05-14-2005, 03:16 PM
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Location: Shasta Lake,
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Steve,
Greed and the lack of accepting responsibility are going to kill this country.
Along the lines of your sewer story. A few years ago in Anderson which is about 15 miles South of here, they built a new bunch of track homes. Sold them for 3 times what they were worth. One of the people that I knew who worked in Redding bought one and was really happy with his nice big fireplace. The 3rd time they built a fire in it, the whole thing fell through the floor and the chimney came through the roof. They called the insurance agent who sent an investigator and the city had law suites for years. When they built the homes, they not only never reinforced under the darn fireplaces, but built them right on plywood colored to loook like concrete. The city had inspected all of them and signed off on them. I think there were around 20 homes in that bunch and they all had to be torn down and the money refunded to the people that bought them. Of course the contractor was long gone and has never been heard of since.
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