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Legislative efforts by Texas REALTORS® resulted in the Texas Legislature in 2011 amending the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act to clarify that real estate professionals fit within the professional-services exception to the DTPA.
To seek relief under the Texas DTPA, you must qualify as a consumer. A consumer may be an individual, partnership, corporation, LLC or even a state agency. The Texas Business and Commerce Code Section 17.46 has a laundry list of 25 prohibited acts that are considered false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices.
The primary purpose of the DTPA is to protect consumers against false, misleading, and deceptive business and insurance practices, unconscionable actions, and breaches of warranty. It does so by prohibiting certain acts and practices that tend to deceive and mislead consumers.
Proving a DTPA Claim Good intent is not a defense under the DTPA. In other words, defendants can be held liable even if they did not intend to misrepresent the product to the consumer.
(1) Passing off goods or services as those of another. It is illegal to advertise or represent goods or services under a different company than the company in which the good or services were made. (2) Causing confusion or misunderstanding as to the source, sponsorship, approval, or certification of goods or services.
That is because the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) in Texas has a two-year ?statute of limitations.? A lawsuit must be started within two years of the fraudulent sale, lease, repair, service, or other offending conduct.
Who does the DTPA protect? To be able to sue under the DTPA, you must be a ?consumer.? A ?consumer? is defined as any individual, partnership, corporation, or governmental entity who seeks to acquire by purchase or lease any goods or services. See the Consumer Law Handbook, a publication of the Houston Bar Association.