The Underbelly Of Georgia's Home Building Industry

The state's home building industry is a largely unregulated boom business that offers consumers few protections and little recourse when things go wrong, according to a report by Georgia's largest newspaper: "Nearly a year after the purchase, Thomas handed his builder a punch list of problems to be fixed before the warranty expired. The air conditioner wasn't cooling the upstairs. Drywall needed repair in the master bedroom. A crack in the basement floor needed to be filled.The builder refused. Suspicious, Thomas began peeling back the layers of the house. What he found, most homeowners never see."

Thanks to Erik Gabrielson