{"id":35623,"date":"2017-02-19T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=35623"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:49:42","slug":"shady-deals-how-pauline-hanson-left-a-gold-coast-buyer-with-legal-costs-qldaah-qldpol-auspol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/shady-deals-how-pauline-hanson-left-a-gold-coast-buyer-with-legal-costs-qldaah-qldpol-auspol\/","title":{"rendered":"Shady deals: How Pauline Hanson left a Gold Coast buyer with legal costs – @Qldaah #qldpol #auspol"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pauline and Adam Hanson have been trying to offload their Gold Coast property at Biggera Waters since 2008.<\/h6>\n
\"Shady<\/h6>\n

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Larry Schlesinger<\/a> from the Australian Financial Review<\/em>\u00a0reported in 2016 that Pauline Hanson and her son Adam were once again attempting to sell their Gold Coast property.<\/p>\n

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According to CoreLogic records, she tried to flog it in August 2008 for $298,000 – a month before Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers went broke triggering the credit crunch,” he wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

She had another go in 2010 with a reduced $279,000 asking price at the same time as she announced plans to deregister Pauline’s United Australia Party and move to the UK. She later changed her mind telling the Sun-Herald<\/em><\/a> the UK was “overrun with immigrants and refugees”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shedding some light on why it may have taken so long to sell, Fairfax’s\u00a0Lucy Macken<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jennifer Duke<\/a>\u00a0followed up in a\u00a0Domain <\/em>article on February 3, 2017. They\u00a0revealed that the property had finally been sold but was unable to be settled due to outstanding legal costs.<\/p>\n

The sale of the two-bedroom apartment in Biggera Waters exchanged last November for $265,000, but never completed before a caveat was lodged on title by Marino Law partners Robert and Ben Marino,” they wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

The stymied sales transaction has left the buyer Wendy Carrafa gob-smacked and unable to pay her own outstanding rates notice on the property because it is not held in her name.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know where I stand and I\u2019m left in the lurch until it\u2019s all sorted out. I have the body corporate details in my name but the title can\u2019t be in my name until the caveat is lifted,\u201d Carrafa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told that it [the caveat] was put on it for money owed to another solicitor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both journalists pursued the story further and were able to reveal more on the scandal in Domain<\/em>\u00a0today. The Hansons continued to refuse to comment.<\/p>\n

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Carrafa was told by her own lawyer that the caveat was on behalf of another law firm seeking payment for outstanding legal debts owed by Adam Hanson, and that the purchase could not be finalised until it was paid and the caveat removed,” they wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

The stymied sale left Carrafa\u00a0with her name on the building\u2019s body corporate, but not on title.<\/p>\n

The legal tussle that followed has finally seen the caveat removed and Carrafa has secured her ownership of the Biggera Waters apartment, but she is now laden with an outstanding $550 legal bill of her own that she says should be paid by the Hansons.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of it all I\u2019m the one who has been left with the legal bill,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy $550 fee in legal fees will only go up while I fight it,\u201d Carrafa said. \u201cAs I told my solicitor, \u2018I\u2019m sorry I don\u2019t think I should have to pay it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrafa\u2019s lawyer Stephen Jensen, from Monkey Conveyancing, said he has sought those costs from the Hansons\u2019 lawyer, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows a lack of respect for one\u2019s own actions,\u201d said Jensen. \u201cRegardless of the law, the moral view is this is your mess, you should clean it up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms Carrafa told Domain<\/em> she was once a One Nation supporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a widow and was buying this apartment in good faith for my disabled sister to live in. It\u2019s not fair that they\u2019ve lumped me with this extra bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrafa told Domain last week she had previously been a bit of a fan of Senator Hanson, but not anymore. \u201cThis has left a bad taste in my mouth. I\u2019m really quite disappointed and disheartened in Pauline Hanson.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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