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    Common Areas Fees

    As far as I know, an estate in Athenry Co Galway managed to successfully sue the developer for 6 years past maintenance fees based on a similar condition in the house deeds. (The 6 years is a legal limit) - I'm not sure if I should name the estate here, but please PM me for more info.... In...
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    Estate not in Charge of Council

    You should probably check if there is a need for public liability insurance in the estate and who would be responsible for this. Also, in more recent estates that have not been taken in charge, it is likely for the common areas to be owned by the original developer. Under the MUD act, these...
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    Offence to lie on planning application form?

    Just to clarify, it is not me who is applying! The application is direct to ABP (strategic housing), so they won't know anything about the flooding, especially since floodmaps.ie hasn't been updated since 2014. While there are lots of offences to do with social housing and not adhering to...
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    Offence to lie on planning application form?

    Is there an actual offence for knowingly filling out a planning application form wrong, in this case for saying in the Site History that the site never flooded? I had a quick scan of the 2000 Act (consolidated version...
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    Buying Repossessed House

    Get your solicitor to do a "closing search" early on to show up any judgement mortgages against the property - if it is a repossession type scenario, it is quite likely that there may be other debts associated with the property. You will need to do it again at closing in case any judgements have...
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    Living In Ireland - Paid from UK

    One thing to be aware of if you set up in the UK is that I believe there is a maximum 2-year limit that you can work for a single company and the Inland Revenue are quite strict about this. If you are planning to work long-term for the same company, it may be better to be outside the UK.
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    NIB - No longer getting text message alerts

    Is everyone experiencing the problem on the same phone network by any chance?
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    Bad time to sell good time to buy

    except when you said prices are "rock bottom"
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    Car Service Galway City??

    I would definitely agree with kilduff's in nuns island - I have been using them for 6 years and found them excellent - and they were recommended to me by another mechanic that I trusted...
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    Galway - Lower Salary vs. Cost of Living

    this is a very important point...some call Galway "the graveyard of ambition".....
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    Why (the state) bailing out housing market is a bad idea..mcwilliams indo article

    Re: Why bailing out housing market is a very bad idea people hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.....
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    Why (the state) bailing out housing market is a bad idea..mcwilliams indo article

    Re: Why bailing out housing market is a very bad idea Global population was also increaing rapidly back in the 80's but that didn't lead to immigration
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    bulmers ad - waterside pub

    I have a vague recollection of hearing that the pub was in New Zealand!...
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    Size of car parking space

    What is the standard size for a car parking space in an apartment/housing development that has shared parking? I have checked the local (Galway) development plan, and I could only find a definition for when the parking space is in the front garden : "Where on site car-parking space is to...
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    Recommend a camera?

    here is a good website for nikon comparisons... [broken link removed] Currys are doing a good offer with nikon d40x at 620 euro, and d40 at 450 euro or something like that, plus you can get up to 60 euro cashback with the current Nikon offer [broken link removed]
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