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Tenks_sl said:
My builder was pretty upfront and honest with what the warranty covered and did not cover. Such as the crack in the cement I knew wouldn't be covered because it has to be wider than 1/8". I forget the actual amount but it needed to be wider. Luckily my garage cement has only cracked where it is supposed to crack.

My stamped back patio, however, is beyond fucked up and my builder is refusing to warranty it. But I kind of expected that and was just taking a shot in the dark trying to get them to pony up some cash to repair it.
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Knowing what I know now, I would never put in a patio, especially concrete, on a new build. When they back fill the house all that shit settles, sometimes 6"-8" or more over time. They dont do shit to settle that shit for fear of fucking up the foundation. When I moved into my current house we tore down the deck because it was rotten. So underneath was the original concrete patio. Like 12x16 or some shit. Well the two slabs along my house sunk like 8" making the center expansion joint like 3" wide. And worse than that I finally discovered why I had basement leak problems. Everything was puddling along the house because of the negative slope. I finally replaced all that shit last summer with a new poured patio. All to grade and with proper slope. Also over the years Ive probably added close to like 5-8 yrds of topsoil around my house thats how bad it was. Now all along my foundation there is a nice slope going away from the house. Have not had a problem with water in the basement since.
 
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Fuckin shame to be treated that way, if i was a hotshot Texas lawyer with an Asian wife I'd take your case pro bono.
 
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Knowing what I know now, I would never put in a patio, especially concrete, one on a new build. When they back fill the house all that shit settles, sometimes 6"-8" or more over time. When I moved into my current house we tore down the deck because it was rotten. So underneath was the original concrete patio. Like 12x16 or some shit. Well the two slabs along my house sunk like 8" making the center expansion joint like 3" wide. And worse than that I finally discovered why I had basement leak problems. Everything was puddling along the house because of the negative slope. I finally replaced all that shit last summer with a new poured patio. All to grade and with proper slope. Also over the years Ive probably added close to like 5-8 yrds of topsoil around my house thats how bad it was. Now all along my foundation there is a nice slope going away from the house. Have not had a problem with water in the basement since.
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This is very prevalent in structures with basements because it is difficult to compact the backfill on the outside without putting pressure on the basement wall which is gets them immediate problems. They should all backfill with stone but you'll still have some settlement or sloughing if it's against fill.

It got my attention in commercial where you design a sidewalk along the outside of a building and it drops at the door or drains toward the building, with ADA tolerances it's a motherfucker.
 
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Picasso_sl said:
Fuckin shame to be treated that way, if i was a hotshot Texas lawyer with an Asian wife I'd take your case pro bono.
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Its not a matter of paying for the case, if there were assets to get a good construction lawyer would take it on contingency.
 
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Cad_sl said:
Its not a matter of paying for the case, if there were assets to get a good construction lawyer would take it on contingency.
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We couldn't get it on contingency because of statue of limitations/repose complexities. Basically, we have multiple leaks for multiple reasons (patio, windows, flashing, and lack of gutters). The builder tried to address one source of the leaks during the warranty period with caulking/sealant. Even though his repairs were a sham and either didn't work, or only held for a year, the fact is that these "leaks" are now passed the statue of limitations, but our other leaks whose exact origin was only known/determined as of eight months ago are still technically under the statute of repose. Nevertheless, the construction attorneys said the builders lawyer would push to have everything deemed to be related to the original leak/fix and thrown out because of the statute of limitations. The complexity in litigating that, combined with the fact that it's "only" $350,000 or so in damages made it not worth their time to do contingency. HOA is going to pay for litigation at hourly rate..
 
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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
We couldn't get it on contingency because of statue of limitations/repose complexities. Basically, we have multiple leaks for multiple reasons (patio, windows, flashing, and lack of gutters). The builder tried to address one source of the leaks during the warranty period with caulking/sealant. Even though his repairs were a sham and either didn't work, or only held for a year, the fact is that these "leaks" are now passed the statue of limitations, but our other leaks whose exact origin was only known/determined as of eight months ago are still technically under the statute of repose. Nevertheless, the construction attorneys said the builders lawyer would push to have everything deemed to be related to the original leak/fix and thrown out because of the statute of limitations. The complexity in litigating that, combined with the fact that it's "only" $350,000 or so in damages made it not worth their time to do contingency. HOA is going to pay for litigation at hourly rate..
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I'd argue that the repairs they did and then when you discovered the repairs were ineffective is when the action accrued. But you'd have negligence and breach of contract, breach of contract would be 4 years so you should be ok there? Negligence is 2 years but should start from the time you discovered the negligence.

SoR is like 10 years I think and usually isn't an issue, but just puts a hard cap on discovery rule shenanigans.
 
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Picasso_sl said:
1.6 million to live with parents? Lol. That is dumb
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This is why we are looking at two units connected. My wives parents are getting old and culturally she wants to be able to help support. Her father just survived a bought with Lung cancer (had to have the lung removed in the end) and is very weak now.

I am fine with this as long as they take assist with care of our future children.
 
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koljec_sl said:
I like old houses, but that one is merely someone's staged renovation. Beware. Better to buy an old functional house and renovate it yourself. Better to have your own Frankenstein than someone else's.

Also, the front and back yards look shitty.
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You obviously don't know the market in the Boston area.
Land is limited in the towns surrounding the city and the houses are fucking old.

It's rare to find new constriction. (It's also much much more expensive.)
 
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I've heard that tearing anything down in Boston is an absolute nightmare as well
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If they pepper the whole city with historical districts and limit you building anything new/tearing down, then they are artificially inflating their own market. Same thing San Francisco is doing with their retarded building height limits/shitty zoning. Creates a very artificial housing scarcity which then drives prices through the roof for shitty/old stuff.

I'd say thats dumb but thats probably self-evident.
 
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Cad_sl said:
If they pepper the whole city with historical districts and limit you building anything new/tearing down, then they are artificially inflating their own market. Same thing San Francisco is doing with their retarded building height limits/shitty zoning. Creates a very artificial housing scarcity which then drives prices through the roof for shitty/old stuff.

I'd say thats dumb but thats probably self-evident.
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The height restriction in DC is pure AIDs.
 
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Well... from entirely a housing quantity perspective but it's probably not awful in the overall scheme of things because you get exclusive neighborhoods with quality and character instead of 3000 3 storey vinyl triplexes. Although i checked out the ear rest of Vinens area and the prices were pretty sickening.
 
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Well... from entirely a housing quantity perspective but it's probably not awful in the overall scheme of things because you get exclusive neighborhoods with quality and character instead of 3000 3 storey vinyl triplexes. Although i checked out the ear rest of Vinens area and the prices were pretty sickening.
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Which benefits people like me and Vinen and leaves you dumbasses that can't pay 2 mil for a decent house driving 1.5 hours to work every day.
 
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ZyyzYzzy_sl said:
Rub it in our pleb faces Mr. Fancy.
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That was a specific rebuttal to his "overall scheme of things" benefit. I'm guessing 99% of people would disagree that exclusive neighborhoods are good in the overall scheme of things. Those type of building restrictions are concentrated jizz right in the eye of the public.
 
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Well, let me move in there by building houses for the masses, watch my red blooded American retard children smash up all your lemonhead children in school, run you all off, then move memaw on social security in your old house who can't keep it up, and see where the city goes.
 
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Our household income is like top 3% in charleston, so I'm pretty much equal with cad and Vinen imo
 
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Well, let me move in there by building houses for the masses, watch my red blooded American retard children smash up all your lemonhead children in school, run you all off, then move memaw on social security in your old house who can't keep it up, and see where the city goes.
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The problem isn't having exclusive neighborhoods, it's having such sparsely populated exclusive neighborhoods. The density of those 1880's houses is pure shit. You could re-lot most of that and rebuild nice new houses in the 1.5-4 million range and fit a lot more people in. Then use the leftover land when demand for expensive properties dries up and build multifamily housing and densify tremendously.

I don't know much about Boston but San Francisco is about as dense as Queens but is more expensive than Manhattan. It's just retarded. If SF were as dense as Manhattan it would have like 3.2-3.3 million people but it has like 800k.
 
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