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  • Re: Contracts Exchanged - But House has had a fire. Advice Please

    I think your friend's problem is with her solicitor, and she should direct her efforts to having her solicitor do what he is being paid to do, and that is to advise your friend and to represent her in her dealings with the vendor.  It should be remembered that the estate agent has no role in a real estate matter other than to introduce the ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by Peter Mericka on April 29, 2008
  • Ian Reid Takes Aim At Fellow Estate Agents

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   High-profile Melbourne real estate agent Ian Reid has copped some heavy criticism in the past over his Gazumping Clause and his Finance Clause.  However, it seems that Ian Reid can be a straight-shooter when it ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 18, 2008
  • Estate Agents And Security – Vendors At Risk

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate On 4 December, 2005 we ran a posting titled ''Agents As Security Goons – The ''Open House'' Of The Future?''. The issue remains topical, with an article appearing in the Herald-Sun on 10 January, 2006, titled “Revenge Plot Against ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on May 3, 2007
  • The Scandal of Stigma Homes - It’s time to set up a monitoring service.

    An article from the Jenman Website. In the pretty Sydney suburb of Sylvania, there’s a cute little home for sale at 39 Formosa Street. At $520,000, it seems well priced. If you turn up at the open-inspection, you’ll probably meet Rodney Spink of Sanders First National Real Estate. Like thousands of agents, Spink’s job is to maximise the positives ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on May 3, 2007
  • Hey Geoff, Real Estate Deceptions Are Never Funny

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate It would appear that the President of the REIV thinks it's funny when consumers are tricked by the scam known as the real estate auction. In a column titled ''Confessions'' appearing in the Domain section of The Age Newspaper ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on May 3, 2007
  • Worksafe Guidelines Ill-Informed

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate Surely, the first rule of risk management is to avoid unnecessary risks. It has never been necessary for Estate agents to act as ''escorts'' or ''security guards'' or ''crowd controllers''. ''According the latest posting on the website ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on May 1, 2007
  • Open For Inspection - Invitation For Theft

    Reports of burglary and theft associated with property inspections conducted by real estate agents indicate that thieves are relying on estate agents to provide easy access homeowners' valuables. Thieves no longer have to rely on jemmy bars to gain access to homes. Estate agents are providing easy access to valuables for clever thieves who ''shop ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on April 30, 2007
  • Blind Freddy Would Have Spotted The Problems

    by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Solicitor Bruce Simpson is a mate of mine. His little one-man legal office is in Cooroy, just inland from Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He does a fair bit of conveyancing and, as a result, does a fair bit of whinging at home to his wife ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on April 28, 2007
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