As for the initial post, why in the hell would you close on a house where you had a major concern with drainage. You should have demanded an acceptable resolution or said goodbye, even if that meant losing your deposit. It wouldn’t have gotten to that point, Centex would have gone out of their way in order not to lose the sale. Another mess up; you should have never closed on the house without getting a private home inspector. Cleary this cat has no clue about building a house.

As for Doc, he has some good points but since when did code cover bowed studs. No code on the planet covers cosmetics or as he so elegantly puts it, “sloppy painting.”

News flash, track builders are exactly that. They build products that are repetitive, thus keeping costs down. It’s all about volume. If you can afford a “custom” home then buy one. But guess what, the quality of a custom home is not going to be much better. What you are seeing here are a select few that probably did have some issues. But that is with any builder, large or small. For every ten homes built, at least one is going to be a lemon. Thus, that is probably why Centex ranks so high on JDPower.

In conclusion, simply read poor Diana’s post. Like I said in my opening statement; if she did buy the house, she is most likely waiting on Obama to bail her out of foreclosure.

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-voters-are.html

I think that might explain some of why Joe has some issues with his party right now.

The problem, as I see it, is one of control. There is enough problems with people associating comments with the owner, now might a blogger get smeared by links over which he has no control? I dunno.

But, as Frank Rich put it this weekend, “Any 12-year-old with a laptop could have vetted this preacher in 30 seconds, tops.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html

Which, I suppose, tells us all something significant about the competency of John McCain’s presidential campaign.