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Organizing your community to bring public attention to builder’s bad deeds and seeking assistance from local, state and federal elected officials has proven to be more effective and much quicker for thousands of families. You do have choices and alternatives. Janet Ahmad |
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Texas Rep. Tells City of San Antonio to Get Tough with Developers |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Texas Representative David Leibowitz Calls on San Antonio City Members for Transparency and to Stop Issuing Permits
Rep. Leibowitz paid an official visit to City Leaders telling them… It is a slap in the face to the resident who are displaced to see new homes being constructed in the very neighborhood from which they are displaced. Stop the building and the issuing of permits until this matter is thoroughly investigated...As elected officials, we have to establish, and enforce, regulations to the extent necessary to protect the citizenry. Unfortunately, the city has not been as strict historically, with the regulation of developers as many
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residents would like...This incident, and the indecision which has followed, will irreparably damage their ability to sell their homes.
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Texas Politics: Rivermist and Binding Arbitration Serious Subjects at Texas Capitol |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Homeowners: Too late to start over
Homeowners from San Antonio's Northwest Side neighborhood that underwent a landslide had a few minutes apiece before a House committee today. The committee is considering the issue of consumers being required to agree that they'll take any claims to arbitration in deals such as home-purchase contracts. Janet Ahmad of HomeOwners for Better Building said the San Antonio homeowners' contracts had such clauses for all disputes. Cervantes said he used Centex's in-house mortgage and title services when he bought his home. Now, he said he must go to an arbitrator with his concerns and "I'm going to be at their mercy."Cervantes said it's too late for him, but he'd like to see the law changed to protect his children and grandchildren. |
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Texas Rep. Leibowitz Asks City to Get Tough |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
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State Representative says City should toughen up on developers
State Representative David Leibowitz, D-District 117, is going to bat for dozens of homeowners living in limbo in the Northwest side subdivision. He is asking the Council take action to protect the family’s living near a cracked retaining wall. “Stop the building and the issuing of permits until this matter is thoroughly investigated,” Leibowitz suggested to the Council. The Representative told Council members the saga in the subdivision could have been avoided had the City fully investigated concerns he and others raised three years ago about the quality of fill material used to develop the area. Leibowitz is also suggesting the city toughen up on the developers. |
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Homeowners selling out to Pulte-Centex |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
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Rivermist buyback offers are being taken
Two homes have been sold back to the builder and developer of Rivermist and The Hills of Rivermist, while 11 more property owners either have verbally agreed to sell their homes to the company or are in the process of signing paperwork, Centex spokeswoman Valerie Dolenga said Thursday...The ground shifted and a large retaining wall collapsed on a steep slope in the neighborhood Jan. 24. Since then, many of the homeowners have been living in hotels, apartments and rental homes with limited access to their property. |
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Dave's Landslide Blog, United Kingdom on San Antonio, Texas Pulte-Centex Landslide |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
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The Rivermist subdivision in San Antonio, Texas is on the move again - and it is a rotational retaining wall failure
David Petley, Wilson Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University.The woes of the families displaced by the slope failure at the Rivermist Subdivision in San Antonio, Texas have been exacerbated by a new phase of movement. |
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Wall Street Journal - Pulte-Centex Under Preasure Agree to Buy Back Homes |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Pulte Offers To Buy Back Damaged Homes in Texas
The builder has not addressed other residents’ complaints of reduced property values, leaving some angry. “We’ve worked all our lives for nothing,” resident Dell Hammett told the San Antonio Express-News. “It makes us sick.” But since the collapse, six homes have sold at prices similar to before the slope’s failure, Ms. Dolenga said, a sign the community is holding value. In late January, about 90 houses were evacuated following a “significant soil movement” underneath some of the homes. |
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Austin-Stateman: Pulte-Centex to buy back Texas Homes |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Builder offers to buy homes in Texas landslide
The builder of a San Antonio development partially evacuated after a landslide in January has offered to buy back 27 homes. Spokeswoman Valerie Dolenga said Wednesday that Dallas-based Centex Homes is offering to buy back the homes because homeowners will likely need to remain evacuated for six more months. The homeowners had to leave Jan. 24 when a landslide began and a retaining wall split. Centex, which is owned by Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Pulte Homes Inc., said once it has approval from city officials, it will build a new $5 million retaining wall to prevent future landslides. Construction will take six months. |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN
See the latest on the Rivermist Community See Photos |
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Rivermist Residents Rallied Wednesday |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Centex Agrees to Buy Back Rivermist Homes
They are buying back homes, but some Rivermist residents are still not happy. Since a retaining wall collapsed in January, homeowners have been uprooted and some still are not back in their home. As Rivermist residents rallied Wednesday in front of their homes, the builder Pulte homes offered buy backs to the 27 homeowners still displaced. Pulte homes says they will rebuild the entire retaining wall that collapsed. They are also promising to inspect all similar walls city-wide that are more than four feet tall and built within the last three years. FOX 29 Grace White Reporting |
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KSAT 12: Rivermist Community Comes Together |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Pulte To Buy Back 27 Rivermist Homes
The families who live in those homes have been under an evacuation order since the slope failed, causing structural damage to several homes, putting several others at risk. Wednesday evening, residents in the subdivision gathered in front of the damaged homes, and called on Pulte to do right by the remaining homeowners, some of whom say they have already seen serious structural damage to their homes, which they believe was caused by the slope failure. "Our issue is that Pulte doesn't want to talk to us," said John Schneider, who owns a home across from where the slope failed. "The only communication we've had from Pulte is through their attorneys. What we're looking is for for them to talk to us about taking care of us." |
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River Mist Homeowners Protest |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Builder offers to buy back homes after landslide
The builder of a San Antonio development partially evacuated after a landslide in January has offered to buy back 27 homes. Spokeswoman Valerie Dolenga said Wednesday that Dallas-based Centex Homes is offering to buy back the homes because homeowners will likely need to remain evacuated another six months. The homeowners had to leave Jan. 24 when a landslide began and a retaining wall split. WOAI 4 News Report |
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KENS 5 Report: Resident Rally to get Homes Bought Back |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Hills of Rivermist residents rally, demand buybacks
It's been weeks since a massive retaining wall failure left an entire subdivision questioning the safety of their homes. Now, dozens from the Hills of Rivermist subdivision are demanding action by Pulte-Centex homes. They say they are frustrated with the lack of progress. Stacia Willson has the full story. KENS 5: Stacia Willson Reports |
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Rivermist Community Rallys for Buy Backs |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Buyback offers for 27 homes at Rivermist
Centex Homes will offer to buy back 27 homes in a Northwest Side neighborhood and plans to spend $4 million to $5 million to rebuild a massive retaining wall that collapsed Jan. 24. Carlos Pena, who bought a house a few months ago at the top of the slope, stood at his back door and pointed to where the earth fell away from his house. The area where his back porch once stood now drops straight down at least 10 feet and his entire backyard sank.He has received a buyback offer but said it doesn't address the stress his family has experienced. “It's not enough,” Pena said.
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Closed Door meeting by City and Builder Over More Shifting of Hillside |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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Soil still shifing along the Hills of Rivermist
Pulte-Centex homes says the soil is still moving in the Hills of Rivermist. New reports of cracks in walls had the homebuilder back on the site with engineers, doing soil testing. The company confirms it hasn't stopped the ground from shifting along some portions of the failed retaining wall.
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Express News, Mark Eberwine weighs in on the 'Mud Lake of Rivermist' |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
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Little Rivermists are everywhere in San Antonio
What is going on over at the Hills of River Mist is just 'the tip of the iceberg' in San Antonio. The 'Mud Lake of Rivermist' would have been a more appropriate name. All over San Antonio and the surrounding areas just outside anybody's oversight, subdivision after subdivision have been built where thousands of homes have had foundations constructed on improperly prepared lots. |
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More Cracks in Pulte-Centex River |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Rivermist residents urge city council to hold homebuilder accountable
Residents of the northwest neighborhood of Rivermist are again asking city leaders for help. They want the city to encourage their homebuilder, Centex/Pulte, to buy back their homes. They say the wall collapse problem is getting worse. Neighbors say the retaining wall that collapsed in late January is breaking down even more, just down the street. Chuck Cervantes, who lives across the street from homes that have been evacuated because of the collapse and ongoing safety concerns, says Centex/Pulte has hired a company to test soil samples from under the Rivermist homes. Cervantes thinks that soil was never equipped to support a construction project of this size. |
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