[Donna Shalala is co-chair of the presidential group looking into shoddy care and maintenance at Walter Reed medical center]
BRIAN MARTINEZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, SEP 20, 2006 - The owners of 29 houses in the Las Flores area near Rancho Santa Margarita are suing developer Lennar Corp. for $2.9 million, claiming the residences have defects because of faulty design and construction. Among the homeowners is Claudia Airola, who says her back yard won't drain, her upstairs sinks take all day to empty, there are large rust stains on an outside wall, and her home's exterior stucco is cracking in some places. . . Lennar Corp. declined to discuss the lawsuit because the company has not been served with the document but stated that its customer-care division does not have any unresolved cases open from the Bel Flora development, built in 1998-1999 in the Los Flores neighborhood. . .
Last year, the owners of 21 homes in Huntington Beach filed a similar lawsuit against Lennar. The complaints included short garage openings, excessive wallboard cracking and wood trim separations. The case is pending, according to the homeowner's attorney. Real estate consultant Walter Hahn said that construction defect lawsuits were common during the housing boom of the late 1980s but that the claims tapered off after that.
PALM BEACH POST - A national home builder sued a Stuart real estate agent claiming his Internet crusade against the company's homes had trampled on its trademark. But the real estate agent vowed his campaign to expose what he says is shoddy building by the company will not go away. The Miami-based Lennar Corp. filed the lawsuit against Mike Morgan in circuit court in Stuart. The lawsuit alleges that a new Web site Morgan created, www.defectivehomes.info, is causing "infringement, confusion and dilution" of Lennar's trademarked name. Morgan, who runs the Morgan Florida real estate firm, created the Web site to gather complaints from residents who have bought Lennar homes.
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HURRICANE - The long-awaited event took place Thursday afternoon at the Bank United Center with Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, appearing as the Spring 2007 Convocation speaker. In his first appearance at the University of Miami, Clinton discussed a range of global and domestic issues. UM Media Relations reported that the facility was filled at maximum capacity with roughly 7,000 attendees, mostly students. Approximately 6,400 saw Gore the night before. University President Donna E. Shalala invited both Clinton and Gore to speak at back-to-back events Wednesday and Thursday. At a dinner in Mahoney Residential College last Thursday, Shalala said that Stuart Miller, the president and CEO of Lennar Corp., paid all the costs associated with both appearances.
http://prorev.com/2007/03/shalala-on-board-of-builder-sued-for.htm
BRIAN MARTINEZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, SEP 20, 2006 - The owners of 29 houses in the Las Flores area near Rancho Santa Margarita are suing developer Lennar Corp. for $2.9 million, claiming the residences have defects because of faulty design and construction. Among the homeowners is Claudia Airola, who says her back yard won't drain, her upstairs sinks take all day to empty, there are large rust stains on an outside wall, and her home's exterior stucco is cracking in some places. . . Lennar Corp. declined to discuss the lawsuit because the company has not been served with the document but stated that its customer-care division does not have any unresolved cases open from the Bel Flora development, built in 1998-1999 in the Los Flores neighborhood. . .
Last year, the owners of 21 homes in Huntington Beach filed a similar lawsuit against Lennar. The complaints included short garage openings, excessive wallboard cracking and wood trim separations. The case is pending, according to the homeowner's attorney. Real estate consultant Walter Hahn said that construction defect lawsuits were common during the housing boom of the late 1980s but that the claims tapered off after that.
PALM BEACH POST - A national home builder sued a Stuart real estate agent claiming his Internet crusade against the company's homes had trampled on its trademark. But the real estate agent vowed his campaign to expose what he says is shoddy building by the company will not go away. The Miami-based Lennar Corp. filed the lawsuit against Mike Morgan in circuit court in Stuart. The lawsuit alleges that a new Web site Morgan created, www.defectivehomes.info, is causing "infringement, confusion and dilution" of Lennar's trademarked name. Morgan, who runs the Morgan Florida real estate firm, created the Web site to gather complaints from residents who have bought Lennar homes.
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HURRICANE - The long-awaited event took place Thursday afternoon at the Bank United Center with Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, appearing as the Spring 2007 Convocation speaker. In his first appearance at the University of Miami, Clinton discussed a range of global and domestic issues. UM Media Relations reported that the facility was filled at maximum capacity with roughly 7,000 attendees, mostly students. Approximately 6,400 saw Gore the night before. University President Donna E. Shalala invited both Clinton and Gore to speak at back-to-back events Wednesday and Thursday. At a dinner in Mahoney Residential College last Thursday, Shalala said that Stuart Miller, the president and CEO of Lennar Corp., paid all the costs associated with both appearances.
http://prorev.com/2007/03/shalala-on-board-of-builder-sued-for.htm
