Freelancer.com is destroying my life
> <i>The builder ended up stealing our down payment and evicted us from the house.</i><p>i'm now in my 30s and many of my family and friends own their own property or own rental property.  having been personally involved in and witness to many, many real estate deals including ones that have gone completely south and/or had extremely tenuous goings, i am wondering how exactly this is possible.<p>the entire system is regulated to prevent this sort of thing from happening unless you just fork over a bunch of cash directly to a seller, in which case - that's your problem.<p>the older i get, the more skeptical i am of these cases in which the protagonist finds himself in financial trouble over and over again.  being a victim is incredibly addicting because nothing is ever your fault.<p>sorry if i come off as an asshole but those are my thoughts on this matter.  he posted it publicly on a blog and it ended up on HN and i'm offering feedback.