On Aug 10, 8:44 am, greg3347 wrote:
On Aug 9, 11:15 pm, GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer
wrote:



What do you expect when quick-buck-artist contractors hire illegal aliens
who typically use a dozen aliases, are drunk and/or high, and who not even
the police know the true names of, right off the street or the parking lot
of a Home Depot?

As early as a few years ago I was posting links to a Consumer Reports
article about this very issue, which even at that junture was emerging as a
serious issue. It was OBVIOUS even then, to anyone with any sense, that
down the road there was going to be a national epidemic of serious
construction problems with the perhaps millions of new illegal-alien-bult
homes that sprouted across the USA during the heady "to-hell-with-the-law"
1990s and into the new millennium.

While understandably frustrated, the homeowners who bought such crappy
illegal-alien-assembled houses should be thankful if the illegals who built
their houses don't return to the scene of their labor to rape, rob or
murder them (there are LOTS of news reports of ilegal alien "day laborers"
raping, robbing and murdering those who hired them -- seewww.daylaborers.orgorperform your own online serach, for example).

I'm reminded of a GREAT video at YouTube (and probably other websites) of
a trained, experienced, skilled Mexican-American construction worker giving
an OUTSTANDING speech -- on-site at a construction site which uses illegal
aliens -- exactly on this whole issue. I hope someone can post a link to
it, or remind me of the man's name, for in my opinion he's the salt of the
earth, a GREAT American, and the kind of Mexican-AMERICAN I *thought* I was
going to find in California, as opposed to the "For The Race Everything,
for those outside The Race nothing" anti-American, ¡Mexico First! illegal
aliens who've flooded the region.
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You Call This a Home?

The next boom for builders may be complaints from angry homeowners

By MARA DER HOVANESIAN
BusinessWeek Online

Residents of a new housing development in South Carolina fear that fumes
from contaminated soil have caused dizziness and blackouts. In Colorado,
homeowners say they were led to believe they'd enjoy a recreational lake
that never materialized, causing property values to slip. As the housing
slump worsens, U.S. homebuilders increasingly find themselves fending off
complaints of shoddy construction, unsavory sales tactics, and use of
unsafe land.

There's no definitive gauge of consumer sentiment toward builders, but
several signs point to growing unease. The annual new-home satisfaction
surveys done by J.D. Power & Associates, which like BusinessWeek is a unit
of The McGraw-Hill Companies, showed customer attitudes improving from 2001
to 2004 and then leveling off. But last year's survey, released in
September, showed a 7 percent increase in the number of construction-defect
complaints per home.

Criterium Engineers, a Portland, Maine building-inspection service active
in 35 states, found that from 2003 to 2006 the number of new homes with
"significant problems" rose more than 13 percent. A public fund in Nevada
created to settle builder complaints paid claims of nearly $1.2 million in
2006, up from $234,000 in 2003.

This is only the beginning, says Ronald T. Kozlowski, a property casualty
actuary with the consulting firm Towers Perrin in San Francisco. "Right now
you're seeing the construction claims start to come in," he says, "but
it'll take five to seven years" to get a full measure of the angry fallout.
Anti-builder Web sites are proliferating, and two consumer groups,
HomeOwners for Better Building and Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings,
are compiling online lists of beefs against developers.

Whenever there's a rush of building as there has been over the last five
years, complaints are sure to follow. Some can be written off to
unrealistic expectations. The National Association of Home Builders says 55
percent of customer grievances concern caulking, paint, and other nitpicky
issues. This time the grumbling may be exacerbated by frustration over
developers' lending practices. And in areas where home values are dropping,
every chipped tile is infuriating.

[GWA note: Notice how the pro-corporate Business Week article tries to
minimize the American home buyers' complaints, even suggesting that
homeowners stuck with expensive but crappy, shoddily-built homes are
"nitpicking" out of spite! Yet NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of the proverbial
"elephant in the living room": connecting the construction problems to
*those* *who* *did* *the* *constructing*!]

Builders have inoculated themselves effectively against customers taking
their objections to court. Homeowners generally don't have the right to
sue; their only legal recourse is arbitration, as required in most sales
contracts.

[GWA note: So in the "America" of 2007 the ILLEGAL ALIENS who built the
shoddily-constructed houses can sue entire U.S. cities (does the name
"Hazleton, Pennsylvania" ring a bell?) but AMERICANS themselves CAN'T use
the same legal system to sue!]

Contracts also typically prohibit customers from disclosing problems to
the media or prospective buyers. Better Business Bureaus aren't always
helpful, because builders can simply drop out. Four big builders
voluntarily left Houston's BBB in 2004 and 2005, for example. And builders
are only lightly regulated, primarily by state and local authorities.

Even so, consumers are becoming increasingly vocal in their complaints.
Clyde M. and Tracy D. Singleton, a couple in their 50s from Shepherdstown,
W.Va., say that one month after they moved into their new $409,000 house
last October, the basement filled with sewage a foot deep. Tracy says the
couple spent three months in a hotel before their developer, Reston,
Va.-based NVR Inc., got the place cleaned up. The Singletons have resisted
arbitration. Instead they have alleged in a suit pending in federal court
in Martinsburg, W.Va., that NVR failed to put in an underground shut-off
valve to prevent sewage from backing up into their house. The plaintiffs
claim that since the valve should have been installed outside of their
home, the dispute isn't covered by the arbitration clause in their
contract.

NVR counters in a motion to dismiss the suit that the action lacks any
merit. The Singletons have "failed to allege any facts" indicating that the
company "unreasonably used its property" to harm the plaintiffs, NVR
argues.

Lennar Corp. another large builder, has drawn scrutiny in South Carolina.
Residents of its new Pebble Creek development in North Charleston, such as
Bill and Holly Hurley, say they have suffered from light-headedness,
lethargy, and depression. Home inspections they commissioned showed unsafe
levels of methane gas, which the Hurleys and others fear may be linked to
possible soil contamination by a previous land owner.

Miami-based Lennar says in a written statement that it "hired a
consulting firm before the land was developed and found no evidence of
recognized environmental conditions" at that time. Playing down health
concerns, Lennar acknowledges that methane has seeped out of "broken sewer
pipes and improperly seated toilets," which it says it has now repaired.
The ultimate source of the gas hasn't been determined, however. The company
has bought back one house as a result of the controversy.

Lennar perceives another cause for anxiety in Pebble Creek. Its general
counsel, Mark Sustana, says in an interview that buyers are aggravated over
seeing their investments depreciate as the housing boom has given way to a
bust.

http://realestate.aol.com/article/_a...me/20070806142...
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:

"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonaldwww.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

http://www.PredatoryAliens.comwww.Im....DayLaborers.o...
See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:www.ImmigrationCounters.com
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"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")

-- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded
organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the USA
(Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
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"How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico"
By John Dillinhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html

Excerpt:

"General Eisenhower ... quoted a report in The New York Times,
highlighting one paragraph that said: 'The rise in illegal border-crossing
by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
Government ..."

"Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
office.

"America 'was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large
scale,' Mr. Brownell said. 'When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.'"
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Just two of MANY American cops

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No they are hard laborers that do exactly what the boss tells them to,
even if the boss cant find his ass with both hands. In Chicago the
illegal immigrants have all but taken over the drywall and lathing
trades, those unions are basically kaput, why, because the work is
dirty, hard and the results the illegals provided at a very low cost
was good. The next trade around here going to the illegals are
framing crews, last year (when they were still building homes)
practically every framing crew I see was Mexican, trim carpentry is
still union though. The next trade going to them is excavation and
concrete work. Then I would say bricklaying comes next most of these
crews have been illegal, especially the crews provided by the brick
supply yards, but commercial brickwork is still all union because they
will shut down the whole job if one illegal is found on commercial
site laying a brick. Of course landscape work too. Plumbing and
Electrical are the last two real hold outs for union labor, and in
Chicago you rarely see illegals doing Plumbing or Electrical work.