapidated condition, unless they were forced to?

What these two scamsters do not realise is that when people Google this particular site, not only does the page about the property appear, but also their ratings as the worst real estate agency and the worst lawyer appear alongside.

Who would want to do business with such a team of scoundrels!

Yes, the Oulu Best (Worst) Buy page can claim that it is making a difference!

Our web pages always come out at the very top in Google!

The Supreme Court rejoinder with the correct and legitimate enclosures exposing the trickster, Kari Kantakoski, is now in the hands of the Supreme Court as well as the Lawyer's Association of Finland!

Oulu buses and prices

I had not travelled as a paying passenger in a bus for a long long time.

My first seven years in Oulu, when I was working at the University, I travelled by bus.

When I arrived here in 1984, the fare from the Kampitie doorstep to the University (route 33), right across town, was just 3 marks (about € 0,50). Then I started to use a bus pass and the cost per journey was hardly € 0,10 as I used the pass many times a day.

I was not very happy with the weekend service and wrote a blistering article about it way back in 1991.

When I started using the car, first a VW Beetle, then a great Opel and then several other wonderful cars till my latest 1992 VW Vento, I hardly used the bus.

I used the service extensively when grandson Samuel was a toddler (1998-2000). But, in Oulu, we have a great rule that when accompanying a toddler in a push chair, neither has to pay the fare. I used to criss cross the city with him looking at all sorts of things as machines, cement churners, road rollers, dump trucks, cranes, as he used to be fascinated by them.

Finally, the other day, I gave my car for some work. I realised the bus stand was just outside my favourite garage, and there is a direct bus home.

Once on board I paid the fare - € 2,90.

An increase from € 0,50 to € 2,90 in 25 years seemed a bit steep to me. My pension vis-á-vis my salary in 1984 has not gone up by the dame ratio!

I cannot say whether the bus service has improved or not based on a couple of trips.

I can say the new technologies that are in play - bus arrival schedules at major bus stops along the route, the RFID bus cards (I was the actor in the first video of BUSCOM, reading the Financial Times in the Technology Village Cafe), and the modern bus fleet, certainly seems to indicate that it is a good service.

But worth the € 2,90 for a trip. Certainly not!

Worst / worst communicate

The worst real estate agency in Oulu, Houneistokeskus, communicated with the worst lawyer in Oulu, Kari Kantakoski, that although there were many hits to their page about the house in Nokela at Kampitie 6 B, NOT ONE person had bothered to communicate to Huoneistokeskus.

Would anyone in their right senses communicate with Huonesitokeskus when they see their rating as the worst real estate agency in Oulu and when they see they are associated with the worst lawyer in Oulu, Kari Kantakoski?

Go and see the web page describing the house at Kampitie 6 B. ALL the information about the house is WRONG.

I know, as I lived in that house for 24 years and was involved with all the major renovations over the years.

In addition, Kari Kantakoski is so desperate to sell the house to take the money into his own bank account, he is cutting all the corners to try to get the house sold.

Huoneistokeskus came up with a ridiculous offer, which all the members of the Death Estates rejected outright.

Kari Kantakoski has no right to sell the property. He also used the "Enforcement Act" to cheat Huoneistokeskus, the Oulu Police and a locksmith by the name of Securi Oulun Lukko to break into the house when he saw that the owners were in the process of renovating it. That the Oulu Police is the most corrupt force in Finland, led by a corrupt leader, Police Chief Veli-Erkki Ware, is well known.

It is also a hilarious Police Force, the laughing stock of the world, which test drivers for alcohol in their own bedrooms! I know, as I ( a complete teetotaler) was the one tested!

Kari Kantakoski ordered the renovation company to stop the work, which they rightfully refused. His intention was to show the outside and inside of the house in a dilapidated condition to sell the house at a low price.

As he has illegally locked out the owners, the inside cannot now be renovated.

Which real estate company, other than one with an agenda against the real owners, will show a house in a dilapidated condition saying that the buyers may want to renovate it differently?

That statement was made by Eeva Pitkanen of Huoneistokeskus! It really took the cake!

All the friends of the owners, who have expressed interest to buy the house will not conclude the deal with Huoneistokeskus and Kari Kantakoski as Kari Kantakoski has closed the bank account of the Death Estate and transferred it to his own name so that he could enjoy the proceeds of the sale of Kampitie 6 B by himself without giving a penny to the owners.

It is strange the Oulun Osuuspankki allowed this to happen. It must be that Kari Kantakoski is in league with the bank management for this to occur.

I have in my possession two statements from the Oulun Osuuspankki, one from the company banking section and another from the private customer banking section, that no account for the specific Death Estate is with the bank.

Kari Kantakoski is, however, writing to authorities that there is a bank account. Only it is in his own name with the Death Estate members having no access to the account!

Kari Kantakoski has falsified documents in both the Oulu Technical Centre and the Oulu Lower Court. This came to light only recently.

A rejoinder was filed yesterday in the Supreme Court of Finland which provides all the evidence of the malpractice of Kari Kantakoski as a lawyer.

Two complaints against Kari Kantakoski are also being looked into by the Lawyer's Association of Finland. But knowing the "brotherhood" attitude of such organisations not to take action against their fellow "brothers" not much can be expected out of that quarter.

The real justice will come when the court actions, two of them now in the Supreme Court, move to Europe as there are many violation of the Human Rights Convention!

In the meantime, "Inheritance Nightmare" is taking final shape. It is a great book, although I say it myself as an author.

ICE - In Case of Emergency

I received this very important email from a dear friend, which I felt should have the widest publicity, so I am putting it on all my major blogs:

We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) Campaign

The concept of "ICE" is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name "ICE" ( In Case Of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and Hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as "ICE."

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!

Let's spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our Mobile phones today!

Please forward this. It won't take too many "forwards" before everybody will know about this It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest .

Remember:- ICE will speak for you when you are not able to.

Thank you, Naval, for this wonderful input.