Important Links                     

Report Mortgage Fraud:

      National Association of Mortgage Brokers/FBI WWW.NAMB.org

Learn More: Invaluable Sources of Information on Loan Fraud
Mortgage Fraud Blog - Central clearinghouse for information on recent mortgage fraud schemes, indictments and prevention.
 Stop Mortgage Fraud.com  See: A Borrowers's Bill of Rights -The Warning Signs of Abusive Lending - Report Abusive Lending.

Bad Builders - International Real Estate Digest - Consumers Fight Back

Helpful Consumer Organizations Websites:

People Over Profits GRASSROOTS ACTION CENTER - Your Grassroots Network to Protect Civil Justice - Businesses and corporations bury Binding Mandatory Arbitration clauses in contracts for countless products and services including credit cards, new homes, and cars. These clauses force you to surrender your rights to a privatized system known as arbitration. Corporate wrongdoers and fraudulent companies protect themselves from being held accountable by hiding behind BMA clauses inserted in fine print. Write to your Senators and Representative and tell them to cosponsor the legislation.

Public Citizen. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.

Colorado Home Alliance 
HOME Alliance has been working with Rep. Jack Pommer (D-Boulder) to pass new legisliation that will protect new home buyers. This Act will stop the wholesale taking of YOUR legal rights through waiver provisions that are incorporated into new home contracts. These waiver provisions take away the legal rights that you are guaranteed in the Colorado Consumer Protection Act as well as the Construction Defects Reform Act of 2003.

US PIRG - Public Interest Research Group  The state PIRGs created U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) in 1983 to act as watchdog for the public interest in our nation's capital, much as PIRGs have worked to safeguard the public interest in state capitals since 1971.  

NCPIRG - North Carolina Public Interest Research Group - Homeowners’ Bill of Rights  Consumer Group Releases Report Detailing Serious Gaps In Homeowners' Rights. Read more...

TexPIRG - Texas Public Interest Research Group When consumers are cheated, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, TexPIRG speaks up and takes action.

Texas Watch TEXAS WATCH is a bi-partisan advocacy organization taking a stand against wealthy special interest lobbyists 

Campaigns for People
Campaigns for People is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to empowering you -- the voters of Texas -- and reducing the influence of special interests at the Texas Capitol. Campaigns for People (CFP) has led the effort in Texas since 1999 to educate and mobilize the public to support campaign reform. Click for more on CFP's achievements.

Clean Up Texas Politics
Find out who's getting big campaign money and who's giving it in Texas' state elections

National Association of Consumer Advocates - The National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) is a nationwide organization of more than 1000 attorneys who represent and have represented hundreds of thousands of consumers victimized by fraudulent, abusive and predatory business practices.

Americas Watchdog.com - CORPORATE WHISTLEBLOWER CENTER
National Advocacy Group for Consumer Protection and Corporate Fair Play  
Report Corporate Waste, Corruption, Fraud and Abuse! Mortgage Document Inspections For Individual Homeowners or Buyers to help prevent lender over charging. 

 NATIONAL HOME BUYERS COALITION (NHBC)
National Home Buyers Coalition (NHBC) is a nonpartisan membership organization designed to represent the needs of all residential homebuyers. NHBC is committed to offering services and facts that will empower homebuyers in the selection process in choosing quality shelter and ensuring environmental safeguards. NHBC will actively pursue legislation to ensure: habitable housing, homebuilding regulation, environmental safeguards, along with consumer protection and education.

Five Star Home Inspections, Inc
Our goal is a well-informed client.The purchase of a home for many people is the single largest investment they will ever make. The home inspection will let you know the condition of the property before you buy, so your dream home doesn't turn into a nightmare. Five Star Home Inspections, Inc. offers a comprehensive inspection. 

The Miller Law Firm - Construction Defects This site is very imformative and features many outstanding news articles - On Line News Articles See: Costs of home-defect suits add up The Arizona Republic examined more than 200 home-defect cases filed in the past five years against the Valley's top builders. Among the findings...   

Texans for Public Justice Texans for Public Justice is a non-partisan, non-profit policy and research organization which tracks the influence of money in politics. Learn about the fight to protect citizen rights and enforce corporate accountability in Texas.

Consumers for Quality Homes
Corporate builders are using subcontractors, often employing a labor force without the training required to build quality homes. This practice of using a shadow workforce leads to poor workmanship and record number of homeowner complaints...

Citizens Against Sick Housing (C.A.S.H.), Tenn. homeowner group dedicated to holding shoddy builders accountable, approached the county’s Legislative Committee July 10. They asked the county to adopt legislation that would require those seeking building permits to post a bond with the county codes department. No Longer Active

HOMEOWNERS CONSUMER CENTER - Protecting the American Dream
HELPFUL ADVICE FOR ALL U.S. HOMEOWNERS As featured in Money Magazine, Good Housekeeping, CNN/Money, Newsweek, CNN, CBS Market Watch & the Wall Street Journal

Exposig New Home Builders - Exposing New Home Builders.com is actively engaged in "Strengthening the American Dream"© by providing new home buyers with access to homeowner advocacy, rights awareness, industry insights, relevant news feeds, and an in general heads up concerning new homebuilders and their not so new tactics against YOU. Buying a "New Home" isn't what you expect! Buyers beware! Learn here!

New Home Builders News Blog.com - The uniquely original New Home Builders NewsBlog is actively engaged in "Strengthening the American Dream"© by delivering sorely needed truth in today’s home buying market via channeling relevant and timely news articles (to you) that shed light on the tactics and exploits of the new home building industry. Know what you are getting into and with whom you're getting into it with! Please feel free to comment on articles that are significant to you and share your insight and knowledge on topics that matter. At the New Home Builders NewsBlog, YOU are provided a voice. YOU can make a difference! YOU should get involved!

HOME ENGINEERING/DR Horton - This web site has been created to keep Americans informed about construction defects, misrepresentations and predatory lending practices by D R Horton, "America's Builder," and its fully owned subsidiary/affiliates DHI Mortgage and DHI Title.

Americas Watchdog.com - CORPORATE WHISTLEBLOWER CENTER
National Advocacy Group for Consumer Protection and Corporate Fair Play.  Report Corporate Waste, Corruption, Fraud and Abuse! Mortgage Document Inspections For Individual Homeowners or Buyers to help prevent lender over charging. 

Texas Homeowners for HOA Reform, Inc. The homestead of a family, or of a single adult person, shall be, and is hereby protected from forced sale, for the payment of all debts.... Article 16, Section 50 of The Texas Constitution.  HOA Abuse Must Stop. See Fox News Report

Homeowner Association News - American Homeowners Recource Center   Homeowner  Associations a Growing Problem Most Americans work hard, pay their taxes, feed and shelter and care for their families, and follow the laws. They also pay politicians to pass just laws, and they pay judges to deliver justice. However, there are reports of a disturbing trend in America 's courtrooms. Homeowners are reporting that after they are terrorized in their communities by law breaking homeowner association lawyers, they are dragged into courtrooms where judges assist and collude with the lawyers to rob them of their homes or drive them into bankruptcy. Homeowners Battle to Stop Home Foreclosures and fines - See who is behind HOA abuses of power. Associa Management Company is the largest HOA management company in the US and is owned byTexas Senator John Carona. See Fox News Report

Hazards of Hiring Unlicensed Contractors -  Oh My God In Heaven what is going on?   How can we fight this?  Your Attention Please, ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS and ALL CITIZENS, we have to do something NOW! How can we have laws that support a scoundrel taking the money and running, while the taxpaying homeowner might lose his or her home, and end up living on the streets? Congressmen, the Assembly, and other Legislators need to realize that unlicensed contractors are undermining the very fabric of the American dream. Read more on Binding Mandatroy Arbitration

Automobile Lemon Law Guide  Don't Get Stuck Driving a Lemon - All 50 states have a Car Lemon Law. Know the automobile lemon laws for your state.

Canadians for Properly Built Homes  Our Vision: Healthy, safe, durable, energy efficient residential housing for Canadians.

TakeBackYourRights.com “The Legislative Process is a remarkable privilege. This is the first time in the history of Frisco that citizens have attempted to gather the required signatures to revise the Frisco City Charter and I am delighted to have been a part of the process. This is the first step toward protecting new homebuyers and holding homebuilders accountable for their mistakes,” said Dr. Becka.

Austinites Lobbying for Municipal Accountability
Put the Power in the hands of the people; & Expose practices that potentially cause people to lose their homes and/or real property. Our Plan: Share Our Stories; Demand Accountability of our public officials; Call out any Misuse Of Power; & Demand that Common Interests supersede special interests.

Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR) is a national coalition of public interest organizations that support effective insurance industry reforms to control skyrocketing insurance rates, reduced insurance coverage, arbitrary policy cancellations, mismanagment and other insurance industry abuses.

Policy Holders of America. Policyholders of America, or POA, is a take charge organization that helps you empower yourself. We don't whine. We get results. In the process, we make the insurance companies madder than hell. We don't care. We're here to help you, the policyholder, get the coverage you've paid for and deserve.

Builder Hall of Shame
HOBB Board Member A Texas Builder
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Binding Arbitration Infiormation Sites:
Give Back My Rights - www.givemebackmyrights.org
Call Before You Buy - www.callbeforeyoubuy.com

Missouri City Chatter Here is an article from a blog which better explains SLAPP-suits and why/how they are used. More than half of all states in the U.S. have legislation on the books to stop these type of frivilous lawsuits...

LasVagasLmonade.org  Is an organization advocating a New Home Lemon Law  for Navada . Locate your builder and share your experiences with other.

   Texas Tax Protest - Let Your Voice Be Heard!
Texans united together to fight unfair tax practices, and help inform local, county and state government officials on their constituents opinions.

Contractor from Hell.Com - a site dedicated to providing information and resources on the do's and don'ts of home remodeling, dealing with contractors, homeowners rights and more importantly, understanding that it is the homeowners' responsibility to ensure their rights are protected and not violated by unethical contractors.

Lemon Builders.com Are you a victim of CAS Fraud - A Binding Arbitration Website

Exposing New Home Builders  New home buyer information source providing industry insights, consumer advocacy, rights awareness, relevant news feeds, money saving links and an in general heads up concerning new homebuilders and their not so new tactics against YOU. Buying a "New Home" isn't what you expect! Buyers beware! Learn here! http://exposingnewhomebuilders.typepad.com/exopsing_new_home_builder/

Blogs & Gripe Sites:


 Special Report - Top Corporate Hate Web Sites
  KBHomeSucks.Com Brian Zaltzberg's old site is down but his work is not lost.     KBHOMESUCKS.COM  - The #1 KB Homeowners Gripe Site.
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        Click Photo: See the site Brian built

The Internet's Garden & Community - Village Garden Web - http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/build/msg0122380524478.html?12 

Building a Home Forum - http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/build/

WebGripeSites.com http://www.webgripesites.com
http://www.webgripesites.com/gripesites.shtml#real_estate

ScrewedCentral.com http://www.screwedcentral.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000331.html