A property manager has been reprimanded and fined $1,500 by the State Administrative Tribunal for operating without a current certificate of registration.
Shamela Rima Neilson was working for an Attadale real estate agency when her real estate sales representative registration expired in March 2017, but continued to carry out duties as a property manager in breach of the Real Estate and Business Agents Act.
With Commissioner for Consumer Protection David Hillyard
Consumer Protection is aware that contamination or damage to homes from illegal drug activity is a worry for tenants, owners and property industry professionals.
But how do you identify past production, or smoking, of meth, heroin or cannabis at a property and whether there are potential health risks as a result?
With Commissioner for Consumer Protection Penny Lipscombe
Buying a pet is not like your average purchase. The product, which might be a puppy, dog, kitten, cat, horse or rabbit is likely to become a loved member of your family and with you for its whole life.
Delayed deliveries has resulted in numerous complaints being lodged with Consumer Protection, the WA agency warning consumers to stay clear of a vehicle transport business.
A real estate sales representative has been disqualified by the State Administrative Tribunal from holding a certificate of registration for ten years after he misappropriated two payments totalling $21,000 into his personal bank account.
Matthew Piero Liscia of Dianella was fined $2,000 for two breaches of the relevant real estate industry Codes of Conduct and was also ordered to pay legal costs of $1,000. The ten year ban was backdated to begin from November 2017 when his employment was terminated.
Scammers promoting a fake investment scheme using an image of mining entrepreneur Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest have claimed a Bunbury woman as a victim who is reporting a total loss of $670,000.
The woman found the investment scheme being promoted on Facebook and LinkedIn in March 2019 and said she has since made six payments to bank accounts in Australia and Germany as well as a credit card account.
A Bayswater panel beater who has taken money from customers but failed to complete the work is the target of a public warning by Consumer Protection as well as an appeal for vehicle owners to come forward.
Raymond John Goodall, trading as The Force in Smash Repairs (deregistered), has attracted numerous consumer complaints over many years and currently has dozens of vehicles that have been waiting for repair for a long period of time with Consumer Protection now attempting to locate the owners of all the vehicles.
Removing the requirement to have a licence to be an auctioneer in WA is being proposed following a review of the Auction Sales Act.
However, protections will be boosted with extra conduct standards and power for the Commissioner for Consumer Protection to take action to prevent unfit persons from working in the auction industry which covers the auctioning of all types of goods, including the sale of real estate, motor vehicles, art, antiques, collectables and livestock.
Consumer Protection is offering some reassurances for residents of two WA retirement villages affected by the Settlers group of companies being placed into receivership.
Administrators and receivers have been appointed to the company which operates a total of 463 units at Settlers Lakeside village in Ravenswood near Mandurah and Settlers Ridgewood Rise near Butler, as well as two villages in Queensland and one in New South Wales.
