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Housing market (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (8 children)

You should look up CyFy on YouTube. He does residential building inspection in Arizona and the build quality is appalling. Broken trusses, lacking insulation, roof leaks, stucco with exposed wire backing on top of literal cardboard for structure...

Cracks in the sinks and tubs, walls so horrifying out of square you wonder how they managed to fuck it up that badly. Unlevel floors with humps or saddles. Tiles misaligned so badly you can take a strip off your foot without realizing.

There's always multiple things from the above in every house he posts... And it's not just one house, it's all of them. Literally all of them... They deny, delay, defend the shit out of warranty claims and at least in Arizona hope you close and don't raise a fuss before hand.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's because he doesn't get called in unless the homeowner believes there are egregious problems for him to find. It's sampling bias, not a universal trend.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    He talks about this in his videos where he'll see the same problems in half the homes in a neighborhood because neighbors talk to each other and recommend him

    Edit: just watch some of his videos you won't have to spend much time to see what I mean. It's systemic...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    "Systemic" within one neighborhood (or even one builder) isn't the same as "systemic" in general. I mean, of course if one builder doing something wrong, he's likely to be doing it wrong consistently. But unless that builder is, say, D.R. Horton (which, to be fair, it very well could be), you can't really say that just because one random builder is doing it wrong that means the entire industry is doing it wrong.

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