Home Inspections a mandatory answer for all concerned home owners.
By now it is a well-known fact that our primary residence is most probably the biggest investment that the man in the street will ever make in his/her lifetime. Therefore we tend to maintain it, add on to it and give it a personal touch, to create individuality.
The Consumer Protection Act 2011, however, will affect the way on HOW we conduct business and trade in future. Since the estate agent is a supplier and a residence a product, the CPA will definitely affect the way estate agents conduct their business.
The Act even keeps the current homeowner at task to ensure that maintenance is conducted on items like structure, electricity, plumbing and adherence to municipal regulations like the updating of plans, building on boundaries etc.
We at the Cape Home Inspectorate are currently, the only recognized specialists who can inform you with the latest detail and minimize the risk on your most valuable investment, your home. We are a conclusive Risk Assessment Management Team. We are a group of highly qualified and accredited home inspectors, specialists and engineers with 50 years experience in structural integrity and durability that cater solely for the homeowner and the real estate industry, to give surety to your investment. We are then incorporated and endorsed by two structural engineers firms, architectural firm and legal representation, whom are actively involved with us.
We are your one-stop guarantee team of highly qualified specialists in the following fields:
1. Architectural
2. Electrical
3. Plumbing
4. Structural
5. Beetle/ Bug and Termite
6. Gas, Solar and Swimming Pools
7. Health and Safety Regulations - Asbestos
8. Transgretion - Section 14(4A) of National Building Regulations Act
9. NHBRC
10. Real Estate Protection
11. Home Owners Protection & Assistance
12. CPA Legal Assistance
13. Contractual & Project Management Assistance
14. Building Cost and Planning and arbitration
15. Remedial Advice
The Consumer Protection Act (CPA)
The purpose of this act in basic, is primarily to protect the consumer against exploitation and unfair marketing practices and to empower consumers to make wise, informed decisions.
The act then has the following aims:
- To promote a fair accessible and sustainable marketplace for consumers products and services by setting national norms and standards, relating to consumer protection
- To provide for the improved standards of consumer information
- To prohibit certain unfair marketing and business practices
- To promote responsible consumer behavior
- To harmonize laws relating to consumer protection
- To provide a consistent enforcement framework
The act in essence will regulate each transaction between a supplier and a consumer involving the supply of goods and/or services and regulating promotions of such goods, and the goods and services themselves.
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