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- From: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com (Les Bartel)
- Subject: Re: Your expeirences with Breland Homes and Brian Homes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.184208.15936@infonode.ingr.com>
- Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Reply-To: lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation
- References: <1993Jan28.153137.5671@b30.b30.ingr.com> <1993Jan28.174308.13503@infonode.ingr.com>
- Distribution: hsv
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:42:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.174308.13503@infonode.ingr.com>, jim@doink.b23b.ingr.com (James B. Reed) writes:
- |> We ended up having to send a threatening letter (mentioning a lawyer)
- |> before they would fix a problem we had with water coming into the
- |> garage. Before sending the letter, we had hasseled with them for
- |> about six months during which they kept telling us that they would
- |> have to regrade part of our lot to fix the problem. Everytime men
- |> came out for the work, they "sealed" the foundation instead of
- |> regrading. The work was completed within a couple of weeks of the
- |> letter.
- |>
- |> Their workers (or subcontractors) rarely did more than a barely adequate
- |> job. They slopped over simple details frequently, especially the paint.
- |> We finally gave up on getting them to finish a couple of minor items
- |> on the punch list when we realized that they wouldn't (or couldn't)
- |> do it right.
-
- Has anyone put a few thousand dollars in a trust account that gets paid
- to the builder at the end of the first year? This would (hopefully)
- guarantee that the builder would fix any problems that came up. If they
- weren't fixed, the owner could use the money in trust to fix the problem
- and give the remainder (if any) to the builder at the end of the year.
-
- Another thing I just thought of would be to pay the builder $X/12 each
- month from the trust account to give some incentive to fix any problems
- within a month or risk not getting their monthly "payment".
-
- I have never heard of this, and wonder if this sort of arrangement could
- be done? Of course, if you mention the "l" word (as Jim did), you can
- usually get some action, and I suspect the BBB would help too.
-
- - les
-
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- Les Bartel Push to test ---> @
- Intergraph Corporation ... release to detonate
- Electronics Division
- lester@naomi.b23b.ingr.com Is spec short for specification
- (205) 730-8537 or speculation?
- Oh, I get it, they're synonyms!
-