Strottman Real Estate

06/20/2026

Caveat Emptor = Let the buyer beware.

Blake and Beth Horio bought a home in 2022 in a Henderson, Nev., community thinking it would be an ideal place to retire. But soon, cracks began spreading across the ceilings. Their sliding glass doors wouldn’t open. Their foundation sank several inches, leaving a gap underneath the house.

When an engineer who examined the home dropped a marble on the kitchen floor, it sped off into the corner. “Your home is sinking,” he told them.

Now, the Horios are involved in a legal dispute with the home’s builder. The couple said the company responded to their complaints, but performed only cosmetic repairs of a ceiling crack and ultimately failed to address the underlying soil issue.

“We worked hard to get here and we can’t enjoy our home,” said Beth Horio. “I can’t even have coffee outside. I can’t get outside.”

The legal liabilities of some of America’s biggest home builders, including D.R. Horton and Lennar, have surged in recent years as buyers increasingly sue for damages from alleged construction defects.

Homeowners say the legal claims are the result of builders constructing shoddier, error-ridden homes. They allege that builders are using cheaper materials, cutting corners and hiring unqualified and undersupervised subcontractors.

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06/13/2026

❤️Where you Live🖤‼️

05/12/2026

Of course you take this approach with < 30 days supply. Suitable saturation/exposure and clearly competition drives price. Simple supply & demand. Larger audience the better.

05/12/2026

Fascinating isn't it. At least you're not alongside E.T. trying to find a home in 1982. 🥀🚴ET☎️🏡🌕

05/07/2026

05/02/2026

If your agent is not advising you to place home on market in "coming soon" prior to ACTIVE status with less than 30 days supply, you need to find another agent.

If they tell you "WOW, I found you a buyer already" in their office vs putting on the market, they are likely breaching fiduciary responsibility & what's best for you.

04/15/2026

Fly Eagles Fly‼️

04/15/2026

We see often. Hire help with a trained eyes and combined 48 yrs experience in Greater Cincinnati. Pretty significant investment.

Builders are using cheaper materials and rejiggering designs as part of an effort to offer more affordable homes when buyers are concerned about high prices, elevated mortgage rates and an uncertain economy.

Particle-board cabinets are in. Hardwood is out. Countertops are becoming thinner. Walls now feature smaller and fewer windows. An automatic garage opener is sometimes a frivolous luxury.

Builders say this makes homeownership more attainable, especially for cash-strapped first-time buyers. The lower-cost materials, they say, are still solid and durable.

For example, builders may give up sound protection by hanging lower-tier doors with hollow cores. “It’s effectively reducing cost where the customer doesn’t see,” said Bill Christensen, CEO of door and window manufacturer Jeld-Wen.

But first-time home buyers like Ana Wilkinson wouldn't even consider new construction after what she has seen.

“It’s just kind of that feeling that we get [that] things aren’t built as well as they used to be,” she said.

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