🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't have any direct info for you.  I was going to suggest that
you contact the Contractors State License Board, 100 Paseo De San
Antonio, SJ, 277-1244.  This is the state agency that monitors the
quality of individual building contractors.  They might be able to
refer you to another state agency that keeps track of new home
builders in the state.

You might want to contact Citation Homes directly and ask them in
which cities they have recently built homes.  Then contact the
building departments and/or consumer protection agencies of those
cities/counties to see if any complaints have been lodged against
this builder.

You cannot be too careful about buying a home, and especially a new
home.  It seems that problems with badly-constructed new homes are
on the rise.  At least with a pre-owned home, the previous owners
are required by law to disclose all defects and problem areas that
might affect your decision to buy.  With a new home, the builder
doesn't have to disclose anything because, well, the assumption is
that it's a new home with no defects!  :-)  (Home warranties are
nice, but if a new home isn't constructed properly, who wants to
spend their time waiting for repair people, hassling with the
builder and/or the warranty company, etc.)

You may think it strange, but I'd strongly suggest that you hire a
home inspector to do a full inspection of the new house that you
want to buy before you close escrow on the house.  You can't
believe how easy it is to mis-wire an electrical outlet (or leave
out the grounding wire completely!), plumb a faucet incorrectly so
that the hot water is controlled by the wrong handle or wrong side
of the handle, sloping floors and/or cracking walls/ceilings (due
to settling), condensation in double-pane windows, etc.  And city
permit departments DO inspect new homes, but not every single one
of them and not all features of them.  You really need to hire your
own inspector.


Mark
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