Dual Layer Dvd: Custom Home Builders

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Custom Home Builders

Choosing a home builder can be daunting. Within the custom home industry, there are a wide variety of people who call themselves custom home builders. From the “Chuck in a truck” – essentially a person with a truck and a business card – to those who have years of experience, all have the right to call themselves custom home builders according to Texas law. The Texas Residential Construction Commission (TRCC) – created for the purpose of protecting consumers – was discovered to be functioning “as a homebuilder protection agency” – and then was subsequently shut down in September 2010. There is currently no formal governing body over residential construction in Texas. Essentially, it’s caveat emptor or ‘buyer beware’.
That means, in effect, that there is no licensing or ‘watchdog agency’ to which consumers can turn if building the home of their dreams turns into a nightmare. This is how the consumer can end up with a situation similar to what Sandra Bullock experienced in 2004 (http://www.people.com/). One way to help avoid such a potentially disastrous situation is to ask the following key questions of any builder you are interviewing: