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You must mean Google.com.au. The way Google is heading these days, a lot of searches are localized by country/state/city/etc. so it's really important to make sure you're tracking your rankings on the right Google domain. That being said, yes it works for .com.au.

Depends what country your in really. Always check your local laws and regulations before taking advice on the internet; the laws for someone may not be the same as yours.

Unless you have a history of success, it will be tough for you to get any investing without a site that has traction.

I think he was trying to say that you should want to help your customers. You should be happy to receive a work order from them because now they are a satisfied tenant that can praise your apartments to their friends who have been trying to get their sink fixed for a month.

My friend is a renter and he has wanted a renters interface like this for years.

Maybe new to to you, but X came out in 2009.

Why would this be a bad practice? This is a GOOD practice. You don't want to add months to the development time before you know if it's going to get traction.

I've had several successful sites, but dozens more failures and I'm glad I didn't waste the time making them all easily scalable; they simply didn't need it.

It sounds like you haven't even talked to investors yet. You don't need a corporation to create a TOS, nor do you need a corporation to accept payments.

Cross those bridges when you get there. I don't see this leverage you keep referring to. They restructure businesses all the time. Having the right incorporation doesn't make your startup/idea/business any better, so why don't you focus on improving those things?

"Higher virality than Facebook at its fastest growth stage." You can't say that and not give us a URL.