Buying property whether it’s a first home or an investment, taking out a home loan is the biggest financial commitment anyone ever makes. Unless they buy a boat – which is simply a sign of complete madness and suggests investigation into a different kind of commitment. The home loan journey is one that is takenRead more about Checking Out Home Loan Options: How Much Research is Enough?[…]

Australia’s Summers are associated with relentless heat, dryness, and scorching sunshine. But, it doesn’t have to be boring. Although many people shelter in their homes to catch some cool air-conditioned frostiness, this can be a great time for adventure. For some hardy fools, they think it’s an excellent time to brave the Hay River Track.Read more about Is It Safe to Brave the Hay River Track in Summer?[…]

Do we live in an Age of Paedophilia, or, is it, just, a case of greater scrutiny bringing it to light? Childrens’ entertainers like Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile have highlighted the betrayal of trust that can occur in this realm. So, childrens’ entertainers and carers: who checks them out? The Blue Card system isRead more about Children’s Entertainers & Carers: Who Checks Them Out?[…]

If you really want the best electrician, then, it pays to do some research into who you might be contracting to do the job. Finding a certified electrician isn’t enough: word of mouth is best. Word of mouth, also, lives on the Internet, where you can find recommendations on social media platforms like Twitter, FacebookRead more about Finding A Certified Electrician Isn’t Enough: Word Of Mouth Is Best[…]

Here in Australia, let’s face it, we are masters of the laid-back lifestyle. She’ll be right mate. No worries. All good sport. Our culture and society have been described as growing out of a brutal meritocracy, which was established in our convict past. We let people do their own thing, if it does not directlyRead more about Checking On Tradies Who Visit Your Home[…]

 When things don’t go accordingly to plan, and the resultant situation goes belly up, what do you do? Look around for someone to blame. This is the ethos of the 21C; and why young kiddies are lining up to become lawyers down the track. Blame and compensation are the panacea for individuals living and workingRead more about Checking Up on Adversaries In Legal Battles: What’s Kosher & What’s Not?[…]

When we engage a contractor to do some work on or around our homes, we are inviting an unknown agency into our sanctuary. We do not know who this person is, we only know that they are advertising their services on the basis of their proficiency with the task required. The contractor may or mayRead more about How to Do a Background Check on Contractors Working in Your Home[…]

In Australia, property laws are the provenance of the states, each state has its own Property Law Act, but they do agree on most points of law of course. Residents and businesses own the rubbish they place in their own bins, until it is collected and taken away by waste management companies. So, it isRead more about Checking People’s Rubbish For Evidence: The Privacy Legalities[…]

The Internet has been a great boon for background checks, because it is primarily an electronic record of everything. The digital sphere captures whatever it turns its focus upon and today the whole world is pretty much digital. In this age of specialisation, where we outsource a great deal of the areas that we lackRead more about Before Putting a Disabled Family Member into Care: Check Them![…]

You are in pain and you desperately want to find relief at the hands of a trusted and effective healer. It’s easy to find a chiropractor, physiotherapist, osteopath or podiatrist, right? Just type the word into Google and away you go. But hang on a minute, do you really believe what you read online to trustRead more about Checking Up On a Chiropractor or Osteopath: Your Body Will Thank You[…]

It may sound crazy to concern yourself with the ethical nature of your furniture and where it came from, but for those who are green down to their knickers and socks it definitely isn’t. We are what we eat and we are what we wear, and in addition we are what we furnish our homesRead more about Is Your Furniture Ethically Sourced?[…]

Marketing for many people is a dirty word; and the people who inhabit this world are often considered shonksters by those who have proper jobs. But love them or hate them, modern business needs marketers. You can make or sell the best product in the universe, but if nobody knows that you exist you willRead more about Which Marketing Company Is for You? Can You Check Them?[…]

Have you ever been an employer? Have you ever faced the situation where you are in the process of hiring someone and you are just not quite sure about them? It is often a matter of how great your need is, or to put it another way, how desperate you are for staff. Unfortunately, whenRead more about Paranoid or Psychic? Guessing A Person’s Background Is Hazardous[…]

Have you ever had the experience of being challenged over the phone about money you owe? You have, you no good welcher, remind me never to lend you any money! Just joking, of course. Many of us have found ourselves in the delicate situation of having over committed ourselves financially; it is not a hangingRead more about Debt Collectors On the Phone: Your Background or Theirs?[…]

Is there any worse experience than jagging a huge win on an outsider in a horse race and discovering that your bookmaker won’t pay up? Bookmakers who don’t pay up: check them out online first to avoid serious disappointment. Just because someone presents themselves as a bookmaker, carrying the bag or having a website, doesRead more about Bookmakers Who Don’t Pay Up: Check Them Out Online First[…]

Life demands of some of us an exemplary public record. The Headmistress with a shady history is a lesson for us all. Teachers are, for all intents and purposes, in our modern societies, surrogate parents; we have all out-sourced our mentor responsibilities to paid professionals in regard to our children. Therefore, teachers, and especially PrincipalsRead more about The Headmistress with A Shady History: A Lesson for Us All[…]

The question whether anyone has the right to investigate another person’s life goes to the heart of the whole privacy issue. In the twenty first century does privacy, even, really exist anymore? Since the advent of the digital age, nearly everything is recorded somewhere. Tracking people’s dark pasts and pondering whether it is ethical or,Read more about Tracking People’s Dark Pasts: Ethical or Invasive?[…]

We all have our stories why we have lost contact with this and that. But the bottom line here, most people who are in search for missing person, long lost friend or a new hot chick you’ve met a week ago, turn into the internet to obtain more personal details about the particular subject. InternetRead more about How to Search People For Free[…]