Dealing with real estate agents. A place we are looking at buying has an illegal garage on it, we've discovered. The agent tried to mislead me on many occassions about the legality of the garage, which makes me think he was privy to it all along and was trying to pull one over on us. As soon as we got council involved to confirm our suspicions, he got nasty. When he tried to convince my lawyer there was no problem, he ended up hanging up on my lawyer when confronted with the facts.
So now we are just waiting to see if the vendor is going to be too stubborn to let the sale continue now that they've been caught out.