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Hey - don't laugh - I framed houses for a few years, years ago; then spec-built a bunch; and then sold real estate and did some small land development projects ... and back in the late eighties there were a couple newly arrived East Indian (so called) 'builders' who didn't have a clue what they were doing, and they built houses that looked much like that there shed. For example, a 10 x 10' bedroom in one of their houses would have been four to five inches out of square ...
You can imagine the fun their finishers had, trying to get shit to line up. But ... the building department passed them (I guess they were, more or less, still 'to code' - just way out of whack) ... and ... people actually bought them.
I felt really bad, that people who hadn't a clue bought houses like that from realtors who likely hadn't a clue; and that there weren't any regulations as to who could or could not, pick up a phone and start building spec homes as a general contractor.
And is it any wonder, then, that so many multi-family buildings developed leaky-condo syndromes?
You can imagine the fun their finishers had, trying to get shit to line up. But ... the building department passed them (I guess they were, more or less, still 'to code' - just way out of whack) ... and ... people actually bought them.
I felt really bad, that people who hadn't a clue bought houses like that from realtors who likely hadn't a clue; and that there weren't any regulations as to who could or could not, pick up a phone and start building spec homes as a general contractor.
And is it any wonder, then, that so many multi-family buildings developed leaky-condo syndromes?