The more life experiences I gained, the more I learn about myself and of other people.

And the more I realised significance (the feeling of importance) plays a huge part in our decision making.

About a year ago, the shopping centre, where my business is situated, was sued by one of our previous corporate managers.

The corporate manager we had then (now ex) kept telling us that the law suit had no merits we would win for sure.

So we appointed the lawyers he recommended and left it to his control.

And every time we spoke to him, he kept telling us we had nothing to worry about.

But ten months later, we got a surprise letter from him requesting that all of us should meet to discuss a settlement offer stemming from this law suit.

As you can imagined, we were all horrified, not to mention angry about this.

We had all believed this law suit had no merits, then all of a sudden, we had to consider a settlement offer!!

Any way, at the meeting, we heard for the first time that our case was weak and that we should accept the settlement offer - which was around 90% of his claim!!!!!

This was our lawyer's recommendation!!!!

As it turned out, we discovered that our current body corporate manager (now ex) was too pigheaded and arrogant to realise we had no case.

Instead of admitting he was wrong in his initial assessment, thus LOSE FACE, he kept telling us we would win - despite the advice from our lawyers!!!

Now, all of us in the shopping center have to pay.

WHAT A BLOODY IDIOT!!!!!!!!

I guess the old saying "get a second opinion" is true. Especially when it comes to medical and legal matters.

Sorry about your troubles.

This is how lawyers make their money. If everyone was a bit more reasonable, friendly & cautious in life, we'd be out of business

hope everything will turn out ok for you soon .

Loburt: thanks.

Mazzy: lol...lawyers will always have work....just too many pigheaded people around.

Frogster: thanks....it is almost over now.....has not been a good year so far....can only get better I hope.