Explore a new area, is it like a horror movie, do you have great expectations or is it reminiscent of Neighbours? When you are exploring a new area, your hopes, optimism, and life goals are at the forefront of your mind. It’s all good, all positive, until you actually buy. You are confident in your…
BUYER DISSONANCE Success, you won the bid, your offer was the best, your home search is over. Watching other homes that were high on the list to pursue, happy because you were successful at auction and don’t need to worry about the nervous tension of being the winning bid (because you achieved THAT goal), and…
Consumer Affairs Victoria “Underquoting” Underquoting can occur when a property is advertised at a price that: Under Victoria’s underquoting laws, estate agents and agents’ representatives have obligations relating to: These laws complement the false and misleading representation provisions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). For more about the ACL provisions, see Advertising and representations. The…
A Week in My Life – July 15 2024 Creating a list and checking it twice. Sounds like something Father Christmas does but in reality when you are preparing to sell your TO DO list tends to get more added to it each time you check it. You want to paint, you need to take…
A Week in My Life, 8th July 2024 Each week I look at auction numbers, I find them fascinating. The other numbers I am spending time on currently are temperatures around and about our great state. If it’s 1 degrees here, what is it on the Mornington Peninsula, or in Mansfield, that kind of thing….
A Week in My Life, 1st July 2024 How are you coping with the Winter? I am feeling envious of my daughter Tam who has moved to Karratha in WA, It’s 17 over there and 1 here as I type! 1 degree and according to my phone, it also feels like 1. You may laugh…
A Week in My Life, 24th of June 2024 The more you do something, the more you learn. If you only do something once in a long while then the steps you need to take are not very clear. When we learn something, repetition, making the task familiar, makes it easier to remember. Most processes…
A Week in My Life, June 17th 2024 “Hello, are you there? Is anybody listening…” A friend, my longest-known friend (so much nicer than saying my oldest!) contacted me on Saturday and said “Hello, Are you free to catch up soon?” Real estate was hard yakka. You were basically working 7 days a week, always afraid…
A Week in My Life, June 10th 2024 What do I love about my work? Helping people buy their very first home. Helping people buy their first home after divorce Helping people who need advice about what they should do when they sell their home to maximise their sale price. My week in real estate…
A Week in My Life – June 3 2024 Packing is EXHAUSTING! The opportunity to delve into every book, the joy of rediscovering an old favourite or the Aha! Moment because you find a book that you thought you had bought but once it made it in your door you never saw it again! Getting…