If you’ve ever bought a new home, then you know the drill. You decide to sell, and the real work begins. 2 huge phases are needed: (1) get your current home ready to put on the market, and (2) get the new home ready once you move in. Within those 2 phases there are 2 […]
Depreciation Report
Selling Your Strata or Condo: Preparing for the Dreaded Home Inspection
If you’ve ever bought a new home, then you know the drill. You decide to sell, and the real work begins. 2 huge phases are needed: (1) get your current home ready to put on the market, and (2) get the new home ready once you move in. Within those 2 phases there are 2 […]
Predictive Analysis and Your Banker: What Your Banker Wants to See to Approve a Mortgage, and How Predictive Analysis Provides That
A friend told us how they cleaned their home top to bottom to prepare for the Bank inspection for their Mortgage renewal. They wanted to make the best impression to get favourable terms. When you live in a Strata your banker not only looks at the inside of your home, the part you own, but […]
Financial Planning for your Strata
Our suite of financial planning tools can be used by your Council and Manager to explore the consequences of the financial choices that the owners of a complex would prefer. Some owners want to minimize short term costs and rely on special levies. Other owners prefer to invest a little more now to avoid high […]
Disaster Recovery Planning and Predictive Analysis
I spent the majority of my career writing Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for Technology divisions of large corporations. (a DRP is a pre-written set of actions to take when a disaster makes your Tech operationsunable to function) The one thing I learned and observed more than any other factor, was that Tech overseers tend to not believe such […]
Rowboats, Motorboats and Helicopters
There’s an old proverb that tells the story of a man who, during a flood that was ravaging his home, ended up sitting on the roof of his house, praying for help. Someone in a row boat came along and said “get in!” but the man on the roof said “No, I’m praying for help.” […]