evnow said:
Let us look at a total different situation. A landlord offering the house for lease - and not offering it for sale. Is that "unethical" ?
People seem to through around the words "stealing", "Unethical" and "illegal" casually.
I think you are comparing apples to oranges here.
To stay in real estate, this would be more like someone selling me a house with the expectation that I will need a new roof a couple years later. In this really weird reality it happens so that the seller of the house is also the ONLY roofer in town.
When it starts to rain into my living room, the seller/roofer now offers me to replace my roof, but what he proposes is to
RENT the new roof to me.
Now the house, that I owned, will be co-owned by the roofer as well.
Of course, in the original contract, this "special" arrangement was never disclosed.
And needless to say, that there would also be no precedent for this kind of behavior.
And yes, that is "unethical", if not borderline "fraud", and certainly would call for a lawsuit.
Edit: This comparison has been made already...funny that everyone thought of the same thing.