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Don't Trust The Builder
Don't Trust The Builder
 
     Shiny objects.  Fancy Counters.  "Design credits".  Closing cost help.  All this can be yours, if you just trust the builder.  Their escrow/title company.  Their lender.  Your own representation?  You don't need that!  Someone with a fiduciary duty to you?  Don't worry about it!
 
     But what about the buyer who bought a high-end home from a well known builder with electrical defects that caused a fire?  Followed by the builder fighting tooth and nail to avoid liability, causing a nightmare for the new home owners?  What about the builder who insisted the buyer not have a home inspection (after all, it's new, PRISTINE, construction!), and during the home inspection (which they got at my insistence - funny, their in-house lender wasn't insisiting) they discovered electrical outlet covers with nothing but dry wall behind them?? What about the builder who wasted the buyer's time with their own "in house" lender promising the moon and the stars (we wouldn't preapprove them because they didn't qualify) - after putting in notice, and planning their move, the builder's lender delivered the bad news - they didn't qualify.  What about the builder who took a $120K deposit from an unrepresented buyer, ... more

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