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Queensland Lawyers Warned About Trust Account Scam
03 August 09 09:41 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au The Queensland Law Society has warned its solicitor members of an attempted trust account scam that had been brought to the Society’s attention. A Queensland law Read More...
The Myth of the Real Estate Agent Negotiator
02 February 09 09:01 AM | Peter Mericka | 29 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd A real estate sale negotiator requires a thorough knowledge of the laws and regulations affecting real estate, drafting Read More...
REIV - Bad Investment Advice On Buyers' Advocates
22 January 09 08:16 PM | Peter Mericka | 5 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd As an investment adviser Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria is the last person a property purchaser Read More...
Estate Agent Referrals - Punishment & Corruption
27 October 08 10:32 AM | Peter Mericka | 9 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd I have previously written about estate agents who refer clients to "pet" solicitors and conveyancers in return for payment, Read More...
Don't Be A Party To Mortgage Fraud!
27 February 08 06:49 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Last week I received this email: "Tim, I was wondering if you could help me with a strange clause. A woman wants to purchase a property for $500,000. She wants to get Read More...
Real Estate Agents Preying On Battlers
28 January 08 06:42 PM | Peter Mericka | 3 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd " Real Estate Agents Preying On Battlers " is the title of an article appearing on the ABC news website. I invite visitors to Read More...
The "Oh", "Really?" and "I Wish I Had Known That!" of Making an Offer and Organising Finance
24 January 08 09:55 AM | Shannyn Hunter | 7 Comments   
by Shannyn Hunter Conveyancer shannyn@lawyersconveyancing.com.au Lawyers Conveyancing On Monday morning purchasers can experience a real estate hangover. After a weekend of elation at finding their dream house and pressure from the agent to make an offer, Read More...
Catch 32 On Solicitors' Independence
06 December 07 08:53 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Queensland’s Office of Fair Trading has lost, and lost badly, a landmark case mounted in the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal against Gold Coast solicitor Donald Dickie. Read More...
Who Will Pay The (Legal) Ferrymen?
29 November 07 06:28 AM | Peter Mericka | 2 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Below are comments I have received independently from a couple of legal colleagues. They are clearly quite concerned about the ‘costs consequences’ of conveyancing solicitors’, Read More...
Richard Wood Solicitors Letter - A Lawyer Responds
29 August 07 12:31 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd This is a comment submitted in response to the previous posting on this site. While I cannot help but be annoyed about the apparent Read More...
Richard Wood Solicitors Letter – An Estate Agent Attacks
27 August 07 06:52 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd On 3 August, 2007 I published a posting titled " Richard Wood Solicitors – Gifts To Agents For Client Referrals ". On 13 August, Read More...
Landlords' Legal Letter-Writers Beware
10 May 07 11:37 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Chief Justice of Queensland Paul de Jersey has warned my State’s lawyers, when they write letters of demand on behalf of clients, to be careful before Read More...
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Contracts - Real Estate Booby Traps!
10 May 07 11:35 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate Most real estate consumers are aware that real estate contracts are biased heavily in favour of the vendor, and contain a minefield of terms Read More...
Don't Trust Agents' Pet Solicitors Or Conveyancers
04 May 07 02:52 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer Solicitor* A solicitor, recently discharged from bankruptcy, has given an enforceable undertaking to Queensland’s Office of Fair Trading after consistently failing to comply properly with a consumer protection law. He is not the first. Read More...
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Finders Keepers?
30 April 07 04:59 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au On TV's Neighbours once a cache of banknotes was dug up from a vacant lot in Ramsay Street. In the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes play-archaeologists Read More...
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