The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1742 - New Build NIGHTMARE？ The Scheme That Is Ripping Off Millions Of Americans

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00:00:30.000 It's not often that I do monologues where I talk about consumer protection issues

00:00:34.000 or how to avoid getting scammed or anything like that.

00:00:36.000 But when it comes to buying homes,

00:00:38.000 so many people are now getting ripped off in ways that are, frankly,

00:00:42.000 hard to comprehend in some cases.

00:00:44.000 That is clearly time for a deep dive on that topic.

00:00:47.000 And we'll start with the numbers.

00:00:49.000 Now, ordinarily, hearing the news that many more single-family homes

00:00:53.000 are being built in the United States would suggest a good sign for the economy

00:00:57.000 and for young people, many of whom are struggling right now, to afford a starter home.

00:01:01.000 And indeed, over the past few years, the number of new construction single-family homes has increased,

00:01:07.000 particularly in the West and in the South.

00:01:09.000 In fact, as the COVID lockdowns ended, there were roughly 1.5 million homes under construction,

00:01:15.000 which was the highest number since the 1970s.

00:01:17.000 These new homes are a lifeline in the market because many existing homeowners

00:01:22.000 who locked in their rock-bottom interest rates on their mortgages a few years ago are reluctant to sell.

00:01:28.000 But there's a very real risk to buying a new home in this market.

00:01:33.000 All over the country, major homebuilders are currently facing class-action lawsuits

00:01:38.000 alleging shoddy construction and fraud.

00:01:40.000 They're building homes too quickly with low-quality materials, and they're selling them to inexperienced buyers

00:01:48.000 who more often than not are relying on low-quality, outdated inspections.

00:01:52.000 And then those buyers are discovering that under the terms of the contract they signed, they don't have much recourse.

00:01:58.000 That's why there's now an entire genre of social media video where experienced inspectors go into homes

00:02:04.000 and identify serious flaws that should have been fixed or at least disclosed to buyers before they purchased the home.

00:02:12.000 But put another way, we've come a very long way from the days of Hammurabi's code, 0.92

00:02:18.000 which called for builders to be put to death if they did a poor job constructing a home.

00:02:24.000 And before we get into the wave of lawsuits that have been filed by homeowners,

00:02:28.000 it's worth taking a look at some of those videos to give you an idea of the extent of the problem

00:02:32.000 and to give you a sense of what to look for if you're in the market for a home at the moment yourself.

00:02:38.000 At another final inspection, which means the house should pretty much be done, ready to go.

00:02:45.000 So the air conditioners aren't going to work if they're not powered.

00:02:51.000 All right, 2025 new-built construction. This is a final inspection. Let's go check it out.

00:02:56.000 Downspouts on the second-story sidewall are loose and not secured to the brick.

00:03:01.000 Missing felt paper on top of the roof sheathing.

00:03:07.000 Patio roof is missing counter flashing details.

00:03:11.000 Here's what the pressure washing crew did inside the garage. 1.00

00:03:15.000 No need to test that for moisture.

00:03:17.000 Downspout elbow is bent. And here, they forgot to install the downspout.

00:03:23.000 Here's your new roof.

00:03:25.000 So this sweep hole cover is good. Now it's clogged. Now it's missing.

00:03:45.000 So this is D.L. Horton main water supply to the house.

00:03:49.000 And they're called flimmies, that is.

00:03:51.000 The thing just came apart like that. And the water just coming out.

00:03:55.000 I had to turn the main water supply off to fix it.

00:03:57.000 Now people regularly buy items that cost around $1,000, like, you know, TVs, computers, and so on, which have much higher quality control than $500,000 homes.

00:04:11.000 It defies common sense for the biggest purchase of your life to be so unreliable and have so many issues.

00:04:19.000 And that works to the advantage of the builders.

00:04:21.000 Most buyers simply can't imagine being defrauded on such a massive purchase.

00:04:26.000 And that's especially true for new construction homes.

00:04:30.000 But it's often the case that, especially over the last five years or so, new homes are in worse condition than existing homes.

00:04:37.000 Watch.

00:04:38.000 Well, if you're considering buying a newly built house, you may say, I don't need an inspection.

00:04:43.000 It's brand new. What could be wrong?

00:04:46.000 That's not necessarily the case because some new homes have a lot of hidden problems.

00:04:51.000 Scratches here, scratches here, scratches all back here.

00:04:54.000 Edward Aguirre says he should be pretty excited about his brand new home that was recently built.

00:04:59.000 But Edward says he's more frustrated than excited.

00:05:03.000 I'm wondering, is my house the only house like that on this block?

00:05:07.000 Or has every house been this way and nobody's actually said or done anything about it?

00:05:11.000 Edward says his home builder claims the home is ready to move in.

00:05:15.000 But this new home buyer says for the money he paid, there are way too many things that need to be fixed before moving in.

00:05:22.000 For example, he says his front window was installed crooked, making it almost impossible to be opened or closed.

00:05:29.000 How are you going?

00:05:30.000 Oh, yeah, this is really tough.

00:05:32.000 That should not be that way.

00:05:35.000 Oh.

00:05:36.000 In about 2021, once the market started to get shut down, we've noticed a huge decrease in just workmanship.

00:05:43.000 Cy Porter is a home inspector and tells On Your Side that he finds more red flags in newly built homes than in older homes that are for sale.

00:05:52.000 One reason? He says new homes are being built at lightning speed across the valley and attention to small details diminish greatly.

00:06:00.000 The builder forgot to finish hooking up the gas water heater vent, which means for about a year, this water heater has been spitting carbon monoxide inside this home.

00:06:09.000 One of the problems here is that buyers assume that if the builder does something wrong, they'll have some kind of recourse.

00:06:17.000 And by the same token, buyers often assume that sellers, regardless of what kind of home they're selling, are bound by all kinds of warranties that they have to honor.

00:06:26.000 So buyers will sign a purchase agreement without reading the fine print.

00:06:32.000 That's the first major mistake you can make in the home buying process.

00:06:35.000 It's tempting to believe that because you haven't actually closed on the house yet, there isn't much risk in signing a purchase agreement.

00:06:43.000 After all, if an inspection uncovers an undisclosed issue before closing, you don't have to follow through on the deal.

00:06:48.000 But that's not necessarily true.

00:06:50.000 Builders write contracts to give themselves enormous leverage throughout the entire process.

00:06:55.000 And usually realtors won't alert buyers to the risk because they just want the sale to go through.

00:07:02.000 Let's take a look at what happened to this woman in Tampa Bay who badly misunderstood the purchase agreement that she signed with DR Horton, which is the single largest home builder in the United States.

00:07:14.000 Watch.

00:07:15.000 Tonight, a single mom paid more than a half a million dollars in May for a new construction home in Waimama, 0.94

00:07:21.000 where she planned to live with three children and her father, who's a disabled veteran.

00:07:26.000 But multiple construction problems have prevented the family from moving in,

00:07:29.000 and the owner tells I-Team investigator Adam Walzer the builder has yet to pay thousands of dollars of her out-of-pocket expenses.

00:07:36.000 So this is um sweet um.

00:07:43.000 This is the mess.

00:07:44.000 This is what Jessica Perez's new DR Horton built home looked like last Friday, nearly three months after she bought it.

00:07:52.000 It didn't look much better on the day she closed.

00:07:55.000 This house should have never closed in this condition.

00:07:58.000 Blue tape shows problems in nearly every room.

00:08:01.000 Lots of tape around here, huh?

00:08:02.000 Yes.

00:08:03.000 Some issues were cosmetic.

00:08:05.000 What's that?

00:08:06.000 I've not seen that in a finished house.

00:08:08.000 Right.

00:08:09.000 These are for the cameras outside.

00:08:11.000 A pipe to an outside faucet protrudes from stucco.

00:08:14.000 But the major issues are inside.

00:08:17.000 Ex's Mart where floors squeak.

00:08:19.000 Because I mean, they're not going to give you a brand new house with the ceiling missing.

00:08:24.000 When Jessica asked her realtor to delay the closing, she says he told her that the DR Horton sales rep said that would result in consequences.

00:08:33.000 If she doesn't close today, we're not going to pay her rate lock any further.

00:08:37.000 She's going to have to pay us $250 a day until she closes. 1.00

00:08:42.000 And that's if we don't terminate the contract and then she's out her money that she put down on the house. 1.00

00:08:48.000 So Perez closed on the $541,000 house and began paying her mortgage and utilities, but never moved in.

00:08:55.000 Now, the reason they're able to threaten this woman with daily fines is that in the eyes of the builder, they fulfill their end of the deal. 0.56

00:09:03.000 Under the law and under the terms of the purchase agreement, they don't actually have to provide a high quality home.

00:09:10.000 They merely have to substantially fulfill, quote unquote, their obligations.

00:09:17.000 That's a very loose standard to say the least, and the contracts are written to favor the builder.

00:09:22.000 The goal of the contract is to limit the potential objections a buyer can raise.

00:09:27.000 And if the buyer doesn't insist on changes to the contract, then they're bound by it.

00:09:32.000 They have no choice but to close on the home.

00:09:35.000 The outlet Hunter Brook Media, which focuses on investigative journalism, has cataloged numerous examples of builders and sellers using tactics like this.

00:09:45.000 They reported that one woman named Nesha Gee signed a purchase agreement with a Lenar for a home in Athens, Alabama.

00:09:53.000 And when an inspector found defects in the house, she backed out of the deal and Lenar kept her $7,500 deposit.

00:10:01.000 And in another case, D.R. Horton told a couple that they would lose their $25,000 down payment if they backed out of the deal, even though they found mold in the floor and the walls.

00:10:11.000 And they only received the $25,000 back when they agreed to buy another home built by D.R. Horton.

00:10:17.000 Quote, according to multiple Lenar and D.R. Horton contracts, if the buyer delays or backs out of the deal for any reason,

00:10:24.000 even for known construction defects like foundation cracks, grading problems or biological contaminants like mold,

00:10:32.000 they trigger an automatic default, giving the seller the right to claim the deposit money as liquidated damages and amounts up to 15% of the value of the home.

00:10:42.000 Lenar's contract even state that the builder's failure to obtain a certificate of occupancy in time cannot be grounds for delaying closing.

00:10:51.000 In many states, the builders require buyers to waive pre-existing legal rights, such as implied warranties, in favor of the company's limited warranty.

00:10:58.000 The builder's limited warranties often explicitly lack basic guarantees otherwise available to purchasers under the law, likely the home will be habitable.

00:11:06.000 Nor do the builders' warranties usually cover issues related to drainage, grading, erosion in soil or the presence of biological contaminants like mold,

00:11:16.000 even though those are common defects caused by workmanship deficiencies that sometimes make homes uninhabitable.

00:11:23.000 Yes, so you heard that correctly.

00:11:26.000 In many states, under the contractual terms they draft in their purchase agreements,

00:11:32.000 builders can force you to close on a home that you can't actually inhabit.

00:11:37.000 So, if you don't read the fine print and demand that they strike that clause from the contract,

00:11:43.000 then you're legally bound to buy a home that may be so dangerous that you cannot even go inside of it.

00:11:48.000 Let's put two examples of these contracts on the screen right now.

00:11:52.000 Again, these were first reported by Hunterbrook.

00:11:54.000 The first waiver is contained in a 2024 purchase agreement drafted by Lenar.

00:12:00.000 It reads, quote, except as prohibited by laws of the state in which the home is located,

00:12:05.000 all other warranties express or implied but not limited to any implied warranty of habitability are hereby expressly disclaimed and waived.

00:12:16.000 The second waiver is from D.R. Horton's standard purchase agreement.

00:12:19.000 You can see it on the screen.

00:12:20.000 It's the same basic idea.

00:12:22.000 There are only a handful of states that prevent builders from including these provisions,

00:12:27.000 states like Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.

00:12:31.000 But even those states allow the builders to heavily manipulate contracts to their advantage.

00:12:36.000 For example, this is a D.R. Horton purchase agreement from Maryland.

00:12:41.000 In other words, if a defect isn't written down on a list during the pre-closing walkthrough,

00:12:54.000 then they don't have to fix it, regardless of what the realtor or the salesman claims.

00:12:59.000 They can make all kinds of oral promises to solve whatever problem you might identify,

00:13:04.000 but they don't have to honor any of those promises.

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00:15:06.000 Now, the other issue is that very often, buyers allow government workers to handle the inspections,

00:15:12.000 and that presents a host of problems.

00:15:14.000 This is again from Hunterbrook.

00:15:16.000 Quote, Robert Knowles, president and founder of the National Association of Homeowners

00:15:20.000 and a licensed professional engineer who said he has inspected thousands of new builds,

00:15:24.000 estimated 100% of all new builds probably have multiple code violations.

00:15:29.000 According to Knowles, county or municipal inspectors often have an overwhelming number of houses to inspect,

00:15:35.000 sometimes up to 80 a day, and may prioritize quick pass inspections over thorough checks,

00:15:41.000 as flagging failures requires significantly more time and paperwork.

00:15:44.000 They miss dozens and dozens of code violations in all the homes I look at, Knowles told Hunterbrook.

00:15:49.000 One Arizona-based third-party inspector, who asked to be anonymous because he sometimes works for national builders,

00:15:55.000 said he'd seen county inspectors who didn't even get out of the car before signing off on a job.

00:16:01.000 A legal loophole in states like Florida and Texas, states where D.R. Horton and Lahr sold most of their homes in recent years,

00:16:07.000 even allows builders to hire their own inspection companies to sign off on building code compliance.

00:16:13.000 Now, in practice, this often means that buyers are on the hook for very expensive repairs down the line.

00:16:20.000 Take the issue of soil compaction, for example.

00:16:23.000 In order to make sure that the ground can sustain the construction of a house and that the foundation can hold,

00:16:29.000 it's important to ensure a certain soil compaction rate before building begins.

00:16:34.000 Otherwise, walls can crack, doors can stick, and a host of other problems, of course, can occur.

00:16:41.000 According to Hunterbrook, in one subdivision in Ocean Breeze, Florida,

00:16:44.000 only 14 out of the 143 homes achieved the necessary 98% soil compaction rate in order for construction to be considered safe and reliable.

00:16:55.000 But the private inspector, or the county inspector, signed off on all the homes.

00:17:01.000 In South Carolina, as part of one major new lawsuit against D.R. Horton,

00:17:06.000 it was revealed that government inspectors missed hundreds of code violations.

00:17:11.000 Watch.

00:17:12.000 Homeowners in Berkeley and Dorchester County say their new homes, built by D.R. Horton, are practically falling apart,

00:17:19.000 despite county inspectors signing off on them months prior to moving in.

00:17:23.000 D.R. Horton is a home construction company that builds new housing developments throughout the Lowcountry.

00:17:28.000 As demand for more subdivisions continues to grow, dozens of homeowners say they're finding problems with their homes.

00:17:35.000 I'll never buy another D.R. Horton home again.

00:17:37.000 Just trying to do too much too fast, quality was horrendous.

00:17:40.000 Dave Preston and his wife spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

00:17:44.000 and moved into the French Quarter Creek neighborhood in Huger in April of 2022.

00:17:49.000 Quickly after moving in, they say problems arose.

00:17:53.000 They say the septic system in their home and in every house on their side of the neighborhood

00:17:58.000 backed up needing a full septic overhaul within months of moving in.

00:18:03.000 Things weren't working right.

00:18:05.000 Preston says issues continued to surface in his home,

00:18:08.000 so he contacted one longtime Lowcountry inspector, Robert Knowles, in March of 2023.

00:18:14.000 A 166-page inspection report from Knowles noted problems in virtually every single part of the home.

00:18:22.000 There are so many things from the rafters in your attic not being correct.

00:18:27.000 Scott Mulway and Mike Barbero live in the same Somerville neighborhood with D.R. Horton homes

00:18:32.000 that were built in 2019.

00:18:34.000 They say the biggest problem in their development is the roofs.

00:18:38.000 When they were actually putting in the shingles themselves,

00:18:41.000 they weren't using the correct amount of nails. 0.77

00:18:44.000 They weren't using the correct amount of felt.

00:18:46.000 Mulway's roof has buckled three times, the first time only two months after they moved in.

00:18:51.000 A winter storm last January removed 70 of Mulway's shingles and damaged the inside of their home,

00:18:57.000 coming with a whopping $17,000 price tag.

00:19:01.000 They don't build these homes in months or years anymore.

00:19:05.000 They build them in weeks, and it's just crazy how quick they pop up.

00:19:08.000 Despite the reported structural problems, both homes were approved by a Dorchester County inspector in 2019.

00:19:15.000 It's not operating like a new something should operate.

00:19:19.000 Multiple lawsuits against D.R. Horton have been filed in counties throughout the state,

00:19:23.000 with many of those being in Berkeley County.

00:19:26.000 Everything is on the homeowner, and they don't know what all the shoddy work does behind the scenes.

00:19:31.000 Lawsuits filed by homeowners against the company include allegations of improperly installed roofs

00:19:36.000 and persistent drainage problems, resulting in consequential damage to the houses.

00:19:45.000 Part of the problem of filing lawsuits is that in many of these purchase agreements,

00:19:49.000 buyers waive their right to a trial by jury.

00:19:51.000 Instead, they go to arbitration, an arrangement that usually benefits the established corporation

00:19:57.000 because they often have connections with arbitrators.

00:20:01.000 Meanwhile, as they make promises to buyers, companies like D.R. Horton tell investors that they will be,

00:20:06.000 quote, replacing certain high-quality fixtures and finishes with less expensive yet still high-quality fixtures and finishes.

00:20:13.000 So they're talking out of both sides of their mouth.

00:20:16.000 Presumably, they're also employing a lot of illegal aliens to save on cost, 0.79

00:20:20.000 and we can make that assumption because activists and unions are demanding that D.R. Horton block ICE access to their building sites.

00:20:28.000 I wonder why that is. Watch.

00:20:31.000 Yes, we're at the regional office of D.R. Horton, which is a national developer,

00:20:35.000 the largest single-family home developer in the nation.

00:20:38.000 And we're here today for two simple demands that D.R. Horton publicly announced

00:20:44.000 that they will not allow ICE onto their work sites without a signed and valid judicial warrant,

00:20:49.000 and that they will make a public announcement that they denounce the way that ICE has been harassing,

00:20:54.000 assaulting, abducting, construction workers, regardless of status, and that ICE get out of Minnesota.

00:21:01.000 Porque se han dado muchos casos.

00:21:03.000 Emigración ha llegado en los centros de trabajo como ser construcciones,

00:21:08.000 y entonces ahí están atacando más a los trabajadores, y por ese motivo nosotros no estamos trabajando.

00:21:14.000 Ok, so he's saying that he was working, he works for a siding company, and they do really good work,

00:21:20.000 and this is the fourth week of them being on a pause from working because his boss decided that it was safer to not work right now

00:21:27.000 because of the high activity of ICE and people being taken while they're just trying to work.

00:21:32.000 Hey man!

00:21:33.000 So he's in his fourth week of not working.

00:21:34.000 Hey man!

00:21:35.000 We are never going to learn that lesson!

00:21:36.000 We are never going to learn that lesson!

00:21:37.000 No work, no pay.

00:21:38.000 We are never going to do this.

00:21:39.000 Y no estás ganando nada entonces, no? 0.87

00:21:41.000 Eh, ahorita ya con esta semana que tenemos, tenemos cuatro semanas que no hemos trabajado.

00:21:47.000 Absolutamente no hemos recibido ni un tan solo dólar.

00:21:50.000 So yeah, it's been four weeks now of not making any money, not even one dollar.

00:21:55.000 This is how companies like D.R. Horton operate.

00:21:57.000 They use cheaper materials, cheaper workers, promise a cheaper product to investors,

00:22:02.000 even as they tell home buyers that they're getting a quality home.

00:22:06.000 It's a shell game, and as they play it, the lawsuits continue to pile up.

00:22:12.000 This one's from Houston, watch.

00:22:15.000 You own this house outright, you paid cash, but yet you're afraid to walk in there.

00:22:19.000 Correct.

00:22:20.000 Why is that?

00:22:21.000 Because it's full of mold and it made me sick.

00:22:24.000 You pay a monthly mortgage for this house?

00:22:26.000 I do, yeah.

00:22:27.000 But you don't live at the house?

00:22:28.000 No, we don't.

00:22:29.000 You're afraid to walk in that house?

00:22:31.000 Yes, we are.

00:22:32.000 Why?

00:22:33.000 Well, number one, I'm seven months pregnant, and we have mold contamination in our home.

00:22:38.000 This was supposed to be where Courtney Colvolt lived after retirement.

00:22:42.000 Do you want to live in this house?

00:22:44.000 Absolutely not.

00:22:45.000 I can't even imagine it.

00:22:46.000 It's so stressful to even be here.

00:22:48.000 This was kind of your dream house.

00:22:50.000 This is where you were going to raise a family.

00:22:52.000 When you look at it now, what is it?

00:22:54.000 It's a disaster.

00:22:55.000 It's a nightmare.

00:22:56.000 I don't want to go into the home at all.

00:22:58.000 Attorney Ernest Freeman is representing Aaron and Courtney in their lawsuits against their home builder, Coventry Homes.

00:23:05.000 It all has to do with how the house was put together and whether the builder employed best practices.

00:23:12.000 Aaron says it all started when she noticed that right up there.

00:23:16.000 I had lots of rashes, dermatitis.

00:23:19.000 I also had two miscarriages while I was in the home.

00:23:22.000 These kinds of problems are even more endemic when you look at single family homes that are purchased by large institutions, then leased to families that don't want to pay or can't pay a down payment.

00:23:34.000 The Federal Trade Commission recently reached a tentative $48 million settlement with a company called Invitation Homes, which you may have heard of.

00:23:42.000 They own a lot of the inventory on Zillow.

00:23:45.000 The settlement is related to fees that they sneak into lease agreements, as well as quality control issues.

00:23:52.000 This is from the FTC, quote,

00:23:53.000 The complaint alleges that between 2018 and 2023, residents in 33,328 properties submitted at least one work order within the first week after they moved in for issues including plumbing, electrical and heating and air conditioning service requests.

00:24:09.000 In some instances, residents reported houses that were unclean and had mold, broken appliances, rodent feces, and exposed wiring.

00:24:16.000 Even after renters moved in, the company's supposed 24-7 emergency maintenance was frequently non-existent.

00:24:22.000 According to the complaint, numerous residents complained about being forced to endure days and even weeks in unacceptable and sometimes dangerous conditions,

00:24:29.000 including no heat in the middle of winter, no air conditioning in the summer, and flooding or sewage backing up in the home.

00:24:36.000 Now, if you read the full complaint, there's all kinds of evidence that Invitation Homes was aware of what it was doing.

00:24:44.000 One employee stated, quote,

00:24:45.000 The number of resident complaints I field from new move-ins related to the home not being lease-ready is both alarming and growing.

00:24:55.000 Separately, a senior employee called the process of preparing houses for new renters a, quote, train wreck.

00:25:01.000 And additionally, quote,

00:25:03.000 The complaint cites a 2019 email from Invitation Homes CEO calling on the senior vice president responsible for overseeing the company's fee program to juice this hog by making the smart home fee mandatory for renters.

00:25:16.000 The complaint also points to multiple times the company actively chose not to disclose the fees prior to consumers paying non-refundable application and reservation fees.

00:25:25.000 Now, for what it's worth, the Trump administration recently enacted an executive order that's supposed to reduce the number of single family homes that are owned by companies like Invitation Homes.

00:25:36.000 It mostly tells federal agencies that they shouldn't be, quote,

00:25:39.000 It's a start, but it's not clear exactly how much impact that order will have or can have since the federal government doesn't control the housing market, nor should it control the housing market, by the way.

00:26:01.000 So, in order to actually address the problem of shoddy, fraudulent home builders for both rentals and purchases, it's going to take a lot more than one executive order.

00:26:11.000 And for one thing, purchasers need to be aware that inspections from your local county official are probably useless.

00:26:17.000 You need to get a more thorough inspection for any new home, ideally before the drywall even goes up and then afterwards.

00:26:25.000 Additionally, the administration needs to continue enforcing immigration law to ensure that builders are hiring quality employees, which is not happening at the moment.

00:26:34.000 Now, to the extent that any major builder is deliberately employing illegal aliens, and as we discussed, there are many indications, including just our common sense, that they are. 0.83

00:26:44.000 Those corporations need to be investigated. The relevant executives need to be frog marched in front of cameras. If there's evidence they knowingly hired illegal aliens, they need to go to prison.

00:26:55.000 When was the last time anyone investigated these home builders exactly?

00:27:02.000 We can go after the rental companies, but when did the federal government actually take a close look at D.R. Horton and Lenar and all these other companies?

00:27:11.000 We're overdue for some kind of action at this point.

00:27:15.000 And that's because while it's obviously good that more homes are being built, we need to ensure that those homes are actually livable for new families, and that hundreds of thousands of people aren't being defrauded every year, which is what's happening right now.

00:27:30.000 That's one of the primary responsibilities of any government is to enforce the law.

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00:28:13.000 That's the only way to make sure that, unlike many, many other young homebuyers, you don't end up regretting the biggest purchase of your life.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 27, 2026

Ep. 1742 - New Build NIGHTMARE？ The Scheme That Is Ripping Off Millions Of Americans

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