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[PoppedCorn]

Bloody hell StFly
I've only just caught up
Sorry for the loss mate, sad news indeed
Prob no consolation but it can't be worse where he is now than here.

Vent away mate
We all hear to listen

 

[Mowman]

Dear BF friends,
your Christmas gift this year... is me thats right,
another year of friendship. Your membership has been renewed.


Enjoy you lucky buggers

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Dear BF friends,
your Christmas gift this year... is me thats right,
another year of friendship. Your membership has been renewed.


Enjoy you lucky buggers

Still waiting…

 

[Mowman]

Still waiting…

Good things take time
It’s a process, wheels are in motion

 

[sammm]

So haven't been up to it, but, suffice to say, my vigil ended yesterday evening.

This is a somewhat freeing and mostly entirely s**t experience, though did manage to come home last night and then cry to my neighbour so... there is that I suppose. Amazing that 24hrs later I can type it but speaking it still a bit hard you know?

I like to think that since I was speaking to my younger sister and it was quite frank at the time, he just decided then and there to leave us to it.

I'm sorry for your loss. It's a really hard time at the moment for you. Take care of yourself, keep eating and talk about it if you want.

 

[PoppedCorn]

How's all the hoohar with the jbhifi extended warranty fiasco

Lol

 

[George]

Dear BF friends,
your Christmas gift this year... is me thats right,
another year of friendship. Your membership has been renewed.


Enjoy you lucky buggers

You are a good bloke and many would love a beer with you

 

[Mowman]

Wife says I keep pushing her buttons. If that were true, i would have found 'mute' by now

 

[Mowman]

You are a good bloke and many would love a beer with you

Goes without saying, I’m an absolute ripper

 

[George]

How's all the hoohar with the jbhifi extended warranty fiasco

Lol

Big sale on at JB tomorrow only. Wonder if it's just the removal of pointless warranty lol

 

[George]

Goes without saying, I’m an absolute ripper

I often wish that I was you

 

[Mowman]

I often wish that I was you

Yeah I can understand that

 

[triggering bro]

This chick that I worked with around 10 years ago tried to add me on Instagram last week and I ignored it, then she popped up on chat and tried it on with me. Showed the missus, we both had a hearty chuckle, and she popped up again tonight asking to meet up. We devised a cunning plan to send her to Revs with the promise that I'd be there.

Looking forward to tomorrow's developments

 

[George]

You're back with a bang as usual

 

[George]

Almost through the new WW2 doco on Netflix. Just imagining Mowman in those conditions, little man would probably piss his pants within the first hour and give up his whole platoon after crying for his mummy

Shambolic state of it

 

[SaintsSeptember]

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Bruchetta with homegrown tomatoes, roquette, basil and garlic

The word Roquette is no more legitimate than Rocket.
If you are french, all and good, otherwise you are simply being pretentious.

Both Roquette and Rocket are similarly bastardized versions of the italian word.

 

[DougalHoward]

The word Roquette is no more legitimate than Rocket.
If you are french, all and good, otherwise you are simply being pretentious.

Both Roquette and Rocket are similarly bastardized versions of the italian word.

I'm scared of gringo calling me a bogan that buys his rocket a coles

 

[gringo2011]

I'm scared of gringo calling me a bogan that buys his rocket a coles

Bogan.

 

[George]

Bogan.

****ing ruthless campaigner you are

 

[gringo2011]

The word Roquette is no more legitimate than Rocket.
If you are french, all and good, otherwise you are simply being pretentious.

Both Roquette and Rocket are similarly bastardized versions of the italian word.

Quiet now turnip.

 

[StFly]

I'm sorry for your loss. It's a really hard time at the moment for you. Take care of yourself, keep eating and talk about it if you want.

Well I was the last one to see my mother alive, was in the room with the younger sister when the old man died after just telling her that if it was my choice, I'd walk out that door as didn't want to see another death in front of me of a parent. It then happened, so seared in my memory is the death of both my parents who I tried to be primary carer for when at home.

About the eating part... the other sister doesn't like anything I had already bought, brought herself microwave meals, doesn't like spicy food, gave me a "very disappointed" talk about the house when I was you know, in visiting him almost daily for like 8hrs+ and in same breath not taking any of the suggestions to fix. So on one side, I have that sister who since airforce is very in your face and confrontational about how you failed to meet her expectations, on the other hand you have the younger sis who was very much daddys girl, whose house I was just at for almost 3 hours as she has NFI how to work anything at her place electrical when we need copies of a will to be certified tomorrow after we spoke with the celebrant for the funeral on Friday after the aforementioned sister just washed her hands and ditched me at her place and drove away.

So I've just now ordered dinner as CBF cooking, and she wants to incur council wrath by putting prohibited things in bins for tomorrow.

TLDR: don't be a middle child. Nothing but pain and suffering.

2nd TLDR: as she wants to sell the estate and I'm in a position to buy out her share, how much of a prick would I be if I did and told her to go back off to her NSW life? Was happy to do the place up, rent it out, move myself, just was never my name on the title to do half the things required.

Oh and as I don't have pets, her dog also slobbered over both pants legs, like literal "this is now damp and moist" slobber, so yeah, not quite happy about things at present as I did washing literally yesterday...

 

[George]

Well I was the last one to see my mother alive, was in the room with the younger sister when the old man died after just telling her that if it was my choice, I'd walk out that door as didn't want to see another death in front of me of a parent. It then happened, so seared in my memory is the death of both my parents who I tried to be primary carer for when at home.

About the eating part... the other sister doesn't like anything I had already bought, brought herself microwave meals, doesn't like spicy food, gave me a "very disappointed" talk about the house when I was you know, in visiting him almost daily for like 8hrs+ and in same breath not taking any of the suggestions to fix. So on one side, I have that sister who since airforce is very in your face and confrontational about how you failed to meet her expectations, on the other hand you have the younger sis who was very much daddys girl, whose house I was just at for almost 3 hours as she has NFI how to work anything at her place electrical when we need copies of a will to be certified tomorrow after we spoke with the celebrant for the funeral on Friday after the aforementioned sister just washed her hands and ditched me at her place and drove away.

So I've just now ordered dinner as CBF cooking, and she wants to incur council wrath by putting prohibited things in bins for tomorrow.

TLDR: don't be a middle child. Nothing but pain and suffering.

2nd TLDR: as she wants to sell the estate and I'm in a position to buy out her share, how much of a prick would I be if I did and told her to go back off to her NSW life? Was happy to do the place up, rent it out, move myself, just was never my name on the title to do half the things required.

I paid out my younger brother and sister after my dad died. My parents had split by the time my dad passed away so I was next of kin, and at the time my brother was 16 and sister was 12. I was 23 and the only one of us working so had to pay back whatever was left of his estate so when it came time to sort out the property they owed me quite a bit of money and so it was easier for everyone for me to pay them out their share (a 3rd of the value of the property minus what they owed me) instead of sell the property. To value the property fairly we got both a market appraisal and a sworn valuation, and met in the middle of the two.

It really depends on how close you are with your siblings. In my case we are all extremely close so everything was done in good faith but I also wanted to add a layer to that to show them nobody was ripping anyone off. You obviously don't have to stick to whatever the property is worth to determine the payout if you all decide to just agree on a figure yourselves.

You also have more say in the matter if you can show that you've maintained the property and have lived there for more than 12 months, this includes any renovations, required fixes, paying bills, and supporting anyone else in the home. A judge would look favourably at your case - I went through some stuff after my dad passed away that I don't think anyone my age (at the time) would be able to handle - long story, but I'd know lol.

And if you decide to go with what she wants and sell the property, I assume she's still going to be up in NSW anyway?

 

[George]

I also had the estate contested by a money hungry family member so I have been through the courts, escalated to the Supreme Court, mediations, 2 years of lawyers and paperwork, and a law changed in Vic for minors and wills lol - if you need any help feel free to PM me mate

 

[StFly]

I paid out my younger brother and sister after my dad died. My parents had split by the time my dad passed away so I was next of kin, and at the time my brother was 16 and sister was 12. I was 23 and the only one of us working so had to pay back whatever was left of his estate so when it came time to sort out the property they owed me quite a bit of money and so it was easier for everyone for me to pay them out their share (a 3rd of the value of the property minus what they owed me) instead of sell the property. To value the property fairly we got both a market appraisal and a sworn valuation, and met in the middle of the two.

It really depends on how close you are with your siblings. In my case we are all extremely close so everything was done in good faith but I also wanted to add a layer to that to show them nobody was ripping anyone off. You obviously don't have to stick to whatever the property is worth to determine the payout if you all decide to just agree on a figure yourselves.

You also have more say in the matter if you can show that you've maintained the property and have lived there for more than 12 months, this includes any renovations, required fixes, paying bills, and supporting anyone else in the home. A judge would look favourably at your case - I went through some stuff after my dad passed away that I don't think anyone my age (at the time) would be able to handle - long story, but I'd know lol.

And if you decide to go with what she wants and sell the property, I assume she's still going to be up in NSW anyway?

Yep, she'll be in NSW, me and the younger sister are the two that remained to assist. I've been the one maintaining, currently have phone and net bills in my name for this address, water+gas+elec in his as pensioner, I have paid all previously at one time or another. if it came to the courts then yeah, I could prove as such.

She's intimated that she's fine to be bought out, this is just, we settled on the wake location today, I paid for that in full after being the one to check them out whilst others did other things that fell through, and she has the gall to be disappointed in how I upkept the premises whilst calling ambulances every second goddamn week? That reminds me, time to visit the neighbour...

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

I also had the estate contested by a money hungry family member so I have been through the courts, escalated to the Supreme Court, mediations, 2 years of lawyers and paperwork, and a law changed in Vic for minors and wills lol - if you need any help feel free to PM me mate

We had to go through that a couple years ago with my grandfather. All because the lawyer that did wills for him and his wife forgot to add a bit.