I have just spent a very inspiring hour with South African retail legend Raymond Ackerman discussing HouseCheck and its campaign to champion the rights of the consumer/home buyer. Mr Ackerman told me how, many years ago, he had been rescued from making a bad buying decision with his first home in Johannesburg by a bank […]
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. A FIGHTER: National Consumer Commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi. Noni Mokati Some regard her as a “problem child” – an overly litigious woman who uses any opportunity to run to the courts at first provocation by her employer. But national consumer commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi believes she is nothing but a woman and worker hell-bent on fighting
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There is an interesting article in Cape Town’s Weekend Argus Property Section of 26 May 2012. I believe that this debate will continue until there is a test case and the courts rule on sellers’ and agents’ liability under the Consumer Protection Act. Meanwhile hardly a week goes by that an aggrieved buyer does not
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I had a presentation on home inspections this week to a group of estate agents who were very skeptical. These tough agents had previously been exposed to a home inspector from a rival company who had presented the case for home inspections to the local institute of estate agents. Apparently this guy messed it
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A Cape Town estate agent, Bobby Ewing (name has been changed), wrote HouseCheck a letter this week which I think really exposes the deep seated and essentially unjust nature of the South African real estate industry. Bobby is an estate agent who is obviously both sincere and serious about his profession and I don’t for
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