If you have not been provided with a costs agreement that complies with the legal profession act you should investigate further.

If we charged by the hour and everything was done by a soli it would often top that. We charge fixed and in some cases though at under a third of that.

Terry is on the money as usual.

We do a bit of conveyancing on NRAS properties

It is interesting that the purchase price often has to be negotiated down after a valuation doesn't stack up.  Some are great from the word go, others seem to inflate the NRAS benefit.

Andrew Allen

Outstanding bloke and great service.  Knows his stuff.

Agree.  Expensive to try and change.  IT is possible but are you sure it is worth it when you could just use different materials

The agent I deal with all the time has a very negative opinion about your no 3 option.  May be a hard sell if it is floodable land/

Hi MM

Student rooming also

Yes loads of people

D

Hi

Are you making any other changes to the trust?

The change of trustee in itself does not constitute a dutiable transaction, s 117 Duties Act

Hi Richard

I was coming from the perspective that there are more often than not ways that you can do things, in this case you could probably find a way to do it if you took a somewhat liberal approach to the truth.  Would I help them find it no.

D

Is it possible? Most likely.

Is it ethical? Highly unlikely.

Although have a fire rated wall between me and my lovely wife would sometimes be appealing, especially to her.  On secondthought maybe we could be the kids on one side and us on the other.

Hi Kara

This is very Council specific.  Can you tell us the Council

Anthony.

Could you please tell me which law that permits that?
Free advice. Have you heard of pro bono?

Anthony

Where did I say lawyers were gods. Heaps of lawyers are absolutely hopeless.  

I discussed the legal side of it. There are numerous cases that outline what accountants can not do.

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Hi 

Yes it does. 
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Mapping also allows:
– measuring of area
-writing on maps
– checking of zoning against current scheme.

It has numerous overlays the current one doesn't.  The boys and girls at BCC should be proud of themselves, it is a monumental task and I am yet to find a bug,

D

Sunshine Coast is the worst performer of my newer planning practices so far.
D

Yep. I have a couple of architects who work that way.

I also always bill my own entity when I develop, I do not believe in giving away time. If your time/ professional fees are included it ensures your figures still add up.

Good at Marketing

And NSW doesn't like Disc trusts for land tax reasons either.

Hopefully they follow through with the removal of duty on transfer of units this time around