Conveyancing Kit Benefits

Apart from saving you perhaps $1000, our Conveyancing Kit gives you another big benefit - it makes you an informed consumer when you buy or sell real estate, and that can save you grief.

 

Signing a contract you don't really understand and then going off to a lawyer or "conveyancer" is a recipe for trouble. In most cases you are stuck with what you have signed - and high priced lawyers can't change that.

 

They might squabble with the other side (at great expense to you) but end up advising you that "caving in" is your only real option.

 

Even if you get a lawyer involved before you sign you are not much better off because of the limits to what they do. They don't see the property and they are not involved in negotiations for it - they just deal with the paperwork after the event.

 

In a book called "The Conveyancing Fraud", English solicitor Michael Joseph pointed out the obvious - you can't see faults in a property if you don't look - and conveyancers don't look. He said that paid conveyancing is a fraud because it leads people to believe they are "protected" in ways they are not. He said that in practice, the most important things are "left to chance".

 

The answer is to do it yourself. Find out how real estate is traded, and then keep personal control over it.

 

The benefits of DIY Conveyancing are:

• The conveyancing is being done by someone who actually sees the property (not by someone who sends you letters making you responsible if there are faults) 
• You have personal control
• You are aware of what is going on
• There is no possibility of conveyancer negligence.