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When Erika offered $700k for a home, she didn't know it was 'better suited to demolition' (www.abc.net.au)
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Privatised building inspections are a fucking disgrace. I didn't even realise there were no licencing requirements. I thought they had to be engineers at the very least.

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[–] Thagthebarbarian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't know what it's like in Australia, I'm in the USA and just bought a house nowhere near as expensive as hers. I did my due diligence about the entire process, I knew what it takes to be an inspector, I knew not to trust a seller's inspection. I spent 5 months looking at houses, passing on houses over and over. I found my own inspector that I trusted.

I appreciate that this girl is spreading awareness, articles like this are how this kind of knowledge gets out there, but there's no excuse for spending almost 1 million dollars without doing at least a basic Google search for "what should I do before buying a house"

[–] Misty@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

But she didn’t buy it. I’m guessing you didn’t read the article.

She felt uneasy about the “pre sale inspection” so got her own which found all those problems and then pulled out of the sale.

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