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    owner not paying corporate body fees

    I don't actually live in the same state as this IP (which is Slacks Creek Qld in this case...right near Seachange's IP's no doubt :D ), and right now I'm not even in the coutry again (had to pop over to Germany for business and managed to catch the F1 GP at the Nurburgring on the weekend as an...
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    owner not paying corporate body fees

    Thats was indeed my thoughts with the outstanding monies coming out of the proceeds. I guess it all boils down to how long do you wait. The owner may well live there for another 30 years whilst our fences fall over (and there are in a really bad state and I've had to re-post the fences to stop...
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    owner not paying corporate body fees

    Hi all, I've got a bit of a issue with one of my IP's thats forms a 6 pack of townhouses. Well as it turns out, one of the other owners has been refusing to pay corporate body fees for the last 3 years now. Naturally the body corp has been legally chasing her up to get this money back which...
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    Employed off shore?

    Indeed dangerous. I get paid from offshore and although I could choose not to declare the income, I do declare it and pay Aussie tax. I do not have to pay GST naturally. When I get paid into my US bank account, the companies I'm dealing with have to use my company ABN number. I have no...
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    House Swap, House Sitting

    Oh yeah they do indeed have an opinion and view on everything! And they always have to talk about all their issues. I decided pretty early on that if Americans didn't have issues or dilemmas to talk and moan about all the time, then they simply didn't feel normal. One guy I was working with...
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    House Swap, House Sitting

    My parents have done this twice now. Once in NZ and once in the US. One went very smooth and the other and the other...not so smooth. The second one with the Americans was a very trying time. The Americans basically wanted to control everything on both ends. These swaps involved houses...
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    Vic Surfcoast property

    Reply: 1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1 From: Julian Merritt They were my feelings exactly that as land becomes more restricted down along the coast, and given that councils down there have also implemented a minium block size requirement, that property prices would hold their own during boom and bust...
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