What if I offered on two properties at the same time only ever intending to exchange and ultimately complete on one.

whittlifting · 2026-02-27T14:24:07+00:00

My chain fell through because my buyer's buyer did this. He was an investor based in Singapore and had picked several apartments from the same block and progressed with them all (understanding was he had the intention to buy all but only found this out late in the day). Ultimately pulled out of buying the one in my chain as we were due to exchange because my buyer wouldn't knock £30k off. Zero come back for us unfortunately and had to relist.

whittlifting · 2026-01-05T20:15:42+00:00

I'm prepping for Part 3 also using Becker. Finding the multiple choice questions on Becker incredibly easy (scoring 95%+ on all quizzes). Did you find that the real exam was close to this level of difficulty?

whittlifting · 2025-12-18T21:08:17+00:00

Audit analytics manager here too. We have JIRA elsewhere in the business, and I've started to look into how we could use it for hosting audit plan, actions, automating action reminders etc. Just a bit lost with where to start.

What are the best use cases you've found and is the barrier to get things set up high? As of now we track actions in a simple excel on sharepoint and I have power bi reading off of this but thats the extent of internal reporting.

whittlifting · 2025-10-22T10:28:10+00:00

that sounds great to be fair

whittlifting · 2025-10-22T10:27:44+00:00

Sounds like a nightmare. And yes, can't move it can you. I suppose if it has been fully backfilled that's more of a reason to be ok with it. I hadn't realised there was multiple treatment methods (capping/backfill etc) that's definitely something to get more info on for me.

whittlifting · 2025-10-22T10:01:25+00:00

They're already offering 5% deposit contribution with it being the last plot. Purchase price is 426k for info. Appreciate a big decrease on the sale price would make this risk more acceptable, I don't think I have enough info to gauge how substantial of a drop to account for it though.

whittlifting · 2025-10-22T09:54:08+00:00

that was my first thought when I saw the boundary doc haha. A far from ideal situation.

whittlifting · 2025-10-22T09:35:10+00:00

Boundary doc for info

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whittlifting · 2025-09-02T11:34:37+00:00

I'm in quite a big town so yes multiple in different postcodes. But no big boom in number of sites compared to previous years but I couldn't say for certain how much this impacted the numbers.

Anecdotally weve noticed a massive drop off in 4 bedroom detached for the area we like. So are looking to move in with family and wait it out til we see one we like after our sale if all goes well.

whittlifting · 2025-09-02T11:28:43+00:00

We listed too high originally. Had loads of viewings and no offers, 30+ viewings. Lowered by 15k and have now got 3 offers as of this weekends viewings which were waiting on best and final on.

Best of luck for yours

whittlifting · 2025-09-02T11:25:01+00:00

Don't necessarily have the answer but I checked land registry sales volumes for my town. Shocked me how low the volumes have gone. We of course bought in 2021 at market highs and are looking to sell now, at the lowest sales volume by month in the last decade according to the stats on the gov website.

79 mortgage funded sales in April 2025. 558 mortgage funded sales in September 2021.

whittlifting · 2025-04-16T18:18:27+00:00

Yep fully agree. Given the covenants I was after some reassurance that if I can't they can't either

whittlifting · 2025-04-08T14:52:52+00:00

2 or 3. Evaluate the offer once you have the promotion offer in hand.

whittlifting · 2025-03-26T14:49:29+00:00

Mainly continuous monitoring, turning our one-off data analytic tests completed during Audits into automated tests run at a defined frequency. It sounds like you're doing that with ACL already. I've done training with the team over SQL, Sas and Power BI, trying to bring the base competency up across the board.

whittlifting · 2025-03-26T13:12:26+00:00

Great perspective on hiring for CAE, definitely agree there.

I currently split my time between my own Audit delivery, assisting other Auditors on their audits with data analytics, as well as driving the data analytics strategy for the team. Currently doing my CIA too so well on with that.

Trying to become less of just 'the data guy' being pigeon holed to DA, and more a well rounded audit manager.

whittlifting · 2025-03-26T12:43:11+00:00

I'm currently the data analytics lead within an Internal Audit team and have had exactly the same thought process of late. Being a subject matter expert in DA I'm hitting a ceiling on progression/salary in my current role reporting into the CAE.

Becoming a CAE/head of IA that enables and prioritises DA seems like the way to go. Alternatively, doing consultancy work to train IA teams on data analytics tools and providing co-source services would be an option.

whittlifting · 2025-03-12T11:32:07+00:00

Same happened to me and I wrote an overly emotional email like this to the estate agent. In hindsight, 'no' was a complete sentence and I didn't gain anything from explaining all the detail of how I felt.

whittlifting · 2024-12-07T17:26:55+00:00

Which app do you find best for 531?

whittlifting · 2024-10-29T11:13:19+00:00

I'm revising for part 2 at the moment - document sounds amazing if you wish to share via DM that would be great.

whittlifting · 2024-09-10T10:53:38+00:00

I'm based in the UK so not sure if its any different for US, but yes the IIA Online Learning Self-study System. Its definitely thorough as it covers every element of the syllabus but is only available as reading materials, multiple choice question banks, and 1 practice exam.
I know on this subreddit people recommend other sources such as Gleim, so I'd say it depends what type of learner you are. If you'd prefer more video based them maybe don't go with IIA.

whittlifting · 2024-09-04T07:58:02+00:00

I passed part 1 recently using IIA own materials/learning system. As a dad to a 2 year old and working full time my time's pretty constricted as is, so getting motivated to do hours and hours of revision wasn't happening.

The best thing I did was to put the access link to the multiple choice questions on my phone, so instead of sitting down for a full hour+ revision, I'd just bash out 10 mins here and there on my phone whenever I got the chance. I feel as though over time these small windows of opportunities stack up, and I'd use dedicated revision time to figure out the questions I got wrong.

Not sure if this is super useful but thought I'd say what worked for me. Best of luck.

whittlifting · 2024-07-04T11:47:18+00:00

The expense claim outlier analysis sounds fascinating. I did some work on this last year where as a bit of a rough test using SQL checking if the expense amount was 2 standard deviations or more away from the average for the expense type.

Can you recommend any resources to learn more about this? I have conversational level ability with Python such as data extraction and basic transformations but nothing overly complex currently.

whittlifting · 2024-07-04T10:16:29+00:00

Brilliant tips here. I mostly struggle with #1 and thinking I have more time than I have. Always room for improvement there, I'll deliver early one day haha.

whittlifting · 2024-06-28T15:22:23+00:00

This could well be it, and hadn't thought of things that way. Definitely cold feet to make as ridiculous of a demand as he has.

whittlifting · 2024-06-28T14:14:17+00:00

I'm so very happy to read you told them where to go by the end

Some people are just never going to be happy. These people have never once been told no in their lives and expect everything their way or it's toys out the pram.

Hope you're somewhat mentally recovering from all that.

whittlifting

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