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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
Sad to see comprehension of the English language is lost as well. Nobody stuck up for the trimmers.
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Questioning if fraud is really a crime is just what I said.
As I understand it, altering something, getting an "expert" to say it's not altered, then selling it as unaltered is fraud.
Whether it will be prosecuted is debatable, lots of worse crimes go unpunished because the cases are too hard to get a conviction on (see the Portland car theft article.)
Or to use your house analogy, and I'd hope the actual lawyers will correct me if I'm wrong..
If you have a house, and rewire it to remove aluminum wiring, yes, that's an improvement. And I don't think you'd have to disclose it. I would also think that if it was done recently by a licensed electrician working with an approved permit, you would want to disclose that.
Of course, if there was a permit or even without one, but the work was done by your acquaintance who says he knows how to wire, but he didn't really replace all the wiring, but just enough to get it past the building inspector who is known to be overworked and as a result doesn't look all that hard... Not disclosing is a problem isn't it?
Maybe not, as long as nothing happens. But if there's a fire and some one gets hurt....
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/11/n...ire-death.html