HOMES IN CREEKSIDE SUBDIVISION IN FLOOD PLAIN
Home Owner Snake Bitten!

HOME OWNER OF CREEKSIDE SUBDIVISION REPORTS: It appears nearly 200 homeowners of the Creekside Subdivision, located in San Antonio are in the flood plain because Kaufman & Broad failed to complete a required drainage project.  Records indicate Kaufman & Broad did not disclose the problem to the buyers when they sold them the homes. When the Home Owners Association found out about the problem around April, 1999, they chose to utilize the associations’ funds to pay Mark Brown Engineering $25,000 to try and solve the problem.  Mark Brown Engineering is the same firm hired by Kaufman & Broad who performed the original engineering for the subdivision. When one board member was asked why Kaufman & Broad did not pay the engineer, their response was, “Kaufman & Broad refused.” 
FOX TV REPORTED HOME OWNER BITTEN BY SNAKE! Kaufman & Broad agrees to buyback a home in just 3 days! While demonstrating defects in his siding, to a Kaufman & Broad employee, a homeowner was bitten by what is believed to be a “RATTLER” that was nesting with its family behind the siding.  The home owner was treated at the VA Hospital. The buyback negotiation was handled personally by Buddy G  Buddy Goodwin, head of Kaufman & Broad of Texas. 
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KB Homeowners hold Press Conference and visit lawmakers
KB Homeowners from the Austin area stuck with bad homes will gather at the Capitol to visit with lawmakers asking why they have no place to turn for help.  For the past two years hundreds of homeowners sent letters complaining of defective homes and were advised by the Governor’s office, and the Attorney General, to consult legal council and go to TRCC.   In the end, those that went through TRCC were advised to get an attorney and proceed to litigation.  Homeowners say they can't sell their defective KB Homes.

Angry resident paints giant lemons on her condo's windows in protest
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(6/15/05 - HOUSTON) — A homeowner has found an unusual way to speak out against her homebuilder...Heather Michelson headed to court over large yellow lemons painted on the window of her quarter million dollar Montrose condo. It was art -- and a statement. "The only voice I had," she said. "I put lemons up and I moved out." ... "I had bloody noses at night, nauseous, dementia," recalled Michelson. "I was fatigued. I'd sleep for 18 hours a day." The symptoms, she says, disappeared when she moved out... Janet Ahmad with Homeowners for Better Building explained, "Anyone can be a builder in Texas. But only in Texas are the home builders unregulated and the buyer is regulated."