The Sales of our property has been fraught with hidden obstacles and surprise fish hooks
Late 2020 was the time and we reached out to John again and we kicked off round two, the campaign started well and that should have been our first warning…… the council once again failed to deliver on its promise and continued with a barrage of changes to the “notice to fix” instead of the sign off that was due. John was able to navigate through these changes and delays during open homes and our auction was looking promising, with sign-off now gained from the council the auction was looking promising. During the week of the Auction the council issued a surprise Abatement notices requiring the already listed on the LIM “contaminated soil” (which is all throughout Avondale) be removed and replaced with “clean” soil, turning our plans to lumpy cold custard.
At this time you can imagine how challenging it must have been for John to then have to provide updates to this already demanding client – to put it bluntly, I was interested in the standard real-estate speak I was exhausted, frustrated and not interested in dealing with the vultures who thought they could get a cheap deal. John was able to manage purchaser expectations and the offers although sometimes cheeky were a decent starting point (even though he would often have to peel me off the ceiling).