new home buyers lose--again

• when county building inspectors fail to pick up obvious building code violations, then new home buyers lose. 
• when the county building code enforcement official fails to cite the builder for obvious building code violations (after telling the homeowners that he was going to do so), choosing instead to "reach out" (his words) to the builder, then, besides being outrageous, new home buyers lose.
• when the county attorney fails to cite the builder for obvious building code violations, choosing to send threatening letters to the homeowners instead, then, besides being outrageous, new home buyers lose.
• when the homeowners ask their representative on the county board of supervisors to look into the matter, and the supervisor turns a deaf ear to them instead, then, besides being outrageous, new home buyers lose.
• when the builder violates the building code and the approved grading plan that call for the ground at foundation walls to slope away from foundation walls a minimum of 6 inches in 10 feet, and the homeowners' crawl space floods, then new home buyers lose.
• when the builder connects buried flexible plastic pipes, that have high and low points, to downspouts, and buries the outlet end, then new home buyers lose.
• when the builder installs roof gutters level, instead of sloped, and roof gutters overflow, then new home buyers lose.
• when roof gutters are too small for the roof area that they drain, and roof gutters overflow, then new home buyers lose.
• when downspouts empty into crawl spaces, then new home buyers lose.
• when the builder builds foundation walls with large buried holes (presumably because the builder didn't want to excavate rock), with earth spilling through into the crawl space that is otherwise sealed to the outside, providing an easy path for rodents, snakes, etc. to get into the crawl space, then new home buyers lose.
• when the temperature inside a bedroom is more than 10 degrees colder than the thermostat setting (located 15 ft. from the bedroom), with the supply vent and the bedroom door wide open, then new home buyers lose.
• when floors go BANG when you walk on them, then new home buyers lose.
• when foul odors come from a bathroom sink, then the home buyers lose. 
• when new home buyers pay from their pockets to "fix" (if they can be--some "built-in" problems can't be fixed) builders' code violations, poor construction and bad science (building a house is more than a pretty floor plan) and government inspection and code enforcement failures, then new home buyers lose--literally.

customer talk: the public isn't being protected from bad builders--take shenandoah county, virginia, for example.

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