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Several people have told me I should sue the builder, and I probably should, but I’d have to pay for a lawyer, and it would probably take months and months.
IANAL, but I'm wondering if for your situation you'd have more success with a whole string of Small Claims court. A quick Google search for your area says this:
"You can ask for up to $25,000 in most small claims actions in the Tennessee General Sessions Court."
I'm betting nearly every one of your findings and fixes you had to pay for would be under that. There's no lawyer needed to file them, as you can do them yourself, and for the builder to have to defend it, they'll have to send their expensive lawyer to each court proceeding. If they don't show, you could get a default judgment and just win outright with no battle for the legal judgment. Now, collecting may be a different problem though. You could keep one claim going all the time so you don't have to do them all at once (and make it worth it for them to put a billable lawyer on it".
June:
TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract "missing attic insulation" claim of $12,485
August:
TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract "missing main drain connection" claim of $7,434
etc.
If you string this out long enough, one of two things will happen:
You'll eventually get paid for all the fixes you needed to begin with that you paid out-of-pocket
DR Horton will actually show back up and say "fine, show us what's actually broken and we'll give you one single large check to go away"
Listen, I get it that the Austin PD, as the example here, are doing their best. I get it that they aren't their own ultimate masters. All those points are made. I'm also GLAD that the APD are doing what they can within their rules to warn residents that these actions are happening. Yes thats good.
However, thats approach of harm reduction, not harm avoidance. The good folks of the APD are being used as tools to carry out the harm though. They may not want to, but they are. Is anyone claiming different? The state doesn't need to take over the APD to get the harm the state wants done. The question, and its a rhetorical one, is "where is the line?". At what point is it better to say "no, I won't do that" and be replaced by the state? I fear that day will come, but it needs to be examined now, before the state asks for something worse.
Those advancements were made possible by the Roadster, which was the true pioneering product that made EVs cool again. A car that was dreamed up and invented by Martin Eberhard, and would go on to be built by someone else that gave him the shittiest end of the most shit-covered stick there ever was.
All credit due to Eberhard and Tarpenning for the idea and some of the initial development of the BMS, but its not like they had a full car ready to sell and before Musk came in. Tesla was established as a company in 2003, Musk was brought in (with his money) in 2004. The first Roadster sold in 2008. Now stop making me say anything positive about Musk just to set the record straight. Its making me sick to talk about him positively after what he's become and how much harm he has caused human society.
It’s not rare for the first company to bring a product to market to not be the top dog once other companies get involved.
Except Tesla wasn't the first mass market EV. It wasn't even the second. The first would be the GM EV1 in 1997:
Many would argue that the EV1 doesn't count because it was on old technology. Fine then, the Nissan Leaf from 2009 then sporting its lithium battery:
Tesla Model S brought performance, range and styling that both of those were missing. However, we don't need Tesla anymore in the world if Musk is still benefiting from it.
I'm the last person to ever use the "both sides the same" but our side had some of that same problem during Obama's first term. Yes, key legislation was passed, but just barely and even some of those bills had some compromises.
A 3.5mm AUX jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.
The USB-C is unavailable because its being used to keep the phone powered. Is your solution to force everyone to carry yet another dongle in the form of a splitter?
You misunderstood. I don’t mean that the state or the feds will send their own people. I mean that they will literally take the police control away from the city government.
If they already have the local police doing their dirty work, haven't they already effectively done that?
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