Coder's Domain

Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) has some seriously weird errors. If you enable anonymous access within IIS on the top level SPS site, you will receive the following error:

"You cannot view this area, either because the area no longer exists, or because you do not have the rights to view this area. To change your rights, contact the site administrator."

Neither of these are true. The "area" still exists and since I was logging in using an administrative account, how do I not have access to the top level site? The thing was I did not notice it because my browser was caching the page and it wasn't until I ran an stsadm.exe command and had to run iisreset.exe that I noticed the problem. It wasted over 1½ hours of my day figuring out why the SPS top level site was not working.

In order to fix this problem, just remove anonymous access on the SPS virtual server from IIS and perform an iisreset.

Ahhh ... the idiosyncrasies of Sharepoint.

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On a brighter note, I got to go to a first time homebuyers seminar today. The bank had a real estate lawyer and an agent host the meeting. It was quite informative and I learned a whole bunch of stuff.

Here are some of the tidbits that I learned:

Did you know that a builder is allowed to delay your closing date by 120 days no questions asked? After the 120 days, you have a 10 day window to submit a written request for a full refund from the builder. Once you exceed the 10 day window, the builder has the legal right to extend your closing date by another 120 days. At the end of the 240 days and your building is still not ready? At this point in time, you can request for a full refund.

Did you know that if you sign something called a Buyer-Agent agreement, you are bound to the agreement until it expires. This buyer-agent agreement basically says that if you purchase a property in (X) area , you will purchase it through the realtor that is indicated by this agreement for (Y) months. You will not be able to purchase anything from another realtor, if you decide to leave the agent outlined in the agreement. So beware when signing one of these ... It should be noted that you have to sign one before submitting an offer though.

Once you have an settled on purchasing new property and you get an offer from a builder, you should bring it to a lawyer for an offer review. If your lawyer, Jack Schitt, charges you for this review, please note that you are getting ripped off and your lawyer's legal knowledge is probably very reminiscent of his name. An offer review should be free of charge and you have no obligation to the lawyer or law firm which they represent.