House Judiciary Committee Re: Mandatory Arbitration Clauses New Construction

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_http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/June2007/061207fogal.pdf_

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.....Well, this was not one overlooked plumbing connection, as my husband so

desperately wanted to believe.

It was a preview of coming attractions. Rainwater, from outside, sprayed

us at the kitchen table. – The

windows were installed upside down (our builder finally admitted this

after three years). Our floors buckled

and black spider-webs of mold crawled up our walls; the smell grew worse;

then shower wall fell out and

little puffballs grew out of the carpet. All the while, we had begged our

builder to please fix our house.

We had the mold tested by an accredited laboratory, and they said they had

never seen toxic readings that

high in an inhabited dwelling. Prior to this, we had not mentioned the

nosebleeds, headaches, the swollen

eyes, and the sinus infections because we had seen how people were

treated. Their defects were dismissed

because the homebuyers were crazy hypochondriacs. My builder said everyone

has mold and it doesn't

bother anybody. Yet, he takes allergy shots. People have told me, and I

have heard testimony, of

children's eardrums bursting, babies vomiting up blood, and even the

family cat suddenly dying.

Stachybotrys and Chaetomium will make you deathly ill. We took the reports

to our family doctor. She told

us to move out of the house immediately. We sent the report to our

builder. He lied under oath, said he

never received it, yet he sent it to his engineer the same day; and the

engineer was sitting right there in

the room with our emails. Some were hand written, and I noticed them. He

was asked by our attorney to

read them and to read where he had gotten them and the date. We swore to

tell the truth in arbitration.

Are only homebuyers bound by this oath?

When does lying become perjury? When does the civil become criminal?

We moved out of our home. We had gotten estimates for repairs, and they

were all $150,000 or more. Our

builder kept telling the media it would only cost about 2 to 5 thousand

dollars to fix our house, and that

was all they wanted to do.....

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