Browse Forums General Discussion Re: New Home Owner Experience - not good 57Jun 17, 2006 10:50 pm Seriously looking at Kit Home Suppliers, most offer attractive designs but unless the right questions asked; then most perceive you as nothing but nuissance. Re: New Home Owner Experience - not good 60Jun 20, 2006 7:51 am Very sorry to hear that your experience has been difficult. The WA Government prides themselves on operating a 'state of the art' consumer protection regime to avoid such incidents but I have always been skeptical of their claims and tend to associate them with the sort of spin doctoring that all Governments participate in these days.
Have you contacted the Dept of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP)? If not, call them on 1300 304 054 and get them involved to sort out the builder if they are being recalcitrant. Very interested to know how you go and whether or not they simply push you into a private litigation. When you think about it, if the Government is licensing builders then they have to take some responsibility for making the bad ones finish the job for the agreed price. If the builder cannot operate under those simple contractual obligations then they should be pushed out of the industry by the regulator. Unfortunately the attitude of Government is that you (the user) has to pay via private litigation, to do what is essentially their responsibility in the first place. Please give it the DOCEP option a go, but if you already have and failed then please let us know. Sorry but you have a crap builder. Probably too late now. For our last build I only spoke to builders who would allow me easy access (at no cost). I used my own sparky… 10 9820 I apologise for any confusion, but your understanding is correct. We approached our situation differently based on advice from… 11 53211 Hi All, I have been dealing with icare for insurance in completing our house after our original builder went bust. We have gotten to tender stage and one of the companies… 0 20792 |