Lawsuits still piling up against KB Home for defective construction. ST. Johns County near Jacksonville has plenty of 2018 lawsuits – not to mention another 18 pages worth. Read more…
May 312018
May 312018
I get questions, is this still happening? Yes. I get emails and complaints nationwide. These KB Home lawsuits for construction defects were filed in 2018 in Jacksonville area of Florida. This is just one county. Courts are full of recent suits against KB Home. This is what it’s like to own one of these houses. Decades of leaks and litigation. See suits, Read more…
May 262018
Dr. Stuart A. Gabriel is on the Board of KB Home. He is also the Director of the Ziman Center of Real Estate at UCLA. He personifies the disconnect between reality and what is taught in our universities. He personifies hypocrisy. The irony of preaching that housing is important to health when KB Home builds houses full of mold. Read more…
May 262018
KB Home Mortgage Lending Practices have been dubious. The DOJ sued for appraisal fraud. HUD gave them an historic fine. Do they change their mortgage company each time they get in trouble? Read more..
May 032018
The House was called a Death Trap by the family who fled. Suit alleges toxic mold in defective KB Home caused death of child. SUMMARY from Lexus Nexus, summary of wrongful death, WRONGFUL DEATH SUIT wrongful death long kb, wrongful death allows to sue,wrongful death responsewrongful death response
May 012018
Water Intrusion and mold could be deadly for this young child with a suppressed immune system in Florida. A bone marrow transplant forces her from her leaky KB Home. Tragically She died. Wrongful Death Suit Above video
Feb 062018
Did KB Home use floor tiles for the exterior of these expensive houses!? Did they have a warehouse full of discontinued tile and didn’t know what to do with them – so they stuck them on the outside of a house? We’re going to sue the subcontractors for all the defects in your new million dollar home, KB Home tells owners. That may be true. So what? KB Home is suing subcontractors in 46 Florida subdivisions. For whose benefit? My house still leaks like a sieve after being supposedly fixed. (San Jose million dollar houses built as bad as the rest of us).
Feb 042018
Million dollar houses built by KB Home already falling apart? Welcome to the club. Doesn’t matter how much you pay for a KB Home – you get a lot of problems and excuses. Plumbing problems and dangerous falling tiles in half the homes. They used flooring tiles on the exterior facade of the house! (5KPIX San Francisco).
Feb 022018
Owners in Orlando suing KB Home for defective houses after they refuse to fix them.
Feb 012018
KB Home CEO Jeff Mezger has bonus cut after making vulgar rant at comedian Kathy Lee Griffin. He’s member of the board that did it so don’t think he needs to worry. no Read more…
Dec 132016
Your dream home. KB Home uses slick marketing slogans, and fancy model homes to lure in buyers. They tell you there is quality at every step of the building process, and their good name, and valuable reputation stand behind their product. But who really builds this home, and why are there so many KB Home complaints all over the country? read more…
Dec 132016
WTSP 10 News Tampa reveals KB Home contractors supervised 50-60 homes at a time. The results? Defective, leaking, dangerous, worthless houses. Noah Pransky also asks who dropped the ball in Florida and what ever happened to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s investigation?
Dec 122016
Houses Built with “Life -Threatening Defects!” KB Home knew and sold them anyway!. Full whistle blower suit. The Good part starts around page eight. (why’d it take so long for this information to leak?) Read suit: o’neill whistle blower See yourself why there are so many KB Home complaints.Video: Whistle Blower Attorney – Life Threatening Dangerous!
Dec 112016
EERILY SIMILAR TO KB HOME CONDOS. KB HOME KNEW THEIR BALCONIES WERE DEFECTIVE WHEN THEY SOLD THEM according to a whistle blower lawsuit. They colloapsed – Just like this balcony in California where six Irish teenagers were killed and seven were critically injured. Fortunately No one died in the KB Home condos – but isn’t it just a matter of time? Are builders and government regulators playing Russian Roulette with our lives? Read more…
Dec 102016
How could the building department not notice every single hurricane strap was missing? How could the general contractor for KB Home not know? News 8 in Tampa does an excellent investigation. When every exterior wall was missing crucial fasteners – why has no one made KB Home inspect all structural walls in a 3-story condominium? watch video…
Nov 172016
Here’s what wind can do to a poorly built house in a hurricane. KB Home defects are eerily similar to the defects found in these incorrectly built homes that were devastated in Hurricane Andrew – far from highest wind. When it was discovered the builder was at fault, insurance wouldn’t pay. The same could happen in a KB Home built wrong. Financial ruin. Read more
Sep 012016
The Orlando Better Business Bureau revoked the accreditation of KB Home after giving them an “F” rating. Their nationwide accreditation was also revoked. Consumer complaints of leaking, defective, dangerous homes, led them to take this action. WFLA Tampa reports BBB WFLA report
Atlanta and Los Angeles also rated KB Home an “F”. To read more about the BBB, read more…
Jul 302016
San Antonio, Texas. Defective KB homes to be demolished as part of a $20 million dollar settlement. San Antonio Housing Authority fought with KB Home for almost a decade over houses that were poorly constructed with cheap materials. The houses failed to meet minimal standards, the property was on an old landfill, read more….
Jun 242016
California – Owners in this Lathrop community had cracks in the slabs and walls. One owner was so tired of KB Home’s unsuccessful repairs that he created several websites to showcase his San Joaquin home. He has a massive slab crack that appears to need major construction to repair. His site is gone. But see California Slab Cracks. North Carolina – This owner was so frustrated she contacted WCNC NBC in Charlotte (here). Her crack ran the length of the house and KB Home offered to caulk it (!), but then even reneged on that. CRACK LENGTH OF HOUSE
May 012016
KB Home Buyers BEWARE! We have a new report from one of our readers. Their KB Home house has NIBCO PEX Plumbing. I read a little about this product and it looks like it could be the next Chinese Drywall (also used by KB Home). This potential new plumbing nightmare is in addition to all the other plumbing problems we’ve heard of. Read more….
Feb 112016
Three Year investigation by Florida finally ends. KB Home Slammed in settlement with multi-million dollar fine.
LA Times: L.A. builder KB Home settles allegations of building defects
Jan 222016
KB HOME – more powerful than the first amendment? Suit filed in federal court to suppress homeowner’s free speech! The KB Home website is drawing too much attention to leaking houses, shoddy repairs, whistle blower suits. see video: KB Home- Free Speech Suppression read suit: KB LAWSUIT KB has charged conspiracy – “letter writing campaign!” Who knew that wasn’t legal? SURPRISE! WEBSITE IS GONE!
Public Citizen, the D.C. Consumer Advocacy Group, responded on behalf of TheKBHome.” You can’t sue someone for copyright infringement if they use your name, if the website is about you. It is a violation of free speech. ..video and more..
Oct 032014
KB Homeowner protests. They lost 8 feet of their side yard & ended up with a wood fence stuck in front of their dining room window 28 inches from the wall. KB Home sort of said, “Oops, we’ll throw you some compensation & look what you are stuck with! Not a bad ploy to get their houses sold – but that’s KB Home! KB Home comes under more fire in Roseville Herald Tribune 2015
Aug 172014
Roxanne Miller, resident of the now infamous Willowbrook Condominium in Lakewood Ranch, you know, the place with the whistle-blower and the “life threateningly dangerous defects,” is still unable to live in her gutted home after almost five years. Willowbrook resident’s living nightmare .