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San Antonio to Forth Worth Pulte-Centex Wall Failure
Irizarry Family worries as more rain approaches and the crumbling wall looms with danger. Same story different City, same builder. See latest Irizarry wall photos, plus the San Antonio Rivermist Story
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San Antonio January 2010 - The Great Pulte-Centex Wall
Pulte-Centex and Binding Arbitration Clauses in the News, as New Houses Teeter
on Hillside
Saturday,
January 23, 2010 Rivermist Subdivision: As nightfall approached and families
settled down for the day; some describing their evening as interrupted by a bit
more new home settling noises than usual. Throughout the night homes
creaked, squeaked, moaned and groaned. Little did residents know that
they were literally in for a rude awaking.
Sunday morning, January 24: Phones range throughout the Rivermist Subdivision
and when answered, the conversation went something like; Good morning⦠this is
the San Antonio Police Department, your community is being evacuated; you have
two minutes to leave your home⦠By 5:00 PM their subdivision was the subject of
the national evening news. Two days later the city reported that the
failure was due to improper construction of the retaining walls as well as
improper compaction of fill and that the builder did not obtain building
permits to construct retaining walls. By Wednesday homeowners were in
Austin to tell their shocking experiences at a hearing held by the Texas House
Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Binding Arbitration.
As a result of their life changing experience families quickly learned the
issues were much greater than their own personal suffering. Like most new
homebuyers they never suspected that buying a new home in Texas could be so
dangerous. Most never knew that homebuilders were not licensed or regulated or
they had signed binding arbitration agreements giving up their constitutional
right to sue Pulte-Centex homes.
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