Posted On: November 5, 2008, 10:25 am CST

Posted By: Cindy

My side is the side of homeowners who are financially ruined by shoddy construction. I've seen many homeowners lose everything just because their builder didn't know or care how to do things right, and it was so hard to hold them accountable. Right to repair/cure was not brought about because of greedy or unreasonable consumers; it was brought about because so many consumers were trying to hold bad builders accountable and the industry's reaction was to insulate their industry from accountability. This is a twisted way to "solve" the construction defect problem. It's like a hospital saying the way to solve the problem with post surgical staph infections is to kill the patients who get it.