{"id":1162,"date":"2010-03-18T23:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:51:29","slug":"expensiveindeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2010\/03\/18\/expensiveindeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Expensive In Deed"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a quick post, I am writing so I can reference it in a later post to keep it less cluttered. Think of it as a premonitional footnote.<\/div>\n

I have a legal deed showing proof of partial ownership of some land in South Australia, and I was told by a conveyancer (which is a job title that means something like “Lawyer Lite (Property-Edition)”) to store it safely.<\/p>\n

I treated it like a birth-certificate extract – a certified copy of a report on the contents of a carefully-controlled database, which would be a hassle to replace because I would need to pay some administration fee to re-run the report.<\/p>\n

I asked “If I lose it, does it really matter? What will it cost? $50 to replace?”. <\/p>\n

There was a nervous laugh at the other end of the phone. “Err… probably around $600.”<\/p>\n

“Oh!”<\/p>\n

I was going to go into a rant here questioning what century we are in, and how can we really have a system that depends on bits of paper that can be lost, damaged or stolen.<\/p>\n

But then I did some research for this post.<\/p>\n

It seems the “birth-certificate-like” concept for land has existed since the 1850s, when Torrens title was invented in, of all places, South Australia.<\/p>\n

And that getting the South Australian government to issue you a new certificate costs… $18.<\/p>\n

Which puts me in a quandrary. <\/p>\n

I don’t trust the Internet enough over the advice of a trained and experienced professional to treat the document with a cavalier attitude.<\/p>\n

But I do trust it enough not to rant and end up looking foolish.<\/p>\n

So, please just ignore this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to go into a rant questioning what century we are in…<\/p>\n

But then I did some research for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-cathartic-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}