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No, You Cannot Simply Cancel the Sale
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No, You Cannot Simply Cancel the Sale

A sales agreement is a legally binding document and anyone who attempts to back out of a property purchase for spurious reasons may well land up in hot water. One of the most common ways a buyer will attempt to cancel the ...

No, you cannot simply cancel the house sale
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No, you cannot simply cancel the house sale

It’s not uncommon for buyers to try to cancel a house sale after signing the contract. Private Property discusses the implications of breaching a sale contract.

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Overpricing your property

Virtually every person who decides to sell their property believes that the property is worth much more than what it actually is.

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Money laundering

If truth be told, banks, lawyers, cell phone companies and indeed any company offering accounts must be drowning under a barrage of paperwork. South Africahas strict laws aimed at reducing money laundering and crime and as such, ...

Offer to purchase agreement
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Offer to purchase agreement

An offer to purchase may not be worth the paper it is written on if the buyer is not in a solid financial position.

Sales agreements
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Sales agreements

A sales agreement should always reflect the date of occupation as well as the amount of occupational rent to be paid,.

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Protect yourself from bogus landlords

Although the Internet has made it easier to find a property to rent, it has also made it far easier for those intent on scamming you out of your money to make a living. While this has been going on for some time, a recent ...

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Investing in a buy-to-let

The latest TPN (Tenant Profile Network) report, according to Stats SA, mentions that 75% of landlords are actually micro-landlords (own one to ten properties and rent them out). If you are this type of landlord it is important ...

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Turning a bad building around

It sometimes happens that sectional title buildings encounter problems of mismanagement and become run down, even possibly unsafe in some cases and where the trustees have not taken due care of the management of the building. It ...