The kitchen sink fell out of my KB Home last night! That never happened before! Sure the roof leaked from day one, and the walls leaked, the plumbing burst inside the walls, but this was a first. Hey if you buy a KB Home look under the counters for support & hardware to brace your sink!
Florida Attorney General Investigates KB Home for deceptive practices. State Rep.Mayfield talks as Complaints against KB Home continue to mount
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED! Fraud, Negligence alleged. I. Rescission – II. Breach of Contract – III. Fraud in Inducement – IV. Negligence – V. Breach of Expressed Warranty – VI. Breach of Implied Warranty Habitability – VII Code Violation. (so far 34 separate suits counted) MC_Docket
Hostile Work Environment. Retaliation. Disparate Treatment. Charges may stand against KB Home the U.S. District Court in Texas has ruled. In this discrimination lawsuit, African American sales personnel say they had to work twice as hard as white counterparts and still made less money. “Plaintiffs allege that KB Home employees told them they were assigned to the lower income communities because they “did not fit the demographic’” of the higher income communities. kbhomediscriminationsuit
KB Home is on a roll – building in over forty locations in Florida. Meanwhile, houses continue to leak and re-leak all over the state. Florida consumers seem to be on their own, holding the bag for defective structures, loss of value, stigma. It’s a nightmare of epic proportions. State Agencies keep passing the buck. KB Homes Suck? I think it’s the other way around – KB Home has told the consumer to Suck Some Very Sour Lemons . read more…
2 Peas in a Pod! Is this why the Attorney General’s investigation of KB Home just drags on and on and on? Attorney General (Pay for Play Pam as she’s been called) florida-home-builders-endorse-pam-bondi-for-attorney-general-pam-bondi-for-attorney-general for re-election. pam-bondi-endorsed-by-latin-builders-association. pam-bondi-builder-donations Rick Scott Endorsed by the Florida Commercial Contractors.
Still leaking and no end in sight with this KB Home Willowbrook Condo owner. KB Home settlement with attorney general not helping many
Shh! Too late! Someone has let the cat out of the bag and lawsuits are springing up all over the place. Florida and other states have “Right to Cure Laws” that force buyers into arbitration. But homeowners have sued for fraud & inducement to get around this and whistle blowers are telling all .read more
DBPR – SEES NO EVIL? The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is the state licensing agency for the construction industry. With hundreds of complaints, two whistle blowers, missing hurricane straps, and life threatening dangerous defects , the DBPR still can’t find “probable cause” to take action against KB Home! read more..
U.S. CONGRESSMAN, BILL POSEY, contacted the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice on behalf of a KB Home owner. The DOJ sent the complaint to the Miami office of the FBI. Anyone with complaints might want to forward their issues to the Miami Division of the FBI and reference this letter. The FBI will not confirm an investigation. Congressman Posey to DOJ to FBI
No Warranty for You! KB Home refusing to honor warranties on houses that foreclosed! Catch 22! There were a lot of foreclosures! Wonder why? Not honoring warranties is something KB Home has a history of with the FTC. see video and more…
Wouldn’t you know it? KB Home thought to exclude STIGMA from their warranty! Guess you think of things like that after you built a neighborhood on a bomb site and forgot to tell the owners! Stigma is still a problem in many KB Home neighborhoods. It is devastating. read more..
Could this happen to you? Plunging values, leaking houses, abandoned homes, impossible to sell or refinance, cancelled insurance, ruined credit, nightmares, financial disaster…read more
“Production” Building at the lowest bid is bound to result in problems. It came back to bite KB Homes. Builder Magazine (06/28/2013) looks at KB Home’s building practices that led to thousands of leaking and defective homes in Florida and nationwide. Builder Magazine: Construction Defects Rob KB Home of Profit & another story in as-construction-accelerates-will-defects-follow
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The Workers Defense Project had to hold a protest for a group of construction workers who labored on several of KB Home’s premier properties in South Austin….Wage theft for low-wage workers has a profound impact on working families… KB Home Refuses to Pay Low Wage Workers and here kb home workers await payday
KB Home sues anyone who maligns their good reputation. These two towns say they are more like notorious. Wolf at the Door? KB Home coming to Montgomery County – “Your board will have to ask itself what will happen if you let a builder with a known bad reputation build in your county.” Montgomery Sentinel, 2006, KB Home faces fight over large housing project in Scotts Valley – 2006 Valley Business Journal – “So strong is Mayor Agular’s aversion to KB…” I am very distraught that they have come back to us. …when we get down to K & B, says Councilman Barrett. “Their reputation precedes them and we are not real happy with their reputation. They built homes in Scotts Valley before, and we had a ton of problems with them. I can’t say if they’ve changed their ways, but it definitely makes us wary.
Nine Years of Repairs haven’t fixed this nightmare KB Home in Mulberry. Florida! The same has happened on the other coast, in Vero Beach. A small company would be run out of town by now. WTSP Ten News, Tampa……READ MORE & SEE VIDEO
Forbes Magazine did a survey of the top corporate hate websites, and number one was KB Homes Sucks. That name is gone. It was owned by KB Home along with many others. The website, TheKBHome once compiled this list of domains owned by KBHome. Today, they show the owner as an internet registrant company. Did KB Home wise up and stop making it easy to see what they were buying? Names like dontbuyakbhome, avoidkbhome, kblawsuit, kbclassactionlawsuit. All I know is you can’t own them. They are taken. kbhome-domains
BUYER BEWARE OF FLORIDA! Who Wins in the attorney general settlement with KB Home? You guessed it. The attorney general did not suspend time (toll) so warranties ran out, warranties that were not honored. The only thing the OAG of Florida did not give away to KB Home was a non-disparagement clause. ag settlement inadequate 2