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ABC Special Report
Investigation: New Home Heartbreak
Trump - NAHB Homebuilders Shoddy Construction and Forced Arbitration

Contact Congress: Arbitration Fairness Now!
SEN. FEINGOLD, REP. JOHNSON INTRODUCE MEASURE TO PRESERVE CONSUMER JUSTICE (See photos)
News Reports: Senate Passes Franken Binding Arbitration Amendment  
   Public Citizen Report - Home Court Advantage
Become involved - Sign Petition: Fair Arbitration Now.com plus, Arbitration Resources & Latest News

 

Outrageous! Buy a New Home - Don’t Sue and Shut Up
Homebuilders will stop at nothing – Now Buyers must agree not to Speak

Beware of New Builder Clause – Homebuilder requires that homebuyer sign clauses forcing buyers to give up their constitutional rights.  It’s a decision between constitutional rights and the American Dream. 

SEE: KB Warranty Conditions - Sign A Shut Up Agreement or No Repairs
PLUS: It's Your Choice, Homebuilder Contracts - Hold Harmless

IS YOUR STATE NEXT?
As Goes Texas So Goes the Nation 
TEXAS REGULATES HOMEBUYERS!
NEW HOMEBUYER LEGISLATION MAY BE COMING TO YOUR STATE SOON
!
How Texas Home Building Industry shaped the Texas Residential Construction
Commission (TRCC) and regulates new homebuyers

Homeowners call for Texas Residential Construction Commission Hearing
Sunday, 03 September 2006

Please help call for a State Affairs Interim Hearing on the Texas Residential Construction Commission
If you are appalled at what is happening in Texas please take the time to participate.  If the building industry’s TRCC is successful in Texas it will spread to every state in the nation.   See: Is Your State Next?

Sample letters:  To Chairman of the Texas Committee on State Affairs
Committee Members requesting a public hearing.

E-mail addresses:
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Only with your participation can we be effective.
Janet Ahmad, President

 

 Texas, First Home Lemon Law Debated in the Nation
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Reckless Endangerment
BY: GRETCHEN MORGENSON
and JOSHUA ROSNER

Outsized Ambition, Greed and
Corruption Led to
Economic Armageddon


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Rise and Fall of Predatory Lending and Housing

NY Times: Building Flawed American Dreams 
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HUD Scandals

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Reckless Endangerman
by
Gretchen Morgenson : How 'Reckless' Greed Contributed
to Financial Crisis - Fannie Mae

NPR Special Report
Part I Listen Now
Perry Home - No Warranty 
Part II Listen Now
Texas Favors Builders

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The housing bubble, in four chapters
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Homebuilders helped fuel the housing crisis
Housing: That Sinking Feeling

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IS YOUR STATE NEXT?
As Goes Texas So Goes the Nation
Knowledge and Financial Responsibility are still Optional for Texas Home Builders

OUTSTANDING FOX4 REPORT
TRCC from Bad to Worse
Case of the Crooked House

TRCC AN ARRESTING EXPERIENCE
The Pat and Bob Egert Building & TRCC Experience 

Build it right the first time
An interview with Janet Ahmad

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Are you Next?
People Magazine - Jordan Fogal fights back
Because of construction defects Jordan’s Tremont Home is uninhabitable
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You could be the next victim
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Warranty?  What 25-Year-Warranty?
Warranty Scams that fool the public 25 years, 50, 100 or even a “Lifetime Warranty,” what’s the difference?

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