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  Home Defects
Little Elm - Drees Homes
Eldorado West Residents Picket
  Drees Homes
Drees Homes defective construction and foundation
Tremont & Juliet Homes
State Cancels Registration of Juliet Homes. Juliet continues to do business! Secretary of State records confirm Juliet and Tremont Homes are linked to 26 other companies. Tremont has a history of new homes with construction defects that caused mold
  Visiting the Lawmakers
Lawmaker hear from unhappy homeowners in Texas.
Photos of home defects
Do the defects in your home look like these? Send us your photos
  Houston Protest
Protest with Class and Lemons. Support a Home Lemon Law - Mary Cohn
Defective Materials
What does the lumber in your home look like?
  New Construction Mold
This is a photo study of mold under construction and the materials that predispose to the growth of mold.
Defective Brick
“Driftwood” manufactured by Hanson Brick.
  Pampered Foundations
Will today's foundation last?
Foundation Mistakes
Common and careless errors that can have grave consequences for a home’s foundation.
  David Weekly Defects
New David Weekley Built Home Torn Down due to Mold
Lennar Homes
  Bad Stucco

BadStucco.com is dedicated to highlight the problems within the building trades concerning stucco, http://www.badstucco.com/

Capitol Statement

Visiting Lawmaker to call Home Lemon Law to protect homebuyers

  A New Pulte Home

Pulte Home: Tour a 5 month old Defective House. See homeowner website: "My Pulte Experience. http://www.geocities.com/myllamas/CCFL/pulte.htm

Visiting Lawmakers 2007

Consumer Groups announces coalition

  Ryland Homes Construction Defects

Ryland Homes

Poorly Built by Pulte Homes

Pulte Construction Defects -  Nearly two out of every three homeowners (66 percent) indicated that they have sought repairs under Pulte’s limited warranty.<

  HUD's $22M Mess

Mirasol is a $22M HUD program that gave false promises of homeownership.  Pleged with shoddy construction and mismanagement by the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA), <

Ryland Florida Horrors

Water, Water, Water...
More on Ryland Homes Careless Development.  Where is the drainage?

  Ryland Texas Horrors - Drainage? What Drainage

Ryland features: Niagara Falls of Texas

Mirasol: The Forgotten Family

Patricia Cabrera and her children have been displaced from her San Antonio Housing Authority Mirasol Home for two years due to construction defects and mold.

  Armadillo Homes Protest

Armadill Homes Bad Builders - Capitol visit 2009

Centex - Rivermist walls came tumbling down
Centex - Rivermist walls came tumbling down
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Reckless Endangerment
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Outsized Ambition, Greed and
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