Nicole helps … a reader escape a dodgy debt collection demand – The Age

Hi Nicole,

I am being pursued by a debt collector (and their lawyers) because I am refusing to pay an invoice, something I have NEVER done before. I was selling my house off-market and the licensed conveyancer I employed to draw up the contract of sale made basic errors (including muddling up the terms ‘vendor’ and ‘purchaser’) and added all sorts of unnecessarily complicated conditions.

The buyer asked for the mistakes fixed, and other changes, ahead of our agreed time for signing the contract, but the conveyancer refused and insisted they sign the paperwork “as was”. Unsurprisingly, the buyer walked. So not …