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Searches can't be started on an OTP until registration is achieved in any case. The searches referred to above would be what we would recommend, but if it were me personally, I wouldn't do TMR or contaminated land, however its not a massive saving when you are spending thousands. I would...

I am amazed that your lawyer has initialled an amendment to a contract settlement date! I am a conveyancer working for a lawyer, and this would never be done in our office in a million years! Transfer documents have to be signed and returned to the seller's solicitors - this is standard...

If you hold as joint tenants, you could sever the tenancy so it is converted to tenants in common - each party still owns half each, but in the event of either owner passing away, the will of the deceased dictate who gets the half share owned by the deceased. That way, you could leave your...

I've heard of them on the sales side, but not property management.

Nah, not yet, can't rush these things you know. :D

Will be interesting to see how it works. I work in conveyancing in Qld, and I can't see how it will work, but what would I know lol!

I have one IP in Caboolture South (small 3 bedroom) in quite a good area and its been consistently rented for the 5 years I've had it. I may actually end up living there (not the IP) at some point. I wouldn't buy where I wouldn't live myself.

Yes that's correct. As registration was only recent, rates were on the block as a whole. DNRM will need a new valuation on both blocks and rates will then issue on each separate lot, backdated I believe to the date of registration. Hope that makes sense.

Lol, I have an investment house at Cabo, but its Cabo South if that makes a difference lol.

Your solicitor is not a pest/building person - you should be telling them what you want, not them telling you.

To my children as my husband passed 6 months ago. If they die without children, it goes half to my siblings, half to my husband's siblings.

As advised by pp, in Qld, insurance risk passes to buyer at 5pm on 1st business day after contract signed.

I am pretty sure you can't legally rent the property out unless a pool safety certificate is in existence in any case.

My understanding is that the tenant must be an existing tenant and that they can only stay for a maximum period of six months after settlement. It is all set out in the Form 2.1.

We see lots of contracts with only $500 to $1000 deposit, not 5% at all. Some of them will have a small payment up front with a larger deposit when it goes unconditional. As long as the contract is subject to finance and/or pest and building, you should get the whole deposit back if your...

Solicitors do searches, but not the survey - usually the buyer would organise this direct with the surveyor to my knowledge

In Qld, it is up to the Seller to provide this, so the agent is talking out of his **** in my opinion.

We go to church every week and had no problems at all in getting our oldest into private high school (not catholic) for next year. The kids aren't baptised either, as we don't believe in that until the child decides for himself/herself when they are ready.

All we received was the letter from the Solicitors (which I did myself as I work there lol) and the letters from RAMS who financed us.

You as the seller are liable for the registration fee on your the Release of Mortgage and your bank's costs for attending settlement. Why should the buyer have to wear that? The release registration fee usually gets deducted from your settlement amount at settlement and the banks generally add...