Somersoft Property Investor Forum

We hope that you will enjoy the information and services available in the Somersoft Property Investor Forum and in turn help to make it an even more valuable resource for other property investors. Registration is free but for the enjoyment and protection of all Forum members, we do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below.  Access to the site is a privilege, not a right, and your continued access is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the rules and policies, so read them carefully.

Somersoft Property Investor Forum is largely a self-policing discussion site with a focus on property investment.  Our honorary site administrators and moderators can and will take appropriate action (at their sole discretion) with respect to violation of our terms of use, including but not limited to the removal of post(s) and the termination of membership.  In all likelihood, if you're honest, sincere and civil with your posts, you will never have to worry about the Forum administrators or moderators.  In fact, they are really great people who perform an invaluable service in maintaining some sense of order in the Forum for the benefit of all members.

While the administrators and moderators will do their best to keep objectionable material off this forum, it is impossible for them to review every message before they are posted.  Hence all messages express the view of the author and neither the owners of the site (Somerset Financial Services Pty Ltd t/a Somersoft), the developers of the forum software (Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd), the forum administrators, nor the forum moderators will be held responsible for the content, accuracy or reliability of any message, and make no warranties, express or implied, as to the content of messages or any other materials in the Forum.

By registering, you are agreeing to be bound by all the terms and conditions outlined below.  If you find any of these rules unacceptable, or any future changes to these rules unacceptable, your only remedy is to cease using the Forum.

You subject yourself to possible suspension and/or termination from the Forum if you do any of the following:

• Provide untrue or incorrect information about yourself during the Forum registration.

• Use the Forum for the publication of any material that is unlawful, harassing, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, improper or otherwise objectionable. Instead, be civil in your posts and be respectful of others views, irrespective of how stupid you might consider them to be.
• Use the Forum in any way that may infringe the intellectual property rights, copyrights or other rights of another. For example, you may not copy and paste a press release into a post on the Forum without the explicit permission of the copyright owner.  Instead, refer to the article with a URL reference and/or quote a brief extract, giving due credit to the author and the source.
• Use the Forum for the publication of spam, explicit commercial advertising, or of material intended to solicit a person to buy or sell services, to invest in a specific enterprise, or to make donations. However, there may not always be a clear line between sharing information on investment opportunities and using the forum as a place to simply market products and services.  If you think that your post might be interpreted as spam, don’t post it.  Furthermore, self-promotion should be by way of deeds not ads. Members should make their own assessment of what industry professionals have to offer based on the utility of their contributions to the forum, not the size of their signatures. Blatant soliciting for investment funds or investment partners through the forum will not be tolerated.

If you notice other members violating the Terms of Use, you are welcome to notify Somersoft or any of the Forum administrators or moderators through the Forum’s personal message service.

Upon posting messages to the Forum, you must agree to that material becoming the property of Somersoft (a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, non-revocable license under your copyrights or other intellectual property rights) to ensure that the material will continue to be displayed on the Forum. You must also agree to Somersoft authorising the downloading and printing of such material by end users for their personal use.  As this is a public Forum with respect to read access, messages posted to it should be considered publications in the public arena.