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> you have to physically go to the notary and have a person READ OUT all the statutes to you. I guess, you've never bought a house in the Netherlands then, bec
by usrnm 9mo ago
> you have to physically go to the notary and have a person READ OUT all the statutes to you.
I guess, you've never bought a house in the Netherlands then, because it's the same exact process
- hexbin010 9mo agoThat is beyond hilarious lol. Finally found something the UK does better than the Netherlands ;)
- dark-star 9mo agoI never understood why people focus on this "reading aloud" so much. It's not so much about the reading out loud, it's about making sure you understand (so that you cannot later claim "but I didn't know about this, nobody explained it to me properly")
- zdragnar 9mo agoWhat does reading it aloud make a difference to you reading it yourself? You can still claim that they misspoke or had an accent and you misheard or any of a dozen other excuses. The whole point of a contract is you sign your name to the words on the paper, and you are attesting that the words therein are correct and what you agree to.
- apexalpha 9mo agoI am living in my second house I bought and they absolutely did not. They just confirmed I was buying a house for X. They did not read the whole thing.