>It sounds like if the industry isn't enforcing itself and operating out in the open, no one really cares.
Thats some very strange reasoning you're operating on there. The fact the industry isn't enforcing itself only suggests that people don't care enough about this to reach the tipping point at which the upset people involved start to negatively affect the business of the perpetrators to the extent that not engaging in the undesirable tactics would no longer be profitable. Most people do care, and do hate it, but renters have to deal with that world for very short and limited periods of time over the course of a year and can't afford to invest the kind of effort needed to affect change in an industry completely unrelated to them.
Its like you're saying no one cares about all the generic spam they get just because the 0.001% conversion rate spammers have make it a sustainable business model.
Thats some very strange reasoning you're operating on there. The fact the industry isn't enforcing itself only suggests that people don't care enough about this to reach the tipping point at which the upset people involved start to negatively affect the business of the perpetrators to the extent that not engaging in the undesirable tactics would no longer be profitable. Most people do care, and do hate it, but renters have to deal with that world for very short and limited periods of time over the course of a year and can't afford to invest the kind of effort needed to affect change in an industry completely unrelated to them.
Its like you're saying no one cares about all the generic spam they get just because the 0.001% conversion rate spammers have make it a sustainable business model.