Home Construction Standards, Warranties Now Effective in Texas
Texas / South Central News • June 13, 2005
All homebuilders and remodelers in Texas must now offer new mandated warranties and building performance standards for home construction as outlined by the Texas Residential Construction ...
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Subject: RE: RE: Texas new home warranties. What a joke.
Posted On: June 14, 2005, 8:41 am CDT
Posted By: Chris
Comment:
Hal, you're joking, right?
This law has nothing to do with protecting the homeowner from the small contractor that has no insurance and no assets. This law is about protecting the big time builders (read: large political donors, i.e. David Weekly) that have assets, from homeowners that have been sold shoddily built houses.
If this were a true consumer protection law, it would be like the lemon law for cars. The standard for what is an acceptible level of defects would be zero. After the builders had to eat enough of these badly built houses, they'd quit sub-contracting out to contractors that get their "craftsmen" (read: day-laborers) on street corners.
As many flaws as the thirty year old used house that I just bought has, I'd stack it up to anything new being sold by the big-time guys today.
Subject: RE: RE: Texas new home warranties. What a joke.
This law has nothing to do with protecting the homeowner from the small contractor that has no insurance and no assets. This law is about protecting the big time builders (read: large political donors, i.e. David Weekly) that have assets, from homeowners that have been sold shoddily built houses.
If this were a true consumer protection law, it would be like the lemon law for cars. The standard for what is an acceptible level of defects would be zero. After the builders had to eat enough of these badly built houses, they'd quit sub-contracting out to contractors that get their "craftsmen" (read: day-laborers) on street corners.
As many flaws as the thirty year old used house that I just bought has, I'd stack it up to anything new being sold by the big-time guys today.