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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on the usa consumer law. In the case, Casey (Buyer) after a long search for the house of her choice, gets a housing advertisement that described the ho

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on the usa consumer law. In the case, Casey (Buyer) after a long search for the house of her choice, gets a housing advertisement that described the house as perfect, in excellent condition and that it had just been painted. Its price was more favorable and upon spending an hour with seller looking on the property and although they didn’t talk a lot owing to the language barrier, she verified the description of the house to be true and on the following day she signed a contract to buy the said house. After a week lapsed following her moving in, a neighbor visited and informed her that the mother to the seller had been brutally murdered in the same house and that her blood-covered all the walls of the house. Casey became so upset and distracted owing to nightmares that lead to her job loss. She wants to move out of the house but her effort to sell it could not even fetch half of what he had spent in its purchase.

Casey obviously feels deceived and treated unfairly by the seller as the latter failed to disclose the happenings that had happened in the house prior to its painting and subsequent sale. However, it is not clear whether the seller is in the real estate business and the fact that his mother was brutally murdered in his house does not out rule this possibility. It is clear that at the time the transaction took place, the buyer intends to purchase the house for her household, family or personal purposes and not for resale. As such we will consider Casey (buyer) to be a consumer. Since this forms a consumer transaction, the buyer can initiate legal claims under deceptive trade practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act or the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act that she was deceived by the seller.

Casey in her legal claim that she was deceived by the seller, can refer to the fact that the advertisement that she relied on was misleading and thus illegal. The advertisement described the house to have just been painted but upon the neighbor visited Caser, he informs her of what had happened in the same house and at this point, we realize that it had been repainted so as to attract a new buyer as opposed to the normal painting. The actual statement in the advertisement concerning the product’s (the house) quality and ingredients (painting) is fake.

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