Oct
1998 Closing Costs by Brad Tyer of The Houston Press.
A detailed account of the website above. "He also possesses -- or possessed,
anyhow -- an instinct to trust, as when he told his wife, in earlier house-shopping
days, that "there's no way the third-largest homebuilder in the country
is going to screw us." He was talking then about Columbia, Maryland-based
Ryland Homes, which stands today as the nation's fifth-largest homebuilder,
and he remembers his comment with the self-effacing rue of the poker
player who couldn't identify the sucker at the table, and only much later
realized that this meant he was it. "
Oct
1998 Home Unsweeet Home by Brad Tyer The Dallas Observer
Disgruntled homeowners take to the Web to battle a giant homebuilder
over complaints of shoddy workmanship.
July 1999 Homeowners hit the roof
Town orders Ryland Homes to cease building after reviewing reports
of substandard work By MICHAEL BEACHUM Staff writer FLOWER
MOUND -- Residents of a subdivision built by Ryland Homes say their new
houses have been left with shoddy construction work the company is
choosing to ignore.
Nov 16, 1999: SPECIAL
REPORT: It could happen here. Although Hurricane Andrew exposed
the vulnerability of gable roofs, many homes outside South Florida still
don't meet wind-load standards. By COLLINS CONNER St. Petersburg Times,
published June 27, 1999. (Homebuilders referenced: Ryland Homes, US
Homes, Lennar, Holiday Builders, Hoyt Homes, Winward Homes, Pulte Homes,
Richard Van Orden Homes, Cozy Homes Inc. , Mitch Underwood Homes.)
Including sidbars or:
The
Long Lonely Fight
Insurance
companies will still pay
Repairs
can cost thousands
What
you can do about your own house
The Experts
How
the Times study was done
Letter
from Lennar Homes
Summary
of engineer, builder responses.
From Corona California. Requires a pass to read the entire article. http://www.inlandempireonline.com/archives/search.shtml
Ryland
is excised from four Corona subdivisions plagued by drainage problems
By Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise.
Minutes of
adjoured regular meeting of the city council/redevelopment agency Corona,
Califormia August 19, 1998. Planning Director Deanna Elliano presented
an updated memorandum to inform the Council of the progress made to resolve
the issues at the August 13, 1998 meeting with Ryland Homes and the Homeowners
Association (HOA). Ms. Elliano summarized the report by noting that there
are three major issues within the tracts.
Minutes of
an adjourned regular meeting of the city council (Corona Ranch Workshop)
Corona California August 3, 1998. Workshop re corona ranch / ryland
homes development staff to work with ryland homes & residents
to set a repair time frame.
Corona ranch homeowners win repair timetable about 70 people attended
a city council meeting at which the builders were lambasted
for grading and drainage problems. Published on 08/04/98 Sharon Hormell
The
Press-Enterprise CORONA Homeowners verbally battered the builder of
their new subdivision Monday at a workshop called by the Corona City Council,
but they left with a timetable for fixing flawed slopes, fencing and drainage.
(fee required)
From
the Corona City Council Minutes: Ryland homes is to deposit into an
interest bearing account for the benefit of ryland homes with the city's
finance director $50,000 for each of the 20 remaining lots as they close,
if they close, and if all the problems are resolved, ryland will receive
those funds back with the interest accrued; that a disclosure statement
is to be drafted by the city attorney and concurred with by ryland homes
by no later than 5:00 p.m., august 20, 1998, ensuring that new property
owners are not waiving their rights but acknowledging that they are informed
of the existing problems before signing their final documents on the purchase
of their home; that the city manager was directed to instruct staff to
re-evaluate the soils reports and any other reports submitted by the consulting
engineers with a report to the council setting out their findings; and
that staff is to commence the process for calling the bonds
Houses ok'd for occupancy corona city council releases paperwork
it had withheld to force the builder to fix slopes, drainage and
fences in the subdivision. Published on 08/20/98 Sharon Hormell The
Press-Enterprise CORONA Rick Brown wants to move into his new house,
but the City of Corona, until Wednesday night, was withholding the one
piece of paper that would make it possible. (fee required)
Ryland homes gets deadline for repairs Published on 03/04/99
Sharon Hormell The Press-Enterprise
CORONA When the Corona Ranch Properties Homeowners Association speaks,
the Corona City Council acts. (fee required)
City may fix tract drainage because ryland homes missed deadlines,
corona may tap a $1 million company deposit to finish the work, officials
say. Published on 04/16/99 Sharon Hormell The
Press-Enterprise CORONA, Ca. When a builder missed two deadlines to
fix drainage problems in a Corona Ranch subdivision, the City Council decided
to take over the repairs and tap the company's $1 million deposit to pay
the cost. (fee required)
BUILDER AGREES TO INSTALL DRAINS AT CORONA RANCH
Published on 10/05/2000 Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise
CORONA
By the end of this month, three drains will be installed to improve
water flow in several Corona Ranch neighborhoods that have dealt with soggy
lawns, water in gutters and slime on the streets for four years.
HOMEOWNERS AWAIT LEGAL RELIEF: A SUIT FILED BY RESIDENTS OF A CORONA
SUBDIVISION CLAIMS DRAINAGE PROBLEMS ARE RUINING THEIR HOUSES.
Published on 10/01/2000 Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise
CORONA Lori and Mark Cartwright didn't expect their brand-new home in the
Sierra del Oro community to need major repairs for many years to
come.
DEVELOPER'S NAME TAKEN DOWN : HOMEOWNERS HAD "RYLAND" EXCISED FROM
FOUR CORONA RANCH SUBDIVISIONS AFTER LIVING WITH DRAINAGE PROBLEMS IN THE
CORONA NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FOUR YEARS.
Published on 08/22/2000 Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise
CORONA A handful of people had a tough time prying the metal letters spelling
Ryland from the concrete walls. Many joked it was the best work their
developer did in their subdivisions.
SOILS EXPERT TO STUDY CITY AREA'S DRAINAGE: WATER SATURATION HAS
BEEN A SOURCE OF CORONA RANCH COMPLAINTS FOR FOUR YEARS.
Published on 07/13/2000 Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise
CORONA An independent soils engineer is expected to tour a water-soaked
neighborhood in a Corona Hills subdivision next week in search of a solution
to a drainage problem several homeowners have experienced for the past
four years.
DEPOSIT'S RELEASE LINKED TO REPAIRS: RYLAND HOMES MUST ADDRESS A
LIST OF HOMEOWNER ISSUES BEFORE CORONA WILL RETURN MORE THAN $5 MILLION.
Published on 06/15/2000 Adriana Chavira The Press-Enterprise
CORONA Homeowners of Corona Ranch are still waiting for the developer to
finish the job, a year after repairs were last made to fix water-drainage
problems and oversaturated slopes in their subdivision.
OFFICIALS SUGGEST LAWSUIT: COUNCIL MEMBERS TELL HOMEOWNERS THAT SUING
CORONA MAY BE THE WAY TO GET THEIR TRACT'S DEVELOPER TO SOLVE DRAINAGE
PROBLEMS.
Published on 02/17/2000 Claire Vitucci The Press-Enterprise CORONA
Residents of the Corona Ranch development should sue Corona, City Council
members said Wednesday night.
UNHAPPY RESIDENTS TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL: CORONA BUYERS WANT LAND DEFECTS
FIXED
Published on 02/16/2000 Claire Vitucci The Press-Enterprise CORONA
Corona Ranch residents say they plan to visit tonight's City Council meeting
en masse to voice their concerns that five years of water-drainage problems
have yet to be fixed by the builder of their housing tract.
Dec 8 2000
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