- Report: #861328
Complaint Review: Pulte Homes - San Antonio Texas
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Angry in Pulte's Fairhaven -
Cibolo, Texas, United States of America
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Pulte Homes
1354 N Loop 1604 E, Suite 108 San Antonio, 78232 Texas, United States of America
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Pulte Homes Broken foundations San Antonio, Texas
In Pulte's Fairhaven subdivision in Schertz, Texas, the geotechnical survey of the area indicated high plasticity of expandable soil where the homes were to be built. Aerial photos also show two spring-fed stock ponds, which were later filled in and built on. No provision was made to provide drainage for the spring fed stock tanks, which results in water coursing under foundations, cracking and splitting them. Some of the foundation cracks are horizontal in nature, extending up to twenty feet in length. Other homes have massive cement slabs which are tilting away from level- with as much as eight inches of differential from one side of the home to the other. Pulte and her engineers tell us it is due to expansive soil and is nothing more than normal settling. IUn Federal loan application paperwork, Pulte personnel falsified the data, indicating the homes were not built on expansive soil, were not built on slopes and were not built on fill. The homes were built on expansive soil with plasticity up to .61, well above limits for construction. Many of the homes were built on what had been slopes and were filled in less than three months earlier, with no apparent compaction. Pulte does not want to buy back these homes, but they have no remedy for broken and tilted foundations.
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voiceofreason
North Carolina,United States of America
Lawyers involved yet?
#2Consumer Comment
Fri, March 30, 2012
Have any homeowners or the subdivision HOA began legal action against Pulte yet? I would think this should be getting dealt with in the courts. Are local legislators or housing authorities/inspectors involved? The EPA? The owners/servicers of your collective mortgages, all of whom have a financial stake in the stability of the foundations? Maybe your title insurer? The more dogs get sicked on Pulte the better.
