I get a little annoyed when agents leave their sold signs up outside our apartment complex for an extended period of time. Easily more than a month on the last one.
But now they have erected this sign – not even for sale or sold. Just a straight up advert.
Isn’t there a law against just erecting adverts wherever you feel like it?
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It’s probably not permitted, give you local council a ring and ask if it is approved
Probably not. But they will do it anyway. Eventually they will get a letter of warning from the authorities suggesting that, all things considered, it may not quite be legal. They will ignore these for a year or so, then graciously agree to remove them. All intentional.*
*I may be totally wrong – but they are real estate agents after all.
That’s a nice sign, it’d be a shame if it disappeared in the middle of the night…
Kick it down and place it in the nearest trash bin. That’s what I’ve been doing with every RE sign I see in my estate
No, they are not.
It will change a little vetween local gov areas, but generally speaking it is max 2 signs per property, one per street frontage.
And the signs must be on the boundary. Sometimes real estate agents put a sign up at the main intersection, that’s not allowed either.
Signing laws can be very strict so probably not.
Did someone sell their apartment without advertising?
Just an observation, most Real estate companies use an external board company to erect the sale/lease boards and the company will not erect boards on council land without permission and permits.
I mean if it had a giant dick on it, I imagine it would be removed quickly
Dunno, but make your own QR codes pointing to alternative webites and stick them over the top of the ones they are so fond of using on these signs nowadays.
Be inventive…
Why are you blurring publicly accessible signs?
They foist this crap on the general public, and you’re trying to….. What? Protect their privacy?
I don’t like this, I don’t like it at all, and I’m not going to eat it.
Real estate agents are the rock stars of Australia now. They can do whatever they want.
Snap send solve. Alert the council to this.
Free corflute and stakes right there left on the roadside
Real estate agents are literally vultures
If there’s a power cable behind it, those are light boxes and the companies who make then do have GPS trackers embedded. Just a FYI, PSA for anyone planning nefarious things…
Speak to your strata – REA’s need to obtain permission to put a sign up, and you can request that it be removed as soon as the property has sold. There’s no justifiable reason for it to be left up, but they’ll take the free advertisement.
Call them up and tell them to remove it by x date, or it will be removed and invoiced to them at their expense.
Did this after a couple of weeks of being robbed off, the sign was removed by the end of the day.
I don’t know what pisses me off more, random adverts or ones with just the REA’s massive smug head and nothing else.
No . Do the right thing Burn it down.
You can get council approval for public spaces and private owners approval for other spaces. Worked for an NFP and a realestate agency at different times and had to do these forms so many times. The NFP was whenever an agency agrees to pay for a board to advertise campaigns but the agency would get us to do all the grunt work in terms of council approval.
I reckon you could get a can of hot-pink spray paint, a craft knife, and a bit of cardboard for >$20… Use the knife to cut the word ***CUNTS*** into the cardboard, then stencil that onto their sign.
They’ll move it pretty quickly after that.
If it’s outside an apartment complex, is it possible they paid the owner to let them put it up?