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Old 05-27-2009, 10:03 PM
 
Location: SoCal-So Proud!
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Is this a surprise?...


About 35 homeowners from the San Antonio Housing Authority's beleaguered Mirasol Homes neighborhoods plan to file lawsuits today against KB Home and Magi Realty alleging that their residences were poorly constructed.

The homeowners, all represented by the Law Offices of Frank Herrera, will file individual suits and have access to all information already gathered by Coats Rose, the firm representing SAHA in its ongoing case against KB Home.

SAHA recently deconstructed some houses in the West Side subdivision and found evidence of shoddy construction, Cavazos said. Defects include frames that weren't properly anchored to their foundations and roofing materials that were insufficient, according to SAHA.

Mirasol owners to sue KB, realty (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Mirasol_owners_to_sue_KB_realty.html - broken link)
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Old 05-27-2009, 10:50 PM
 
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Is this a surprise?...


About 35 homeowners from the San Antonio Housing Authority's beleaguered Mirasol Homes neighborhoods plan to file lawsuits today against KB Home and Magi Realty alleging that their residences were poorly constructed.

The homeowners, all represented by the Law Offices of Frank Herrera, will file individual suits and have access to all information already gathered by Coats Rose, the firm representing SAHA in its ongoing case against KB Home.

SAHA recently deconstructed some houses in the West Side subdivision and found evidence of shoddy construction, Cavazos said. Defects include frames that weren't properly anchored to their foundations and roofing materials that were insufficient, according to SAHA.

Mirasol owners to sue KB, realty (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Mirasol_owners_to_sue_KB_realty.html - broken link)
It would be interesting to know who is representing KB!
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Old 05-28-2009, 03:22 AM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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good, that's one company that needs to go away forever
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Old 05-28-2009, 05:28 AM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Just flying in to check out this thread...

(edit: ROFLcopter didn't work :\ no way to get ascii art to display correctly)

Is this a new lawsuit, or the old one that hit the news again?
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Old 05-28-2009, 05:43 AM
 
Location: Austintown, OH
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Maybe the company that built these could have their own show on A & E as well
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Old 05-28-2009, 07:10 AM
 
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But, how many homes were built total? 100000 in 10 years? And only 30-50 bad homes? I would be curious to see how many complaints vs. actual satisfied customers. I'm not defending them (personally, I'm biased against them), but the big boys will always get envied.
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Old 05-28-2009, 07:31 AM
 
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I don't know much about the Mirasol Homes community - but wasn't this low to moderate income housing - basically glorified projects. The demographic that fills these homes (and other HUD facilities) aren't exactly known for taking care of residences. These were built super cheap...

You get what you pay for. Had Pulte, Centex, Fieldstone or any other production builder gotten sucked into building homes for this Mirasol project - they would probably be sued as well for the same thing. This is a public housing project - what do you really expect? KB's biggest mistake was letting Henry Cisneros talk them into taking this project on.
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Old 05-28-2009, 08:31 AM
 
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I don't know much about the Mirasol Homes community - but wasn't this low to moderate income housing - basically glorified projects. The demographic that fills these homes (and other HUD facilities) aren't exactly known for taking care of residences. These were built super cheap...

You get what you pay for. Had Pulte, Centex, Fieldstone or any other production builder gotten sucked into building homes for this Mirasol project - they would probably be sued as well for the same thing. This is a public housing project - what do you really expect? KB's biggest mistake was letting Henry Cisneros talk them into taking this project on.
Hey, thanks for your judgement about how low to moderate income people take care of their homes. That's awesome.
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Old 05-28-2009, 08:34 AM
 
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Hey, thanks for your judgement about how low to moderate income people take care of their homes. That's awesome.
Agreed! Awesome indeed.
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Old 05-28-2009, 09:00 AM
 
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I don't know much about the Mirasol Homes community - but wasn't this low to moderate income housing - basically glorified projects. The demographic that fills these homes (and other HUD facilities) aren't exactly known for taking care of residences. These were built super cheap...

You get what you pay for. Had Pulte, Centex, Fieldstone or any other production builder gotten sucked into building homes for this Mirasol project - they would probably be sued as well for the same thing. This is a public housing project - what do you really expect? KB's biggest mistake was letting Henry Cisneros talk them into taking this project on.
Srsly? KB CHOSE to take this on. They own the responsibility. Period. Add Henry as an accessory if you must use your logic.

I have to agree that your assessment of the "demographics" is a tragic judgment on low income homeowners. Lets ignore them because they basically don't matter?? Should we let them eat cake?
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