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Lawyers Send Vague Construction Defect Notices in Attempt to Subvert SB 800’s Right of Repair

It seemed like such a simple concept. If there are any problems with your new home, you ask the homebuilder to fix the problems. If the builder makes the repair, the problem is solved and there’s no need to go to court. If the builder doesn’t fix the problems, you can go to court to force it to pay for the needed repairs.
That was the common sense idea behind the groundbreaking SB 800 construction defect litigation reform known as the "Right to Repair Law". But since its adoption in 2002, some of the lawyers who were cut out of the process by SB 800 began to devise ways to get back into the action. Instead of telling the builder what is specifically wrong with the home, these lawyers send builders vague and non-specific notices of general defects such as “soils/drainage problems,” “slab efflorescence/peeling/chafing,” structural/framing defects/deficiencies,” window condensation – multiple locations,” “heating/cooling deficiencies,” and “window leaks – multiple locations.”
Imagine the dilemma of the builder who is given this list of repairs. It can’t determine what the problem is or where it is located. How can it fix a defect that is not even described in the slightest detail? If homeowners can assert unknown and speculative claims, there can be no right to repair. The claim will almost certainly go to litigation instead.

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Our article "SB-800 & DECKS..." wins FOCUS MAGAZINE's Editors Choice Award for 2007 's issues.

We are please to announce that our article SB-800 and It's Effects on Decks and Their Warranties and Maintenance was chosen by the editors of Focus magazine as the best article of 2007!

We appreciate the recognition and thank the Chapter and the hardworking volunteers who make this great magazine happen. Our articles and every author who takes the time to write something that gives you valuable advice and information is written with one thing in mind-educating our customers and associates to help them make good business decisions.

Please join GLAC CAI if your in LA, or a CAI chapter near you-the education is worth it.

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Thanks, Bill Leys

Our Article "SB-800 and Its Effects on Decks and Their Warranties and Maintenance" is Nominated for Award

CAI's Greater Los Angeles Chapter published our article earlier this year in FOCUS, the CHapter's bi-monthly magazine.

We're pleased to say that it was nominated for "Best Article" and we will be one of the nominee's considered for this recognition at GLAC's Moulin Rouge night on Saturday February 3rd, 2003 at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City.

Thanks to those who voted us in as a nominee!

Education makes us all winners in the HOA world; vital information that improves us in our chosen field and most importantly, our clients.

Good luck to everyone who was nominated for recognition.

SB-800 & Decks has been published in Residental Contractor Magazine

Our article, SB-800 & Decks has been just published in the Summer Issue of Residential Contractor Magazine, a nationally distributed trade journal geared towards small and medium sized building contractors!

The article has been edited a bit from it's original length to reflect the audience reading the magazine-honing in on what builders and contractors need to be aware of in the deck waterproofing world.

While written for the California market, the basis for the article discusses the warranty's written by a manufacturer or installer, which except for state specific warranty laws, will generally apply in every state.

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We were pleasantly surprised to see...

That our article on SB-800 and it's effects on deck coating warranties, is the feature article for ECHOJournal's September 2007 issue.

Kudo's to Oliver Burford for the fantastic cover picture and the lead in for the article! It's so perfectly an illustration of what Associations have (and other properties too!) laying on their decks-MONEY!

Spend a little maintaining them, or spend a lot replacing them.

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