Boo! Homeowners are putting a scare into builders over errors, inadequate fees
AP's Jim Wasserman, for my money the best journalist in the nation on CID issues, strikes again, this time laying the smack down about construction defect litigation:


By Jim Wasserman, The Associated Press
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- When Jim Viele moved to Sun City Roseville in 1997, he expected to be thinking more about golf than landscaping, drip irrigation systems and lawsuits.But as head of his homeowners association, Viele is mired in a lawsuit with Del Webb, the nation's premier builder of privately run adult communities. The association claims the developer saddled the 5,400 residents with defective water systems that caused trees and turf to die and the golf course to become soggy...Virginia lawyer David Mercer said cities that approve development projects and property management companies that run them should be more outspoken about the financial foundations developers leave for private communities, many thousands of homes. "They've created a little city in many respects," he said.
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