Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on June 29, 2013, 01:00:28 am
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Does anyone know what a kookaburra oven is worth. Its been left in the garden & would be great forsomeone to restore.
It was my mils mums oven.
One sibling has gone through the whole house & listed everything she wants & they all seem to be the old antique jtems.
Anyone in Melbourne know if anyone I can get in to value items.
Thanks
H :)
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Oh Hally - how I feel for you! I do hope all this settles down for you sooner than later. Sorry I can't help for recommendations for valuations etc. but I'm sure there'll be someone in Melbourne who can suggest some for you.
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Thx GF, yes its a .......... Job & then to top it all we were asked how much of their inheritance were we being paid ???
DH SAID A BIG FAT O
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Hally, you could try Wignells on Johnston Street in Abbotsford. I am not familiar with the Kookaburra ovens, but Wignells do Rayburns, etc. so if there is a similarity they may be able to help you.
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Hally, really feeling for you. When my aunt died everything that had not been included in the will had to be valued for probate. Then once the valuation was done, anything that relatives wanted could be bought at that valuation and the money went into the estate. The items left were put up for auction so that if two family members wanted the same thing and could not sort it out amicably they had to buy it at the auction and the highest bidder won. Different states could have different laws. Hope things get sorted soon for you.
Marie
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It is up to the executors to manage the disposal of goods and chattels surely. Be methodical and do not let emotions or angst take over. There is no hurry. I have been in this position and it is best left with the executors and I am just saying that no consideration should be given to any but direct descendants and their issue. Do not sweat the small stuff. It is just stuff. The law provides for this and the only one who wins is the lawyer over the protracted disputes involving stuff worth a few hundred dollars.
Just saying.
Gert
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.. And said very well.. ! Hally, Gert is absolutely right.. don't be drawn into the hassle
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This one is worth about $200. (http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/29/zatevu5e.jpg)
Would ya fight over it?
Gert
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Thanks everyone :)
Absolutely not Gert, i just want it out so we can sell the house.
We are the executors, well dh is. So I am now his executive officer >:(
1 sister is looking at thousands everyone else from $200 -$3,000.
In fact its brothers who only want simple things.
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Anyone know anything about
Crown Castle Cuttlery?
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Hally, Your DH is entitled a percentage of the estate as executor . What your SIL takes should be valued and this should come out of her inheritance. The same for anything else that is selected. You will need legal help.
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If I were the executor I would, in the dark of night, load up the crap, take it to the tip and call the real estate agent. Or just let it sit there until they all they all stopped the nonsense . I hate that stuff. Such a waste ot time and effort and such a disrespect to the loved one. Life is too short to fight over the minutia of other's lives and to what end? I would be saddened if my kids fought over my pots and pans . I hope to die with nothing if value left except my ashes which my son wants to scatter in the Ganges. So be it.
Yeah ok I might just leave my Thermomix to my granddaughters and I know they will share.
Gert
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Chookie, there was no provision in the will for dh to get any extra, just his costs.
We are engaging a lawyer next week.
Gert, LOL, yes very,sad.
I have requested some t-towels, tupperware & dh wants very little.
The 1 sister wants all,the china, silverware etc
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A friend of mine long ago had a saying, "what's yours (read there.. What is meant to be yours) will come to you".. No need to get hot and bothered and make a for grab everything ... As Gert says.. It's just stuff.
An aunt had the wisdom to appoint two executors.. one of which was her solicitor.. saved a heck of a lot of unpleasantness from others who seemed to have a very strong sense of entitlement even though the will said otherwise ..
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Chookie, there was no provision in the will for dh to get any extra, just his costs.
We are engaging a lawyer next week.
Gert, LOL, yes very,sad.
I have requested some t-towels, tupperware & dh wants very little.
The 1 sister wants all,the china, silverware etc
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Just being executor entitles your DH to a percentage of the estate Hally.
If the sisters really want the stuff and the others are happy for them to have it then let them take it. It will save you a lot of stress.
I hope to get rid of everything I don't use, give it away to whoever wants it so I don't leave our children with a big mess to sort out and there will be nothing to fight over.
I've already given many pieces of jewellery to my daughter and step daughters.
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Well done Mich.
Maybe the solicitor can tell us about a percentage for being executor.
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When Mum died we just put it all in the hands of the solicitor. They didn't charge very much at all and it was a fairly big job.
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Over here everything has to be valued for probate. A sale rooms usually can value items.
Executors over here can claim expenses but not %.
How sad and good luck.
We chose our things in turn, like drawing lots, now I know where we're finally ending up I might have chosen differently by c'est la vie!!! It's fun seeing pieces of home in all the other houses and down to the next generation too.
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Just a note on getting a solicitor..If there is any money eg. bank accounts, investements etc, make sure that it does not stay in the solicitors trust acct. for too long. My mothers estate was sometime getting settled due to a family dispute after it was all settled the executor worked out there should have been some seventhousand dollars in interest earned for the estate. The solicitor didn't bother to inform her of the nature of the solicitors trust fund It is not an interest bearing acct. As executor she could have opened an acct. and earned all that interest for the estate. No one was destitute because of this but it would have been helpful if the solicitor had informed the executor. Just one of the many, many problems we had with him.
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Thank you Lucyluu, a very good tip :)
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My Nan had an oven like that. I sort of remember it. She went to heaven in about 1951/2.
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Mum had a stove just like that, house built in 1939.