u/Alternative-Shine597

I was on realestate.com.au and came across a house and land package that had only been added less than '20 hours ago'.

I called them up next day and they say that property was actually sold long ago but asked if they could grab my details and they'll check (They were AFK).

At the same time he recommended that I check out another property they had online. He messages me later confirming the property i was enquiring for had sold already. He then also reminded me of the completely irrelevant property I was not interested in.

I felt like I was roped in on the good value property, to then switch sell me another property they had in their inventory that probably wasn't getting many bites?

TL:DR felt bait and switched from great value property that was never actually on the market, for a property they are struggling to sell/get my data.

We are currently at 25% of take home income so we live quite comfortably but are looking to upgrade our home - this potentially pushes us into the 35-40% range which scares us somewhat - but that's mostly because we have been pretty conservative up until this point.