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- From: Eli.Mantel@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Eli Mantel)
- Subject: Re: PULTE homes
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:30:27 GMT
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- shaddock@muddy.unx.sas.com (Mike Shaddock) writes:
- >Was PULTE cooperative or did you have to pay for the repairs yourself?
-
- My personal experience involved a problem with a house bought from Anderson
- Homes that occurred about two years after purchase.
-
- Anderson refused to even come out and look at what we were complaining about.
-
- Here's what I learned from the experience:
- 1. The various HOW-type programs are worthless, except perhaps
- for problems reported during the first year IF the builder
- has gone bankrupt.
- 2. Get your complaints to the builder in during that first year...
- the only problem with this is that their "repairs" are so shoddy.
- I don't know whether it helps to file a lawsuit during that first
- year, but it is definitely necessary to be assertive.
- 3. Using the home inspection services prior to purchasing a home from
- the builder aren't much help.
-
- Ultimately a settlement was reached with Anderson. At least it covered
- the legal expenses we incurred in suing them. :-)
-
- Eli Mantel (eli.mantel@bbs.oit.unc.edu)
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