Comments on: Calling all honest people

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:13:46 +0000

Kevin, I understand your frustrations. My sister and I bought a townhome in November of 2002. By January of 2003, we were having problems that were indicative of foundation problems. We started checking with neighbors and sure enough they were having problems too. We purchased from a “reputable” builder but he had somewhat shady subcontractors and we were stuck with totally devalued homes. Long story short, we all had to sue to recover the values of our homes. Makes me seriously gun-shy about EVER buying a house again that I don’t personally oversee the building of on a daily basis.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:17:14 +0000

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

We just took my wife’s care to get fixed at another nationally recognized shop. They wanted to charge us about $300. We called a friend who use to work on cars, bought the part ourself, and got everything done for $60. The company was charging OVER 2X the price of the part AND they were charging $1 per minute of labor. Ugh.

And a second note, my parents just tried to get their 2 bathrooms remodeled. They paid a contractor $16,000 to do the work. The contractor sent a POOL DIGGER to do the work. Needless to say it is horrendous. The sad thing is that my parents researched the contractor before contacting him. Everything checked out at the time. It has been almost 6 months since the project was started and one bathroom is completely torn to shreds, the other is worse off then it was before. Unfortunately, the contractor abandoned the job and my parents had to file suit (not something they would normally do).

It’s just a sad thing when people take advantage of people. I hate to see it, but it is everywhere.

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By: M. Steve Heartsill

M. Steve Heartsill — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:21 +0000

We bought our brand new house 2 1/2 years ago, in the dead of winter. We have a two story house, and two units. The downstairs unit didn’t seem to work well…so, I called the company and they came out to check it…Apparently, when they were installing the unit they forgot to hook it up to electricity! So, one unit was trying to heat the entire house…Not only did the company not know this…the inspector “missed” it…So, they hooked it up and the heating seemed to work fine.

When summer came along, we couldn’t cool the house. Another call. This time, they found out that they “missed” putting coolant in it! We had a one year warranty on the unit…after the first year, we’ve gone with another company!

Our previous house…they failed to hook up the hot water heater…nothing like a cold shower in early November!

I don’t trust most repair people…too many of them have proven to be nothing more than crooks! Don’t even get me started talking about car repairmen!!!

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By: Bill(cycleguy)

Bill(cycleguy) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:41:35 +0000

Frustrating for sure K. I feel as you do. I am blessed with a man in the church who does Heating & AC for a living so when our furnace went out in less than a year after moving into the house I had the warranty guy come. He diagnosed it as a heater core. I called Mark and surprise of all surprises he said the same thing. But I had Mark install it. There is a definite lack of integrity these days even among Christ-followers. We must learn to be honest people.

On the side: have you considered calling the national homebuilder to tell them about it? That may change the way they work with the cheaters and liars. Just a thought. Also glad it was nothing serious.

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