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HOME ENGINEERING
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Where Quality Counts and Honesty Matters
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Investigations into the Sunridge Heights and Sunridge Manor communities have yielded misrepresentations by D R Horton. Many, if not all home owners who border the "wash" at Sunridge were told that the land in and near the wash would remain undeveloped. However, permits for an access road had already been issued. These home owners paid premiums from $35,000 to $100,000 for their vista views. Subsequent to their purchases, the view will now be overlooking the rooftops of the next and neighboring development communities. Update: The lowly consumers banded together in sufficient numbers to prevent rezoning of the wash which would have allowed for further development. Subsequently, however, Horton again dragged its feet and worked its magic to get the wash developed in spite of consumer efforts and consumers' financial losses.
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At the Monterey Cove development in Las Vegas, D R Horton represented to home buyers that their gated community would be limited and restricted to only Monterey Cove residents. Horton had apparently reserved an easement through the now un-gated community to serve the next neighboring community that they plan on building adjacent to Monterey Cove. The Monterey Cove consumers have apparently purchased land next to an easement which, in scope and use, has grown to such a size that it has effectively become a highway on and off ramp.
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The games D R Horton plays.... You can send them certified mail and have the USPS certifiy that it has been delivered, but D R Horton will invariably claim non receipt of the correspondence. Horton will drag its feet until you go away....or threaten legal action. Add about $20,000 to the cost of a D R Horton home (filing fees and an attorney) and years worth of headaches.
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Options and upgrades:
In one instance, a $17,000 option was billed at $24,000. Ed Smith of D R Horton claimed that the 41% surcharge was as a result of increased materials costs. Those costs came back down the next week for the neighbor who paid $17,000 for the same option.
Warranty requests:
Requesting a warranty repair within the first year is apparantly insufficient. You have to get D R Horton to perform within that year or be "out of warranty."
And the lack of consumer satisfaction continues....After notification of stucco soft enough to rub off with a fingertip, Horton has opted to not warranty consumers' homes throughout the Sunridge Estate and Manor developments in Henderson Nevada. Your home should just be solid enough so that the big bad wolf, or a breeze, can blow it down.
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In Riverside California, D R Horton acquired Schuler homes after negotiations in early 2001. At their Hidden Valley development, Horton intimated to prospective consumers that views and roads may be obstructed and extended respectively in future development. Horton neglected to mention that 600 homes had already been approved to be built at the time of consumer contract signing. Better still, after Schuler purchased the Hidden Valley land, they neglected to mention the true nature of their “industrial research facility” and neighbor, Wyle Labs. For that matter, ‘Wyle’ was spelled ‘Wiley,’ which is the name of a bona fide and benevolent research lab run by Harvard, 3000 miles away. Wyle, on the other hand is a defense contractor whose activities are “incompatible with residential housing” because of the lead, vinyl chloride, PCB’s, benzene, benzopyrene, PAH’s, benzofluoranthene, chloroform, aroclors, trichloroethylene, dibenzanthracene, and radioactive waste, either stored or generated there. These chemicals are 12 of the 20 most hazardous carcinogens as defined by the federal government.
James K Schuler is now D R Horton’s Western Region President, a position no doubt obtained as a result of a job well done. Does Horton believe that it can get away with murder? Does Silkwood, Love Canal and Three Mile Island come to mind? Where do Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, Schwartzenegger, Perotta and others stand? Are consumers as disposable as, or expected to have the same lifespan of a hand towel? Apparently, but only after purchase of the contaminated Superfund land has been consummated.
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In late May 2007, D R Horton altered special inspection reports or forged documents regarding structural steel which anchors homes to their foundation in a 240 home development in Yuba County California. D R Horton's executive vice president, Stacey Dwyer "sincerely regrets that this has happened." [www.siskiyoudaily.com]. I'm sure though that she was happy to cash the check for taking that shortcut last year, and at the expense of home owners. GET YOUR HOUSE INSPECTED!
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