Hi Mini,

could i get the contact number for your solicitor?
my email is [email protected]

thanks in advance

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re: recommending people to my lawyer…

just had a conversation with him, making sure it was cool for me to continue to send people his way.

Yes, BUT!…came the answer….

with the request that anyone further i recommend to him has the following in place….

a) phone, email, and fax – essential to have these. if this is obvious to you, cool, but some people *don’t* have all of these in place and it is essential when the contracts start bouncing back and forth and you live overseas.

b) you should have international banking facilities to transfer funds quickly set up already. For example, if there is some council fee you want the lawyer to organise, it must be paid upfront and it’s not the lawyer’s responsibility to spring you the funds. Have that set up *before* you start making offers.
Also on the day your contract goes unconditional, the deposit is due. Just make sure you you know how to get the money where it needs to be by the date it needs to be there.

c) know that the lawyer’s job is not to provide you with investing advice. “what do you think??” of an investment puts him in an uncomfortable situation as a lawyer is not necessarily an ‘investment advisor’. Of course a lawyer can help you find out if an investment is not a good investment by uncovering information about the land title, etc, but that’s part of his job and answering ‘do you think this is a good deal?’ is not. You’re supposed to know that, you’re the investor…

d) just the usual things of know what you’re doing, prompt payment, have a plan, etc

I am gonna continue to recommend people (and I don’t get a kickback!) but you are gonna have to ‘screen yourselves’ that you have the above things set up first, before you ask. OK!!

cheers-
Mini

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