Home Builders bill with Fraudulent Intentions |
Sunday, 12 October 2014 |
HOA homeowners oppose construction defects legislation
âSenator Ulibarri is about to introduce a bill that should be called the âHorrors of Homeownership Act,ââ said Molly Foley-Healy, chair of CLAC. âSenator Ulibarriâs stated goal is to create more affordable housing, but this bill has nothing to do with affordable housing. Instead, it hurts the very people he said he wanted to help. It effectively blocks homeowners from holding builders responsible for their shoddy construction and leaves homeowners living in HOAs to pick up the tab for repairing the defects.â |
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Home Owners for Better Building call on HUD Secretay Julian Csstro To Enforce Federal Codes |
Saturday, 04 October 2014 |
Local homeowners call on Julian Castro to overhaul HUD
The Mirasol homes were built
using HUD money, and homeowners said if builders had followed HUD's federal
building guidelines, the builders would have avoided lawsuits and the wasted,
taxpayer money. |
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Arbitration Impenetrable Roadblock by Business Interest |
Saturday, 18 January 2014 |
When the little guy gets shut out of court
The trend toward mandatory arbitration clauses has been accelerating for years, but attempts to curtail it have run into an impenetrable roadblock from business interests that are understandably eager to stay out of court. Their point might be justified if the arbitration process was fair, transparent and accountable. It is not.
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Forced Binding Arbitration - Builder Get Out Of Jail Free |
Thursday, 09 January 2014 |
Consumer advocates: Fine print could rob consumers of right to sue
Consumer advocates warn that a provision in an increasing number of consumer contracts robs consumers of their basic right to sue. Greg Cole said he was forced into arbitration when his homebuilder, John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, wouldn't fix construction mistakes to his home in a development in East Cobb. Cole said cracks in walls and ceilings caused leaks that created a mold problem that sickened his family. |
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CFPB Monitor - FTC challenging arbitration |
Sunday, 29 December 2013 |
CFPB Monitor - FTC files amicus challenging arbitration
provision
Last year, the DOJ filed an
amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in American
Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant in support of the
merchants who were challenging the class action waiver in American Expressâ
arbitration agreement. (The Supreme Court ruled against the merchants in
a 5-3 decision.)
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Builders Fails to Accept Warranty Responsibility for Construction Defects |
Tuesday, 09 July 2013 |
Canyon Lake dream home fills with mold, not memories
She pays the mortgage and insurance, yet a local womanâs dream retirement home has been vacant for years. Karen Rutledge said dangerous mold lingers in the walls, in a house the builder refused to fix properly. |
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NYTimes Editorial: Binding Arbitration, Court’s favoring powerful corporations |
Sunday, 23 June 2013 |
Another Blow to Class Action
This week, the Supreme Court continued its aggressive effort to favor corporations by forcing customers to raise grievances through individual arbitration rather than a class action or some other joint legal challenge...The decision makes it very hard, if not impossible, to stop bad corporate practices because the potential award for an individual would be too small to justify a suit. |
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Big Business Forced Arbitratiion - 2011 Supreme Court Ruling |
Thursday, 09 May 2013 |
Forced Arbitration: Killing the Right to Sue Big Companies, One TOS Agreement at a Time So-called forced arbitration clauses say that in the event of a dispute, you won't be able to file a class-action suit. Instead, your dispute will be settled one-on-one in a private arbitration forum. These clauses are commonly inserted into terms of service agreements, which you must agree to if you want to use the product or service. For years, this practice was prohibited by law in many states. But in 2011 the Supreme Court ruled in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion that all state laws prohibiting forced arbitration clauses are preempted by the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act. And that opened the floodgates. |
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SEC To End Mandatory Arbitration Clauses |
Tuesday, 16 April 2013 |
SEC's Aguilar Calls for End to Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Such clauses, which are standard in brokerage contracts and often included by registered investment advisers, require any client claim of losses to be settled in binding arbitration instead of the courts. "Investors should not have their option of choosing between arbitration and the traditional judicial process taken away from them at the very beginning of their relationship with their brokers and advisers," Securities and Exchange Commission member Luis Aguilar said in prepared remarks for the North American Securities Administrators Association's annual conference in Washington on Tuesday. "By providing investors with the ability to choose the forum in which to bring their legal claims and protect their legal rights, we enhance investor protection and add more teeth to our federal securities laws." |
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Texas Homebuyer Protection Act, would require builders to buy back houses |
Monday, 08 April 2013 |
Proposed âlemon lawâ for new homes would only cover vets
The measure enjoys support among residents of Schertz and Cibolo, where foundation problems with dozens of relatively new homes â attributed largely to expansive soil â have caused heartaches for homeowners and headaches for municipal officials. Both cities have moved to strengthen their building codes. Cibolo Mayor Jennifer Hartman said her city has a high number of veterans but said the protections in HB 1887 should be expanded to cover all homeowners... She has successfully solicited support for the legislation from Guadalupe and Bexar County commissioners and from the Northeast Economic Partnership, a regional alliance of eight cities that includes Cibolo. |
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EDITORIAL: Express News Supports Home Buyer Relief |
Monday, 08 April 2013 |
EDITORIAL: Home buyers need relief from the state
After a disastrous experience with the Texas Residential Constructio Commission, which ended in the agency being abolished, the Legislature has done little to address consumer and builder concerns that prompted the agency's creation...The agency was so flawed it did more harm than good to homebuyers and was dissolved in 2009... Legislation proposed by Democratic Reps. Joe Farias of San Antonio and Lon Burnam of Fort Worth would offer relief for homebuyers, but it does not protect all consumers...These problems are not unique to any region, and state lawmakers need to address them. Sidestepping the issues is unacceptable. |
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