How real estate agents get away with selling dodgy properties

The colony’s laws have been set up to benefit actions in business/commerce/trade.

The tax system has been (deliberately) geared up to the benefit of corporations, many avoid paying tax altogether for their entire business existence. 

Throughout all this unfairness ‘persons’ who participate in the economy have been classified as ‘consumers’, where consumer law has been introduced to give an illusion of fairness.

Sure, many examples can be brought up in court cases where the corporations ‘lost’ and the consumer allegedly won.

Australia is a protectionist nation, and will go to any lengths to keep this, irrespective of how the ‘consumer’ is harmed, as long as the government isn’t.

One industry that is allowed to continue racketeering is the real estate industry, because the government directly benefits from this.

IF a licenced motor car trader sells an automobile, checks & balances must be made, where the road-worthiness of the vehicle must be proved with the appropriate paperwork.

The onus is then on the (licenced) seller.

No such luck in the the real estate market.

In MANY instances a residential dwelling is presented to a prospective ‘consumer’ and the realtor is fully aware of the dwellings pitfalls, which are deliberately hidden from the purchaser.

Not only this, but the agent is absolved from any responsibility or liability, where a 180 is done and this falls on the purchaser, under a scam called ‘due diligence’.

In Victoria, the ‘due diligence’ checklist falls under the responsibility of the ‘consumer’ as stated in the institution called Consumer Affairs Victoria, at the time of this post, under the address: https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/duediligencechecklist

As we know the more the dwelling sells for the more the government benefits, raking in the dollars, therefore exposing any problems before a sale will lower the sale price of the property, therefore costing the government, therefore there is no benefit for the government to implement any law to protect the ‘consumer’ in this regard.

Another scam ‘supported’ by the colonial government.