Running a Business in a Residential Area – Check Your Zoning First!
“ It is unquestionable that an owner of land us not permitted to perform activities which contravene the restrictive title conditions or the zoning restrictions” (extract from judgement below) You decide to open a home business, or perhaps you are […]
Read MoreDoes an Expired Lease Automatically Continue Month-to-Month? At What Rental?
“Close your eyes – Landlord knocking On the back door* (Jack Kerouac; Northport Haiku) Your residential fixed-term lease expires but for whatever reason you don’t sign a new one. Nor does the lease say anything about what will happen on […]
Read MoreBefore You Start a New Small Business in 2020 …
“Just do it!” (Nike) You and your fantastic business idea can’t wait to chuck up the 9 to 5 job and launch your own new venture. 2020 here we come! But is this the right time to do it? Of […]
Read MoreProperty Sales and Trusts: Demand Proof of Trustee Authority
“If you want to make your house easy to sell, make it easy to buy” (Anon) You are overjoyed at receiving a good offer for your property – not easily achieved in these hard times – and, of course, you […]
Read More“Seller’s Remorse” and “Subject to Sale of the Buyer’s Property” – Can They Sink the Sale?
“If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree” (Jim Rohn) The upcoming festive season, with its mass migrations of happy holiday-makers to their dream destinations, has always been a busy time for both sellers and […]
Read MoreLandlord vs Tenant: When Can You Cut Electricity or Change the Locks?
“Spoliation is the wrongful deprivation of another’s right of possession. The aim of spoliation is to prevent self-help. It seeks to prevent people from taking the law into their own hands… The cause of possession is irrelevant – that is […]
Read MoreYour Will: What You Can Do and Can’t Do
“Where there’s a will, I want to be in it” (Anon) Your will (“Last Will and Testament “) is quite possibly the most important document you will ever sign. Without a properly executed will you put your loved ones at […]
Read MoreBeware of Property Cyber Scammers
“Forewarned is Forearmed!” (Wise old saying) Why yet another warning about cyber-scams in the property industry? It’s because the hard fact is that the criminals are winning this war. In fact we are now reportedly the “second most targeted country […]
Read MoreProperty Transfers and Trust Account Theft: A R720, 000 Warning
“The issue of whether a conveyancing attorney receives the money as the agent of the seller, or of the purchaser, or of both, or as trustees for both to await the event, is a somewhat vexed question … and each […]
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You Signed a Property Sale Agreement, Can You Still Accept a Better Offer?
You put your property on the market and an acceptable but not-perfect offer come in. On the “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” principle you want to accept the offer even though it’s not ideal. […]
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