Buying a house

It is important to be informed when you are buying or building your home. Consumerbuild is a useful website which believes in: Better housing through knowledge.

ConsumerBuild provides a range of clear, independent and up-to-date information on building, buying, renovating and maintaining houses in New Zealand.

It guides you through your responsibilities under the Building Act and other relevant legislation, helps you locate and work with builders, subcontractors and building professionals such as architects and engineers, and gives good practical advice about what you can and can’t do yourself.

ConsumerBuild keeps you in touch with the latest information coming from the building industry, such as the leaky houses issue and the Building Act.

All the information on this website is provided without charge. Where you are linked to additional information in another resource or website, for which you have to pay, this will be made clear.


To learn more about better housing through knowledge click this link and go to ConsumerBuild:
http://www.consumerbuild.org.nz/publish/buyinghouse.php


Source: http://www.consumerBuild.org.nz

Learning About the Care in Business of Real Estate

Over half way through my assignments to become a qualified real estate agent and I have discovered that trust and care in the professional real estate relationship are crucial to provide a good service which follows the real estate laws. I'm reassured by this because I do not want to just be a sales person. I have had too many years working in the community sector to disown my caring nature which has been trained to identify peoples needs and assist them with finding the supports that can help them.I have also worked in the mortgage and insurance sectors so I think I have a good balance of sales and marketing experience to balance things out.
I have decided that my niche in real estate will be assisting older people to sell and buy homes. They may want to sell their large home to downsize or move into a retirement village. I have been a Age Concern Field Officer and have worked with the elderly facing these changes and know that it can be particularly difficult to cope on thier own. Even family helping have a complex task becuase often their parents don't want to move, but need to. I know,my own Mother made it very difficult and it was important to me to be able to trust the real estate who managed the sale of her home.

Learning Social Mention