If it’s for both, that does sounds good. And the casual reader could not be excused for thinking that you got both in the price. Though if you read it several other times, I admit to some creeping ambiguity.

So I did a realestate.com.au search on Altona to check it out.

What do we have here?

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&s=vic&cc=&c=41371259&tm=1155694712&id=103324996&f=0&p=10&t=res&ty=&snf=rbs&ag=&cu=fn-rea&fmt=&header=

A house in Altona with a unit behind it. The asking price is $260k. That description does sound good, even if ‘superb’ is spelt wrongly.

Scroll down and the facts are revealed. The house is $260k but the rear town house is $380k. So it’s not $260k for the lot, but $640k! Again the ad has ambiguity, just like the post quoted.

Look at the sales rep’s name and the user quoted above. Coincidence huh?

The take home lessons are:

1. Read the fine print
2. Beware of forum users with vested interests and stuff to sell
3. Beware of spruikers trying to make a deal sound better than it is by omitting salient facts

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