oh my god thank you soooooooooo much to everybody. this is great.
i’m taking everything in like a thirsty sponge.

initially when i decided to do property development, i thought to myself what’s the big deal. buy a piece of land and build a few townhouses on it. but now, the more i know, the more i realize how little i know. there is a sea of information out there. it’s sooo hard to sift through it and decide what is good and what not and especially what is relevant to my situation. so my hat goes off to the people who are already doing it. coz now i know this isn’t as easy as it looks at first.

yeah maybe 4 properties is a bit of a big project. but i thought since i’ve got 500k the bank can lend me the rest. i haven’t done my homework at all. i have no idea what the townhouses will cost in real terms. i’m just putting figures together based on other people’s estimates of similar projects. and what the real estate agent is telling me.

i’ll start taking this a little slower i think. and a bit more serious. this is hard work. but so exciting. love challenges. and this is one of them. i know i’ll succeed. i’m not being smug or anything. but gotta stay positive right?

thanks again everyone.
if you have anything else to add, Please Please do so.
Cheers
S

ii everyone,

thanks for your feedbacks.

i can only wish the domain in question was emex.com.au – i would give it up in a heart beat. no problems.

unfortunately it is not.

i don't know if it would be wise mentioning the domain here but let me give you some facts on a hypothetical domain name – let's say it is NiceDay.com.au….

the facts (and a timeline) are:

1. 2003 – they have a trade mark in class 16 for "Nicer Day"
2. Early 2003 – they brought out a Newsletter called "Nicer Day"
3. Late 2003 – I registered the domain NiceDay.com.au (at this time i did not know there is a Newsletter called "Nicer Day")
4. Mid 2005 – I applied for Trade Mark in class 35 for Niceday.com.au
5. Mid 2006 – They registered their Domain "NicerDay.com.au"
6.Early 2007 –  I launched my Website "NiceDay.com.au"
7. Late 2007 – They launched their Website "NicerDay.com.au"
8. Late 2007 – They offered to buy my domain for 10k
9. I refused (as i have spent a lot of money developing and working on it)
10. Early 2008 – They applied for Trade Mark of "Nicer Day" under class 35 (which is deffered as my application is ahead)
11. 3 weeks ago – they asked me to hand over my domain and pending trade mark application free of charge as they say i am breaking all these laws such as the trade mark law, misleading and deceptive conduct, etc.

i hope you can shed some light on this for me. I have a lot of traffic on my domain because mine is the correct spelling and theirs is a mis-spelling of the words involved.

thanks
regards
afghangirl

we let them get away with it, because we forget. and they know we forget. so they continue doing what they were going to do anyway. its a cycle.

and even if we remember what they had promised, yet deliver something else (ie. GST), we jump up and down for a while, then settle down because another issue has taken precedence. who feeds us the other issue? they do.

i’m not politically involved at all, but things like this tend to stick out a lot.

that john howard site gave me a big wake up call. politicians do ANYthing and then lie themselves out of it. and we just accept this because it has been repeated so often, we consider it the norm.

why should we accept some liar as our leader? i think that a law should be passed, where we can vote a Prime Minister out (during his leadership period), if he has been caught lying or has been deceitful to the people who voted him in.

i really feel trapped in this beaurocracy.[cigar]

andrewsal,

its a potatoe farm. lol.
kidding.

i’ll only discuss with somebody who is serious about it, and only after they sign a confidentiality agreement.

regards.

http://www.emex.com.au