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They are working on my behalf. There were 5 firms represented yesterday. 1. a construction crew to provide labor, for digging, cutting and repairing 2. A Cement coring company 3. A Geo-Tech firm 4. An Architectual firm 5 Structural engineering frim. Under chapter 40..Attorney fees, cost of discovery including testing, moving expenses if it required when they repair a home, Rent on another home while they are repairing your home (U still have to make your mortgage payments), asundry damages, Repair, Repurchase or replacement of the home, and lost of home value due to the stigma of being a Chapter 40 home are all costs that have to be bourne by the Builder if he loses. The Builders contract excluded everything but the Repair, Replace or Repurchase of the home, this was deemed to be illegal in NV. Therefore the builder wanted to exclude attorneys fees...which would prohibit many people from taking legal action since the cost is so high. Most of the Buiilders in LV operate in this fashion for the simple reason their INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE GOING TO PICK UP THE TAB.

I believe thats what they are going to have to do with my neighbors home, lift it up off the foundation and redo/fix the foundation. Then fix the structural/damage issues.My house will be much simpler

This is the thing that I don't undeerstand. Why does my Builder persist in being so obstinate? When I first discovered the problem 2 weeks after i moved in, I wrote a letter saying essentially give me my money back and I'll give you your key back. No harm no foul. No response Then I hired an Attorney, he wrote a letter under chapter 40, stating lets fix this house and move on, at that time he would have only billed his hourly rate which would have been a realitivily small amount. I/we were completely ignored. After I/we went to court and got the Arbitration date set, my attorney again offered lets settle this thing. No response. I/ we have wanted to settle this thing with the least expenditure of money if possible. But again as my attroney said, "Nothing has turned into something"