Re: Gordon Bishop’s "Shabby New House for Half a Million Dollars"
By Letters To The Editor Cindy Schnackel (02/14/06)
I agree that the quality of workmanship, and customer service, has gone down. These days a home buyer needs to learn first how to build a house right, so they can spot mistakes, and has to have a team of experts helping them; inspector, engineer, lawyer. If they don't budget for these experts they run a frighteningly high chance of ending up with one of the 15% of new homes that have at least two serious unresolved defects, as reported by Consumer Reports magazine in Jan 2004. That's not counting the relatively minor issues Mr. Bishop described. There’s a term for the way homes are built now: "Disposable housing." Doesn't matter how much you paid for it either...same shortcuts are happening on homes of all price ranges.
Cindy Schnackel
National Secretary, Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings, http://hadd.com/
HADD is entirely volunteer operated, by people who got a shoddily built house and want to do something about the "big picture," not just their own case!
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