The Rent Roll Coaching Team – Part 4 The Corporate Pub Test When contractual wording comes under pressure, the court’s task is to determine what a reasonable businessperson would have understood the words to mean. While that may sound like the corporate pub test, this fictional person does not decide what is fair, rewrite a poor bargain or rescue a party from an uncommercial deal. The inquiry is objective and begins with the words the parties used, read in the

The Rent Roll AFL Grand Final Play to the Final Siren This Saturday, the Brisbane Lions and the Fremantle Dockers will run onto the MCG with history waiting at either end of the ground. The Dockers finished the home-and-away season as minor premiers and will be appearing in only their second Grand Final. Victory would deliver them the first premiership in the club’s history. The Lions have a different piece of history within reach. They are chasing a third consecutive

The Rent Roll Coaching Team – Part 3 When the Game Plan Has to Change Good coaching is not abandoning the plan. It is knowing when to adjust it. Every rent roll transaction starts with a game plan. The price is agreed. Due diligence is mapped out. Finance dates are fixed. Settlement is circled on the calendar. Everyone knows where they are supposed to be and what they are supposed to do. Then the game starts. Finance takes longer than

The Rent Roll Coaching Team – Part 2 When the Game Gets Heated Sometimes the best advice is to keep the players on the field. Rent roll transactions can become emotional affairs. A management appointment is lost. The seller blames the buyer. The buyer blames the seller. Someone produces an email written three weeks earlier. Voices rise. Positions harden. Before long, everyone has forgotten about the rent roll and is concentrating on winning the argument. That is when the coaching

The Rent Roll Coaching Team Different Roles. Same Game Plan. In the Rent Roll State of Origin series, we looked at the importance of getting the selections right. In Backgammon Rent Roll, we considered the combination of skill, strategy and the occasional unhelpful roll of the dice. But even the best players benefit from a good coaching team. In a rent roll transaction, the Buyer and Seller are the players on the field. The broker and the solicitors do not

Rent Roll and Backgammon Skill, Luck and Knowing when to Double or Drop. Prepared by Damien Ingwersen, Senior Consultant, Adamson Legal Group | August 2026 The Rent Roll State of Origin series finished with a simple observation: In rent roll transactions, as in State of Origin, the result often comes down to getting the selections right. But once the selections have been made, another challenge begins. You still have to play the game. And That Brings Us to Backgammon Buying