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SELLING THROUGH AN AMIGO?
REBECCA SERWOTKA “We sell houses! It’s what we do, it’s ALL we do!” Your favourite local resale property expert, of Inmobiliaria Real Estate Agents in Ciudad Quesada. Published author of ‘Moving Forward 25 Essential Rules For Buying & Selling Real Estate Without Going Crazy’. Request your FREE copy! Featured on Best Buy Spain. Prestige Award Winner for ‘Real Estate Agency Of The Year 2021/22 & 2022/23’.
Using a friend to sell your home? This choice is full of risks, but more importantly, it could jeopardise the success of your home sale.
Using a family member or friend can become fraught. They’ll find it difficult to advise you on price.
You’ll naturally want as much as you can get, but they daren’t tell you the true value as they could hurt your feelings. It’s difficult to disagree on price when it’s between family or friends.
If the house doesn’t sell quickly enough, tension grows, and things get awkward.
Even friends want paying! Using a friend, you may think would save you money. However they’ll be expecting to be paid too! This is the ultimate cringeworthy dialogue, that no one wants to have with a friend.
Money is the highest reason for destroying friendships the fastest. If you want to keep your friendly relationship going use an independent Real Estate Agent!
THE week that Gary Glitter was released from prison after serving around half of his sentence for child sex crimes has raised the general question; are some crimes just too awful to ever allow the perpetrator to be released?
The prison system developed by the Victorians is based broadly on three basics principles. It is there to punish criminals, to keep members of the public safe from them, and to rehabilitate them.
But are some people simply beyond rehabilitation?
Glitter had already been convicted twice previously for child sex crimes before his most recent stint at a prison in the UK. Does that suggest that mindset of someone who has been reformed and is safe to be among the general public, or the pattern of someone who will offend again?
Beyond the danger to the public that some convicts pose, there is the cost involved in then keeping them safe once they are outside of prison. In Glitter’s case, there was a disturbance outside his bail hostel a day after he was released.
Taxpayer money will now need to be used to protect Glitter from the general public, not the other way around should there be any threats to his safety. This hardly seems to serve as either vengeance to his victims or as any form of common sense, particularly at a time when the UK is going through a cost of living crisis.
Of course, keeping him in prison is expensive too. But at least that way, the disgraced pop star’s victims could have slept a little sounder.
Shellacking for UV lamps
PROFESSIONAL manicurists questioned scientists’ claims that ultraviolet lamps used to harden shellac nail lacquers are a skin cancer risk.
Doug Schoon, a chemist from the Nail Manufacturing Council, said the findings were “biased and unfair” as the researchers used highpowered UV lamps and exposed cultured skin cells 20 minutes a day for three consecutive days.
He added a customer typically puts a hand under a lamp for three minutes each session and most go only two or three times a month.
“Millions have regularly used these lamps for more than 20 years and the bulk of scientific evidence shows that UV nail lamps are safe, when used properly,” Schoon said.
