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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd When Slater & Gordon lawyer Pieter Kruger publicly declared that he had engaged in conduct recently found by the...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The Australian Financial Review has today published an article which reports my "conviction" for misleading conduct....
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd A 10 year battle comes to an end. Judgement in the matter of Dr Claire Noone, Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria v...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Finally, we have a real estate industry commentator who is independent enough to describe the industry as it really is....
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After a decade of representing vendor clients in the sale of their properties, and after two years of court preparation and the incurring of massive legal costs, the matter of DR CLAIRE NOONE, DIRECTOR OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS VICTORIA and PETER JOHN MERICKA...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au This unsolicited letter is currently being sent by email to Re/Max agencies around the world: “As a fellow Re/Max Broker, I'm writing to ask if you or perhaps...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au During 2008 the Commonwealth Bank made loans totalling $13.5 million to Matthew Perrin, his wife Nicole and their family company. Among other securities, the bank...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au What do you do when a property you have contracted to sell is damaged (by flood, fire or whatever) before settlement? What do you do if you are the buyer of that...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Real estate agents are rarely prosecuted or sued. Sure, we regularly hear about misbehaviour in the real estate industry and occasionally a real estate agent appears...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd In my last blog posting I wrote about Consumer Affairs Victoria's failure to address bribe induced corruption in the...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) has a sorry history when it comes to regulating Victorian real estate agents and, in...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Not only had the buyers purported to “charge” the property with the seller’s agent’s commission liability while consequently consenting to the agent’s lodgement...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Readers may or may not be aware that Google has announced a new social networking facility that will compete wit Facebook,...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Real estate agents have no automatic right to lodge a caveat over a client's property to secure the payment of commission....
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Consumer Advocate Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd I would like to hear from lawyers who would be interested in selling real estate in competition...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Consumer Advocate Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Rabies is a terrible affliction. It can can quickly turn a friendly family pet into a belligerent...
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OPINION by George Rousos Director Industry Training Consultants george@itc.nsw.edu.au François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au This story does not end, as many do, in a court case. But it begins, as many do, with a property advertised for sale: "Charmingly preserved Art Deco features abound...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd This is my first attempt at video blogging. Please provide me with your feedback, and any tips you have to offer on improvements...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au To my mind agents particularly should be prohibited from giving buyers so much as a bus timetable, and from recommending even the local Chinese restaurant. Needless...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Enzo Raimondo is the CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV), but he is not a lawyer. In fact, Mr. Raimondo...
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OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd It you can't make it, then fake it. In the real estate game this translates as a withholding of information so that the...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd "As it stands, Real Estate is the only consumer industry that manages to command percentage fees on selling prices. In an era...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Despite a lease clause prohibiting alterations without the landlord’s consent, an office building tenant redesigned and replaced the foyer of the building without...
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OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au The blame for many uninsured property and financial losses resulting from floods and from Cyclone Yasi can be sheeted home to banks, building societies, credit...
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