#20
Sat, January 12, 2002
They filed the following to the above Rip-Off Report: Their email: [email protected] Their name: CS Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion Rebuttal: Many tract home builders today are getting away with shoddy work, then ignoring the warranty. They know it will probably be too difficult, too frustrating, and too expensive, for the homeowner to pursue it. By the time a person realizes they have serious faults, it may be near the end of the statute of limitations for filing suit, or past it. The homebuilding industry, (National Association of Homebuilders for starters), has lobbyists and lawyers busily working to make sure the laws favor only them, not homeonwers. Consumer advocate groups can give you information that may help you, and unpaid volunteers in these groups work to fight for better laws, such as a Home Lemon Law similar to the one in existence for cars. Take a look at www.hadd.com and www.hobb.org You'll see you're hardly alone, not as a customer of Ryan, and not as a ripped off homebuyer. You can file a complaint on www.hadd.com From our personal experience, we are very glad we got an FHA loan on this house, because HUD-FHA has been the only gov't agency to take any action whatsoever against our builder. If you had an FHA, or for that matter VA, loan, file a written complaint with HUD or VA respectively, too.