Buying a new home can be a very emotive experience. You fall in love with the place and you just have to have it but your future happiness rests on making the correct decision and there are many potential pitfalls. Often there can be extraordinary pressure to make a...
With the internet being such a valuable tool now it sounds a great idea to save a few bucks to just do it yourself. It seems a popular thing if you are not sure about something or need something to just look it up on-line and have a go yourself. We are seeing a lot...
When someone has passed away years of tension and emotions between the deceased and loved ones often comes to a ‘head’ resulting in a dispute. Whether it is one family member getting more than another or being left out entirely or concerns over the deceased...
A slang word, absent from many dictionaries but a word capable of striking fear into the hearts of buyers of real estate. ‘To bypass by selling at a higher price to another’ is the meaning provided by the Macquarie Dictionary. The old maxim of an...
In geographic terms ‘landlocked’ can describe a country with no coast, surrounded by other countries or lakes, lagoons or harbours that are completely surrounded by land with no access to the sea. To be landlocked in that sense, occupiers or users need to rely on...
I still find many people reluctant to give a Power of Attorney with fears the person they appoint will do the wrong thing and rip them off. Appointing someone as your attorney, particularly in those later years, can be such an important choice as many of us can need...
