"House from Hell" — How America’s Largest Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
partial_accumen @ partial_accumen @lemmy.world Posts 1Comments 4,235Joined 2 yr. ago
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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: