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I’d think the average time owning a DR Horton home is 5 years or less so who cares. If you’re looking for your lifetime ownership in a mass produced house, you deserve what you get.

I could not disagree more. They are in the same industry as home builders who do not do these things...the authority having jurisdiction should enforce the codes equally. they do not, it is not even close. DR Horton should be banned from doing business ANYWHERE...most states will not allow licensing to remain in effect when you have 1/10th the complaints that DR Horton gets...yet for some reason they are allowed to build these shitty arse houses and consumers, no knowing any better, continue to buy them. I take your point but it impacts the entire housing market, housing prices and values are based on location and to a lesser degree levels of finish, not quality of workmanship, especially in fundamental phases like foundations and framing.

This is a good example of why licensing by the state and inspection by local authorities is a silly notion. First off the state is not qualified to say who is and who isn't qualified...if you doubt this watch the way people drive and consider that the state said they were qualified. The same is true of local inspections....they are not liable for anything they miss, what is the point? The point is revenue....and jobs....it is not to protect the consumer from shoddy work or even dangerous work...and it leads to all manner of corruption and other ill shite that impacts everyone, not just current buyers.

I was an electrical contractor for years and my employees were union. Most of the inspectors in Georgia were once union electricians, many still are. They are almost universally far more critical of the work done by union electricians because, and I have been told this many, many, many times by multiple inspectors...that union electricians know better than to do work that way. It is a silly idea for the state to license any profession and a silly idea for local authorities to inspect anything....they are not qualified and have no skin in the game.