Just bought a house 2 years ago and after many of our offers being rejected, our agent told us that no one is requesting home inspections because of the volatile market we were in. Corporations are coming in and offering above asking price all cash. It seems these corporations are getting into the landlord business. There’s not enough inventory for houses so prices go up and quality of building homes are going down.
Oh, many of these will give you a list of recommended inspectors that "do a good job, we worked with them in the past, great people"...that have an office in same building as the construction company for some reason, and everyone has the same last name.
These builders should be ashamed. You're exposing them and I am glad. People are paying outrageous amounts for these prefabricated garbage houses and the builders can't even build them to code.
Like I said to others, they probably had a deadline and it was probably a housing development. In those situations, its better to do some shotty work in order to meet the deadline than to miss the deadline. Shotty work can be paid for in court but breaching a contract due to taking too long can be much more financially serious. Those problems are so obvious that it would be a cakewalk in small claims court to get a judgement in the favor of the owner.
@@ryelor123 not even gamers without their own house accept "we had a deadline to crunch" as an excuse for shoddy work, why would it be a valid excuse for the most expensive purchase youll ever make? being under crunch doesnt change or excuse or validate any of these building choices, it just affirms that people need more time and more resources to make things up to standard. being unable to meet a deadline with even the bare minimum quality required because you over-exaggerated your resources isnt an excuse, its an admission of guilt. they should be fined for both violating safety codes AND not following their contracts deadlines, thats the just consequence of their actions and theyre trying to skirt that.
Greedy people never feel shame, even if they kill an entire family with these shoddy builds. It's shocking because new builds should be immaculate. The way things are, no one seems to have pride in their work. So much burnout and disappointment out there.
My house was built in 1900. When I got it inspected, the guy told me that it would still be standing in another 100 years. He said the brand new construction houses he was inspecting would not be standing in 50. And this was 20 years ago. It’s only getting worse.
@@elizabethcook8217 my friend bought a brand new house. The first time it rained, and it wasn’t even a heavy rain, every single one of her windows late. She had a one year warranty and she spent the entire year getting things fixed. Absolutely insane. I am sure there are some good builders out there but I have a feeling they’re few and far between. I updated my house over the last three years, and the only shady workmanship we found was from recent generations, like the last 30 or 40 years. The original stuff was solid as a rock. Real two by fours. And those old fashion Square nails. It was great. Love these old houses.
@@nogames8982 Building a house in the US has gone from "this will be a fine home for several generations to grow up in" to "we can make a quick buck if we only hire unskilled laborers and build a dozen of these real fast".
@@davidredmon3352I wonder if they can put Cy in the building contract? As soon as they see his name in the contract, stating he will be inspecting the home, the contractor will likely back out.
True, however the sad part is less than 1% of all US construction & trade contractors truly care at all. The rest only care about "pay me and maybe I'll think about doing some type of work." There are a few gems, but they are incredibly hard to find. It is truly heartbreaking to see families fucked over like this and the "individuals" who made the crap are laughing.
It used to be a matter of self respect and pride (frequently having an open house to showcase the most recent result - not just to sell it on, but to celebrate it) , but a conglomerate based solely for greedy profit has no respect or shame it only has turnover.
A friend of mine is working in the construction business (he is a roofer) and he said : when these people are building their own house, they take great care at what they do. When they are building people's home, they couldn't care less.
Just goes to show how little some people care about each other, to them a job is just a way to get money, not a way to impact someone's life, and whose responsibility is it to make sure there is quality control?
@@pumkin610 To be fair, the only way to have the peace of mind to start thinking "I want to be able to impact other's life" is when you have enough money so you can feed your kids and send them to school. Lot of people never reach that stage
@@Fabzil while that is thought provoking, I'd be willing to bet that people can both worry about their children's future and want to do a good job that benefits others while they are also providing for their family as best as they can. In any case it is the higher-ups responsibility to make sure that there is a certain level of quality/care-bears-given-about-it.
Then there were the guys who put insulation on the inside of the air ducts. Hundreds of people were made sick before someone just looked. JUST LOOKED... Thanks Cy! hold them accountable.
Uummmm . .. some air ducts are meant to be insulated, they have special insulation for it that gets spot welded inside the HVAC with steel pins. It's called insulated duct. This is coming from a person who fabricated HVAC duct.
@@BFVsnypEzyes but you don’t fabricate your own solution to condensation on your ducts leading to moisture damage by lining them with Mylar tape backed fiberglass insulation. Everyone now breathes glass
My previous boss bought a new home and had just as many problems if not more than my home I bought that was built in 1980. It's sick. Thank you for bringing awareness
I bought a foreclosure built in 1950 that was used as an illegal marijuana drug grow-house and it had less issues than this haha this is insane for a new house
@@ryelor123 perhaps, but I feel like these sorts of errors are beyond the pale. My home is cinderblock in Florida so it's easy enough to stick around, even if it has issues. I guess a lot of it happens with stick built houses there's more to go wrong. Survivorship bias gets thrown around a bit too much imo. Sometimes things really do change it's not all just subjective.
I'm guessing the inspectors knew about the problems and knew they would be fixed in court and thus were approving everything else. The builders probably had a deadline that was more important than a small claims court appointment. That would be my guess. When you create hard deadlines, stuff like this happens.
@@OtherDalfite CyFy gets hired to find problems. The more problems he finds, the more his clients thank their lucky stars they hired him. By contrast, the government inspector gets the same paycheck regardless of what they do, or even whether or not they show up.
@@WildBikerBill oh for sure. CyFy seems like a great inspector. It's funny I say that because really he's just what most inspectors should be, but aren't!
@@WildBikerBill I'd be willing to bet that the government inspectors are underpaid and their offices are understaffed. Want it fixed? Fund them better, hire more of them.
I'm pretty sure the intent isn't for people to actually move into these homes before they were fixed. There was probably a deadline and the builders chose to cut corners and let the problems be brought to court than to fail to fulfill a contract.
If you want something done right, do it your self. Flaws aside I seen so much OSB and cheap wood in this video. McHouses, cheap and fast. Growing up I. The Midwest everyone renovated their own homes or built it them selves. Basically stuff from contractors then did the wiring and plumbing and I tieor them selves. Nothing a contractor could cover up since it was just concrete and framing. DIY Power in a planned obsolescence consumerist society! Remember kids keep buying buying buying and buying $$$$$$$
@@endless_mike you must be one of the crappy inspectors or (un)skilled laborers that are highlighted in these videos! We won’t even take the time to unpack the insecurity of saying I will never finish building it (obvious projection) since I’m secure enough to admit that I will indeed take longer that hiring it out. And while I will surely take more time and waste money, I won’t have to deal with broken joists or hollow tiles or my house burning down from buying the cheapest materials possible 👍
@@brennanlukas5467 law of probability states your probably some 60yr old boomer who's never worked a day in your life.. go back to consulting or whatever tf it is you people do
We hired a realtor, inspector, and all these other people to buy a house. Every single one dropped the ball and fucked us up hard. Now we’re suing. It’s wild how people do these evil acts without a hint of remorse.
it hurts me too, I’m a plumber I’ve been doing it since I was 15-16 full time and it’s my dream to have my own small business helping others get their plumbing done right. I see it with a lot of companies, they couldn’t care less about doing a great job.
We all are and there’s no end in sight. The best thing I can suggest is just stop playing the game. We barely buy anything anymore and it’s oddly freeing. When you realize you are fine without all the crap. When you stop eating out and just make your own good food. When you choose to go to the park or the beach or a museum instead of just shelling out money for everything everywhere to have people not even do the bare minimum and give you attitude on top of that. Just stop playing. Take any of that extra money and invest as well as you can. It’s the only way to stop the bleeding is to take yourself out of the fight.
A few years back, a large section of the I-75 in metro Detroit was getting redone. Turns out the company the state hired used the wrong concrete, a cheaper mix that wasn't DOT approved. Whole thing needed to get torn out and rebuilt a second time.
A similar thing happened in my area. They paved a huge highway right through a beautiful valley, and the blacktop that they installed was too slippery. Several people died on that highway because they didn't have the required friction level. BTW I've been on I75, back in '81. Haven't been back since.
My home was built in 1963. Solid cinder block walls and concrete foundation. The roof decking is 1x8 lumber. Of course the electrical and plumbing was redone before I bought it and they installed central AC. Plus I only paid $118’000 for it in central Florida in 2017.
@@thomasbell7033, I will tell you why. My home is 105 years old. It was built of solid brick, not “brick veneer.” The walls are plaster and lath, not drywall. The 2 x 4 s are actually 2 x 4 s from old growth lumber. The floors are hardwood and they’re in great shape. Over the years the plumbing and electrical were updated but the house is solid, and can last another 100 years. That was a time when men took pride in their crafts. Houses took a close to a year to build, not a few months.
I wish that were true, sketchy builders and shady inspectors have too much power. Why is a builder off the hook in two years when he fd up a slab pour that should be good for AT LEAST 50!! Inspectors, in my state, can't be held liable for anything they may miss during the course of their inspection.... RIDICULOUS!!! I mean no offense to you sir.
Most homebuilders have a non-disparagement clause built into the contracts you sign as the buyer. The only reason why I know is because here in Utah, some nice homes were built on a nice hill. Last year was a very wet winter for us, and a lot of those homes slid down the hill. When i googled these clauses, they are not enforeceable in Utah, but if you plan on going to the news stations, make sure you are not putting yourself out there to be sued.
I read all my contracts, and in some places I initial my name, in other places I write "NO" where the initial goes. Then I sign the contract. I had a dentist with a contract that said I agree to not put out a bad social media review, I wrote "NO" instead of my initials. Office staff just took my paper, gave me a signed by them copy. I posted a bad review and got a nice letter. I circled the "NO" on my contract and sent the attorney a copy. Never heard from them again.
@@janofb😮 I've never had a dentist or medical practitioner have me sign anything like that and if I couldn't go anywhere else, I'd probably cross it out before signing. Wouldn't think of them going around that though, although that's a lesson to myself that if someone is putting that nonsense in there they're probably not above shady scare tactics. Thanks for sharing. (And what staff time/money are -they- spending to go after honest negative reviews, honestly. That's getting passed onto the patient for sure. 🤨)
seen this happen too many times in the last few years. Demand is too high, they half ass the home, home inspectors don’t do their jobs, then the unfinished home gets put up for sale WAY OVER PRICE. And the new owner gets stuck with a shitty built forever loan. SCAMS
You should have seen Las Vegas in the 90’s. My brother was doing plumbing on the new houses and when we would bbq or watch the game with his work buddies they’d say some crazy mess ups and I would ask why they didn’t fix it. It was because their bosses would not let them because it would slow down the work flow and they’d get fired. They had little time to do the work right. I would wonder how it wasn’t cheaper to fix it when it happened instead of covering it up. I was a kid though. Now I know. Regulations only work when the regulators are not getting kickbacks.
@@genericamerican7574most regulations are written to prevent competition and create what there is now. Then you have laws written to prevent bad people from facing the natural consequences of their actions.
Inspectors are getting their pockets lined very nicely by some builders to "expedite" the inspection. Almost like we need stronger regulation and stricter enforcement of violations to protect consumers.
yep, been living in a 1970s ranch for over 5 years and its pretty damn sturdy, most issues come from the recent 2010s renovation, also they have more architectural character than post-2000s era homes
I live here. Many clients in multimillion dollar homes and you wouldn't believe the crap I find. I'm not even an inspector and already have multiple vendors coming back to fix code violations years later (built 2019-2021). I swear if it paid better here I wouldn't mind becoming an inspector, but there's way more money in finding and fixing day-one issues (inspectors can't hire or make profit on fixes, only report and advocate to the right people to do so)
@@Here4TheHeckOfItisn't the definition of normal simply "common", so it could be a sadly normal number of errors for that area or on average across the entire continent
This keeps happening because all builders hire the bottom of the barrel workers with enough skills to skate by. They no longer higher high skill construction workers
It is a combination of: hire unskilled, no/bad supervision, lax (or non-existent) municipal inspections, and using the lowest quality/price materials. edit: Oh, and bought & paid-for politicians plus a PILE of apathy.
@@burtcale6055 Paying hourly rewards inefficiency. The problem is that despite the high price of a house, skilled labor and supervision are expensive, and builders don’t want to pay
The problem is not the workers. The problem is not paying a living wage for the actual experienced workers. Who often just go out and start building custom-only so they can build things they can be proud of.
If and or Whenever I get around to buying a house. This series has definitely given me stuff to look for and check before buying. Thank you for posting your inspections
This what happens when the “builder” is absent. In the past the builder was on the job site, today the builder is a private equity firm. Zero accountability. Private equity is buying everything in the world and running it into the ground. We must get our politicians to stop this practice.
New homes are the worst they’re boring they’re playing they’re built cheaply on a lot that’s barely big enough to hold a trashcan. Most of them you can’t even park in the driveway and builders are the worst people you will ever meet.
When it comes to time you may really want to consider just buying property and highly hiring a smaller custom home builder to help you with that I think the end result will be much more satisfying and better built if you do so.
@@shockingshorts8043 Try finding land. Actual land is too costly, and gone are the days when an average person could buy just a lot in a newly developing neighborhood. Developers are tied in with select builders and you can only have your house built by them.
I’m a state licensed exterior contractor and I don’t work for many builders because I won’t accept sub-contractor rates. They can pay retail or find a sub-contractor. But I’ve fired so many of them because I’m not dealing with their subpar nonsense. They think I can fix it and make it all better but I can’t hide their mess. Besides, we don’t build it, we cover it up.
Bought a home as a first time home owner. The home was only 3yrs old. Come winter I had water in my basement and the winter was the snowiest and coldest ever. Had it inspected by a reputable contractor and there was only 15 feet of drain tiles inside and the sewer pump was not connected to anything. On top of that, the 15ft that was there had beer cans in it. Had to file a law suit. Got half the money back for correcting the problem. The local home inspector was taking money to ignore inspections. He ran from the state. The builder had to pay up. Luckily there were outside drain tiles or it would have cost more.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean anything when so many ppl are buying homes like these today. The bad always ruin the industry reputation for the good guys. Life is unfair.
These aren’t tradesman. They are hired cheap labor that barely know how to get something from point A to point B, a heavy amount of illegals on top of that. I have yet to run into someone in commercial with residential experience that’s worth anything in Arizona.
@@WhiteBuddha22 and people are screaming to give all the migrants work visas, like sure, someone who just got here yesterday will put out super duper quality! The sad thing is the trades used to pay well and actually be career jobs, now most non-licensed labor are day laborers throwing shit together.
I have had fantastic trades (and a couple bad apples). But you have to plan and book the good ones very far in advance. For good reason. And people need to understand that they charge more, but cost much less. You find them through word of mouth. And if you form a good relationship, they can often carve out time for an emergency fix because you weren't a demanding a**. They still exist, and seeing these videos makes me appreciate them even more.
OMG God bless you for Shauna light where we don’t normally think to look most of us are taught how to go buy a house because most of us don’t think we even have that available to us. Let alone to learn how. Thank you for doing such a wonderful kind human Service and thank you for being an upstanding human being and doing your job correctly and trying to make sure you do it correctly and correcting any mistakes and errors that you do make and being honest about it. You are a gem, sir God bless you for the wonderful things that you do.
Yes, some people here more concerned whether they can carry an AK-47 into the supermarket than if an inspector can show they name of a rip-off home builder on stupid YT. Priorities
Super here. This is crazy, I would think that the subs could try a little harder to complete the job and make legit repairs. Its sad to see that all these different builders are having the same issues with the same trades in this area and can’t get the repairs completed properly.
A friend bought a tract home and I toured it a few times. House next door had a leak at one of the shower valves and was puddling on the slab. Came by next week and the shower was tiled and drywall up, with water still leaking!! Some people just do their task and say fuck the rest I guess.
That's because our LOCAL politicians have allowed wealthy, greedy, shady builders/developers/contractors to sway the laws these politicians make. Rules, regulations & those home inspectors are all following whatever laws those politicians make...or not. This IS why we need to vote & know who you are voting for. "All politics is local."
@@bigpjohnsonCraftsmanship does not apply to anything stick frame built in the USA. The whole point of stick frame building with the associated trades was to be able to use semi skilled labor to put them up as we are seeing through these home inspections. The framing,trusses, sheetrock, plumbing, heating & cooling, painting, roofing, along with the crap that passes as building products are a joke. If the average price of a house placed on piece of desert dirt goes for $400,000, Americans are getting screwed. You probably want to also say that Americans build a darn good truck for the price. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Cause everyone is getting screwed. A lot of these major developers hire illegals as well and these guys literally could not care less. I’ve worker in the trades for 10 years from roofing/framing to finish carpentry and having my own business now. In a state like FL, the larger companies will just outbid jobs and pay the cheapest person they can constantly. I can personally say a lot of the high quality craftsman were and are exceptional individuals. But most that I know have all started new careers and threw the towel in for one reason or another. I’ve been saying it for years, when construction industry falls apart everyone will suffer.
We bought a house that was built in the 50's. The plumbing and electric had already been redone, we had no problems whatsoever with that house. It just stood their and became out home. I suppose any issues it might have had would have already been fixed well before we moved in about ten years ago.
Just a suggestion, but shouldn't most inspectors have at least graduated grade school. I think Stevie and Ray could "see" a lot of these issues. I can't imagine signing papers on this garbage for 30 years. Where are the banks reviewing these sites. Do they not care what their money is going for??? Is anyone in this area accountable for anything being built??? Beyond horrible😮😮
I'm a municipal building inspector. I reject 80% of frames on residential. I hold an associates in building science, I have a residential and commercial inspectors license which is an unlimited license as well as a home inspectors license. I've taken 240 credit hours in building science classes and well as a ton of CEUs. I print off 30+ item rejection lists on a regular basis. And no, inspectors aReNt In On ThE tAkE. That's how you get arrested. That 150% doesn't happen. However, it absolutely happens that inspectors are government employees and government jobs breed laziness. I am not that inspector. I spend every minute I can while still having to perform 30 inspections a day. The bureaucracy of government work means we can just hire more inspectors. But we do have quality control checks and we do get made aware of issues.l, at least in my city. We take regular continuing ed classes and courses with engineered product manufacturers. I realize that anything I say will result in you lobbing even more baseless accusations at an industry as a whole, to which all I can say is that, like with ANYTHING else, you have good and you have bad workers. But nobody is taking cuts. An inspector in SF was recently arrested and out in jail for doing that. And inspectors do get sued. The amount of liability we actually carry is immense. Now, our job isn't to check EVERYRHING. I check foundations and frames. Anything outside of that is the job of guys like Sy. It's literally impossible for us to check everything a home inspector checks. So anyways, enjoy your day and thank you for almost certainly not reading this reply to your cut and pasted comment.
Don't worry guys, the consumer will start seeing the benefits of a profit driven system, any second now. Yup, any minute, the system that prioritizes wealth extraction and hoarding will pay big time for consumers.
You are doing great work. Never seen anything like this. Our builders up here in WI are pro’s who take pride in their work. Of course there’s bad apples but they get caught before inspections.
The government is useless. Exposing this, like you are, is the best course of action. We have to correct these builders by NOT giving them our business.
"The Government is useless . . ." People want their taxes cut and small government, but somehow expect government services to improve. And when they don't improve, they are sadly convinced that the solution is more tax cuts. It's like withholding water and light from a plant and expecting it to thrive. It's not going to happen.
“The government is useless” 100% sir. I’m fortunate to have learned than early in life. Some people here actually think you can just give them more taxes and increase regulations and suddenly the government will save us all. Sad. Maybe study some history.
I live next-door to a house millennium builders built in southern Indiana. They kept trying to cross the property line, tried to cut trees down behind my back after we’d already agreed which trees they could cut down from my yard. Then, they ran the drainage hose off their back gutter under the property line to empty right at my fence out of spite when I did not let them cut the tree down that they tried to cut down behind my back.
At this point I'm buying a pre 2020 home or better yet I might as well build it all by myself with no HOA. I don't care how much more money and time it would cost. I want to choose which carpenters, electricians , drywallers, plumbers/HVAC, etc. are on the job.
There's plenty pre 2020 shadiness, too. Anything we used to call "Poppin Fresh" or "McMansion" around here post 2006*. I used to do census and nonprofit canvassing that wasn't related to home quality at all, but just on the doorstep or invited into the living room in so many houses I could see so much already falling apart that it didn't bode well for anything else. Certain neighborhoods so new they were still building, and I'd see roofs where you could see the gutter system wouldn't work from the sidewalk (especially if it had rained and there was just a pool on the weird multi-slope roof, or minilake against the edge of the house sure that was great for the foundation). Or lack of attic insulation in Michigan winter = melting water = freezing into HUGE icicles. Or doorbells broken on homes under 5 years old in 200k+ neighborhoods. So many broken doorbells in the same style in so many neighborhoods. Yeah little thing but when the builders cheap out on the -doorbell-... it don't bode well. *Maybe earlier but that's when I started working knocking on upwards of 50 doors a day, and I have a feeling the housing bubble work quality from builders/contractors might be similar to problems since pandemic... Sorry so long lol I'm finally starting to consider buying so been thinking on this and binging this channel bc knowledge is power etc. Honestly I might just go much earlier builds. Might have to deal with lead abatement and general old stuff to fix, probably a smaller yard, but I feel like a solid structure is the most important. And at least around here the newer builds and solid older can be price competitive. Not for me, they're all too damn expensive, but with each other lol.
@@jenelaina5665 I know a lot of carpenters left after the housing crash and never came back. It seems post 2020 things were bad but got a lot worse. At least back in the '90s you could buy a cheap new home for a cheap price. Now you buy a cheap styrofoam home for a luxury price.
@@jenelaina5665 the older builds (pre mcmansion 1980s and before) can have amazing architectural character, shed contemporarys and splitlevels are better than any newbuild ranch with no character
And although it is pretty bad as far as new construction goes I'm pretty sure there's somebody already appointed to that their job not so much your guys but you know of a local government supposed to really check on things type away because I'm here to tell you the building inspection department in my area at least the really big one If any of this was stuff was ever brought up they would absolutely have some explaining to do you know of like who inspected that roof that the pallet of shingles fell through and that kind of stuff yeah I totally know for a fact since I used to work there that heads would be a rolling!
That's really funny that she showed that shot of the two pieces of pexA by far in my opinion are absolutely the best for pex But I can't really imagine that being too much more than a year old and the fact that it seems as far as manufacturers instructions it was installed properly in my mind that would mean one thing and one thing only and it has nothing to do with the people who are installing it?
Oh and the last part of that the reason I said that is cuz when I've seen when that happens the reason it's happening is because somebody's getting paid for it to happen!😂😮😢 I mean can you imagine at the safety meeting every 8 days that you're supposed to be having that you know maybe it would be brought up that oh hey guys be on the lookout for PEX that fails early seeing how it is that you know you know they're cheap I mean I couldn't imagine okay guys we're going back to strictly copper no plastic whatsoever coppers the new name of the game yeah that's never going to happen!
@@shockingshorts8043Yeah, that's unbelievable, that should NEVER happen ANYWHERE! They NEVER should have placed a pallet of tiles on the roof unless they reinforced the area to transfer the load directly to a bearing wall!
Damn bro, you are the best of the best! It's scary how much of this gets by other inspectors, AND double scary that this is the quality of the builders in your area and who knows where else. Definitely want a consult with you before i buy new.
My house was built in the 70s and they didn't put any grounding outlets in our kitchen so all our appliances are plugged in with adapters (dangerous fire hazard) because we could never afford to have our outlets rewired properly. You're always supposed to use grounded outlets anywhere with water,outside, bathroom and kitchen. Only one single grounded outlet in our bathroom and nowhere else in the house.
Its what happens when you have strict deadlines. The builders probably did some shotty work to meet the deadline with the intent to pay for that work in court but still keep the housing development as a customer. Court cases between companies aren't like court cases between individuals where both sides will forever despise each other and never work together again.
Itis an inspection problem. I’m a builder and you have to get inspections several times, sometimes over a dozen, before they’ll let anyone moving in. Structural and concrete inspections. Framing, electrical, mechanical, at different levels of rough and finish construction. Plus banks will have their own assessors if a loan is involved. These situations are quite rare and have very specific reasons why it happened, usually an inspector in need of firing for simply not doing their job.
@@davidbeauchemin1840 That is in the consumer to give money to a good product. Can’t get give people money and blindly expect them to not rip you off. Not knowing will put a target on you for those that are looking to rip you off
It always was, my house is over fifty years old and the electricity is a nightmare, no grounded outlets in the kitchen (dangerous) and they painted all the air vents shut on our air conditioning. Construction workers have always been super lazy and cut corners while acting like the toughest dudes, but they're as lazy as anyone else when it comes down to it and cut any corners they can, and that's not a new thing. You know you don't even need any qualifications or education at all? My friend is an absolute ditz who messes up everything she touches, and all she had to do was stand outside an office at 4 am until someone looking for temps pulls up and asks who wants a construction job, and they give her tools and just point at something and tell her to do it. No training, no education, it's been common practice for years, there are entire organizations just for people to come and hire anyone off the street because it's cheaper, someone with no training just signs a clipboard and the first job that pops up, they get it, and these organizations have been around for decades. They gave my friend a jackhammer, that's psychopathic, she's a full blown stoner with severe anxiety who spaces out and disassociates and forgets where she is and what she's doing, but sure, just hand her a jackhammer, what could go wrong? They're lucky she didn't hurt herself or someone else.
@@interstellarphred another trap....the ones with the wealth create loopholes to not pay taxes. U are correct we don't have a free market currently....which the wealthy hate as well. It will get much worse before change will happen for the good or bad.
That's what they sell themselves as. A premium home builder. It's obvious that they don't have a internal system for inspection of the homes during the home building process. I'm sure they started the business with good intentions. I think greed plays a large part of the poor quality homes we see coming from so many home builders.
You can get inspectors that check the building at three stages of the build to catch things before it's too late. In this day and age, it's with the cost.
... if I ever have a house built, either I'm doing my own walkthroughs at each stage PLUS hiring an Inspector, or I'm building it myself. I... don't really wanna build it myself, though.
To all you people moving to Denver, don’t buy a house in the Stapleton area. When workers get paid by piece work, they get as much done as quickly as possible. Quality suffers. I’ve heard and seen so much shoddy work out there.
How about holding local county and city inspectors accountable? Sorry that insulation is 100% unacceptable and the water drain line. Horrendous. These builders need to be put out of business.
Clearly the building department inspectors need to be held accountable as well
Could be time to start hiring graduates of at least Jr. High. I still think Stevie and Ray could even "see" some of these issues. 😢😢
They have to be on the take
I have found about a dozen issues in my own home that should’ve been caught by inspectors.
@@RichieRichpobutproudThey won't get invited to bureaucraps Ocean front Mansions for VA CA.
Never happen !
You need to stop buying from anyone that doesn't allow an inspection. That shouldn't even be a question.
There dealing with toll brothers and lennar they need to keep stocks high.. s/
Just bought a house 2 years ago and after many of our offers being rejected, our agent told us that no one is requesting home inspections because of the volatile market we were in.
Corporations are coming in and offering above asking price all cash. It seems these corporations are getting into the landlord business. There’s not enough inventory for houses so prices go up and quality of building homes are going down.
@johnathansaegal3156 don't put all your faith in inspectors. They're not all youtube stars, half of them are worse hacks than these builders
@@hawaiiantimes7702 Looking to invest all those profits from trump's tax cuts and driving up housing to unaffordable levels in doing so.
Oh, many of these will give you a list of recommended inspectors that "do a good job, we worked with them in the past, great people"...that have an office in same building as the construction company for some reason, and everyone has the same last name.
These builders should be ashamed. You're exposing them and I am glad. People are paying outrageous amounts for these prefabricated garbage houses and the builders can't even build them to code.
Like I said to others, they probably had a deadline and it was probably a housing development. In those situations, its better to do some shotty work in order to meet the deadline than to miss the deadline. Shotty work can be paid for in court but breaching a contract due to taking too long can be much more financially serious. Those problems are so obvious that it would be a cakewalk in small claims court to get a judgement in the favor of the owner.
Not ALL prefabricated houses are garbage. Do your homework BEFORE you sign anything.
@@ryelor123that does not justify anything
@@ryelor123 not even gamers without their own house accept "we had a deadline to crunch" as an excuse for shoddy work, why would it be a valid excuse for the most expensive purchase youll ever make? being under crunch doesnt change or excuse or validate any of these building choices, it just affirms that people need more time and more resources to make things up to standard.
being unable to meet a deadline with even the bare minimum quality required because you over-exaggerated your resources isnt an excuse, its an admission of guilt. they should be fined for both violating safety codes AND not following their contracts deadlines, thats the just consequence of their actions and theyre trying to skirt that.
Greedy people never feel shame, even if they kill an entire family with these shoddy builds. It's shocking because new builds should be immaculate. The way things are, no one seems to have pride in their work. So much burnout and disappointment out there.
My house was built in 1900. When I got it inspected, the guy told me that it would still be standing in another 100 years. He said the brand new construction houses he was inspecting would not be standing in 50. And this was 20 years ago. It’s only getting worse.
Same here. My house is 108yrs old. No way would I live in these.
@@elizabethcook8217 my friend bought a brand new house. The first time it rained, and it wasn’t even a heavy rain, every single one of her windows late. She had a one year warranty and she spent the entire year getting things fixed. Absolutely insane. I am sure there are some good builders out there but I have a feeling they’re few and far between. I updated my house over the last three years, and the only shady workmanship we found was from recent generations, like the last 30 or 40 years. The original stuff was solid as a rock. Real two by fours. And those old fashion Square nails. It was great. Love these old houses.
@@nogames8982 Building a house in the US has gone from "this will be a fine home for several generations to grow up in" to "we can make a quick buck if we only hire unskilled laborers and build a dozen of these real fast".
am currently buying a house from 1937, and it is SOLID from roof to basement. They built shit to last back then.
I recently bought a home built in the 1920’s and my inspector said the same thing
Former laborer, foreman, superintendent and general contractor here.
Thank you.
Hate this guy or not he does a damn good job and the right thing
The ONLY ppl who hate him are the ones that don't want him doing his job!
Why would anyone spending their money dislike him???
This man has the balls to call out their piss poor workmanship! I'm sure the builders cringe when he shows up.
Yup, one of the few decent inspectors on RUclips.
@@davidredmon3352I wonder if they can put Cy in the building contract?
As soon as they see his name in the contract, stating he will be inspecting the home, the contractor will likely back out.
Like why are they mad that the product they made is being quality tested? A builder with integrity should WANT their work tested
True, however the sad part is less than 1% of all US construction & trade contractors truly care at all. The rest only care about "pay me and maybe I'll think about doing some type of work." There are a few gems, but they are incredibly hard to find. It is truly heartbreaking to see families fucked over like this and the "individuals" who made the crap are laughing.
It’s what happens when big business takes over and it’s just get it done and make a profit.
Because they are paying good money to not have their products tested.
It used to be a matter of self respect and pride (frequently having an open house to showcase the most recent result - not just to sell it on, but to celebrate it) , but a conglomerate based solely for greedy profit has no respect or shame it only has turnover.
A friend of mine is working in the construction business (he is a roofer) and he said : when these people are building their own house, they take great care at what they do. When they are building people's home, they couldn't care less.
Man. Talk about being disengaged from your job ☹️
Just goes to show how little some people care about each other, to them a job is just a way to get money, not a way to impact someone's life, and whose responsibility is it to make sure there is quality control?
@@pumkin610 To be fair, the only way to have the peace of mind to start thinking "I want to be able to impact other's life" is when you have enough money so you can feed your kids and send them to school. Lot of people never reach that stage
@@Fabzil while that is thought provoking, I'd be willing to bet that people can both worry about their children's future and want to do a good job that benefits others while they are also providing for their family as best as they can. In any case it is the higher-ups responsibility to make sure that there is a certain level of quality/care-bears-given-about-it.
"can't see it from my house"
Then there were the guys who put insulation on the inside of the air ducts. Hundreds of people were made sick before someone just looked. JUST LOOKED...
Thanks Cy! hold them accountable.
Uummmm . .. some air ducts are meant to be insulated, they have special insulation for it that gets spot welded inside the HVAC with steel pins. It's called insulated duct. This is coming from a person who fabricated HVAC duct.
@@BFVsnypEzyes but you don’t fabricate your own solution to condensation on your ducts leading to moisture damage by lining them with Mylar tape backed fiberglass insulation. Everyone now breathes glass
Toll brothers slapping together developments saying “as long as it looks good”
I guess if you like the out of square look.
As long as you stand 20 feet back... you're good.
I love that when the drain from the laundry pan is working like it's supposed to it will pour water on people walking off of the patio.
Hopefully the drain on the pan doesn't need to be used. If it does, that's kind of a smart place to put it, so the homeowner sees.
I love that someone else responded to you but RUclips is shadowbanned them
@@cristopherfrakes1416 we live in a crazy world.
THAT WAS MY THOUGHT TOO!!!! My first thought was, "why tf did they put that there???" LMFAOOO
Keh@@strawberrybunnie4422
My previous boss bought a new home and had just as many problems if not more than my home I bought that was built in 1980. It's sick. Thank you for bringing awareness
I bought a foreclosure built in 1950 that was used as an illegal marijuana drug grow-house and it had less issues than this haha this is insane for a new house
@@benjaminolsen2381 Survivorship bias. All the crappy homes were torn down.
@@ryelor123 perhaps, but I feel like these sorts of errors are beyond the pale. My home is cinderblock in Florida so it's easy enough to stick around, even if it has issues. I guess a lot of it happens with stick built houses there's more to go wrong. Survivorship bias gets thrown around a bit too much imo. Sometimes things really do change it's not all just subjective.
@@benjaminolsen2381 cinderblock!? Lol
@@joseramirez-sz9yothere are millions of cinder block homes in the southeast. When I was a kid our family lived in three of them over the years.
With this level of slackness the only explanation is that the municipal building departments are being paid off by the builders
I'm guessing the inspectors knew about the problems and knew they would be fixed in court and thus were approving everything else. The builders probably had a deadline that was more important than a small claims court appointment. That would be my guess. When you create hard deadlines, stuff like this happens.
You'd be surprised how lazy some "inspectors" are too.
@@OtherDalfite CyFy gets hired to find problems. The more problems he finds, the more his clients thank their lucky stars they hired him. By contrast, the government inspector gets the same paycheck regardless of what they do, or even whether or not they show up.
@@WildBikerBill oh for sure. CyFy seems like a great inspector. It's funny I say that because really he's just what most inspectors should be, but aren't!
@@WildBikerBill I'd be willing to bet that the government inspectors are underpaid and their offices are understaffed. Want it fixed? Fund them better, hire more of them.
Toll Brothers?! Ugh!! Almost got me. Thank you for doing these. Much appreciated.
I’d never build a home. After watching your clips im convinced there are no skilled craftsmen anymore.😢
Think of how sick families get from some of these homes. Thank you for caring. Make your day amazing and never stop moving forward!
I'm pretty sure the intent isn't for people to actually move into these homes before they were fixed. There was probably a deadline and the builders chose to cut corners and let the problems be brought to court than to fail to fulfill a contract.
If you want something done right, do it your self. Flaws aside I seen so much OSB and cheap wood in this video. McHouses, cheap and fast. Growing up I. The Midwest everyone renovated their own homes or built it them selves. Basically stuff from contractors then did the wiring and plumbing and I tieor them selves. Nothing a contractor could cover up since it was just concrete and framing. DIY Power in a planned obsolescence consumerist society! Remember kids keep buying buying buying and buying $$$$$$$
@@ryelor123 they are large corporate builders that hire cheap unskilled immigrant labor. i dare you to find someone that speaks english on site.
@@DieselRamcharger Bingo. Look at any nasty mexico mud hut it looks just like this
Every one of these I watch just reinforces my reasoning for building it myself when it comes time
Then you'll fail inspection.
won’t fail if it’s done to code. Unlike most of these builders I can read and comprehend the building code in my area
@@brennanlukas5467 and unlike you those guys actually work for a living. good luck never getting your project done
@@endless_mike you must be one of the crappy inspectors or (un)skilled laborers that are highlighted in these videos! We won’t even take the time to unpack the insecurity of saying I will never finish building it (obvious projection) since I’m secure enough to admit that I will indeed take longer that hiring it out. And while I will surely take more time and waste money, I won’t have to deal with broken joists or hollow tiles or my house burning down from buying the cheapest materials possible 👍
@@brennanlukas5467 law of probability states your probably some 60yr old boomer who's never worked a day in your life.. go back to consulting or whatever tf it is you people do
I'm so tired of giving my money to people that don't give a crap about me
I feel that. I know it's often costing more, but small artisans/contractors/vendors are usually. Were concerned about our clients more often
The government?
We hired a realtor, inspector, and all these other people to buy a house. Every single one dropped the ball and fucked us up hard. Now we’re suing.
It’s wild how people do these evil acts without a hint of remorse.
it hurts me too, I’m a plumber I’ve been doing it since I was 15-16 full time and it’s my dream to have my own small business helping others get their plumbing done right. I see it with a lot of companies, they couldn’t care less about doing a great job.
We all are and there’s no end in sight. The best thing I can suggest is just stop playing the game. We barely buy anything anymore and it’s oddly freeing. When you realize you are fine without all the crap. When you stop eating out and just make your own good food. When you choose to go to the park or the beach or a museum instead of just shelling out money for everything everywhere to have people not even do the bare minimum and give you attitude on top of that. Just stop playing. Take any of that extra money and invest as well as you can. It’s the only way to stop the bleeding is to take yourself out of the fight.
A few years back, a large section of the I-75 in metro Detroit was getting redone. Turns out the company the state hired used the wrong concrete, a cheaper mix that wasn't DOT approved. Whole thing needed to get torn out and rebuilt a second time.
A similar thing happened in my area. They paved a huge highway right through a beautiful valley, and the blacktop that they installed was too slippery. Several people died on that highway because they didn't have the required friction level. BTW I've been on I75, back in '81. Haven't been back since.
well of course, why build it once for the price when you can build it twice for double that.
I'm so glad I bought a house that was built-in the mid-seventies. They knew how to build a quality home back then.
It was mostly American workers then and it's mostly not now.
@@jesseback3536 "Manufactured in the USA using global workers"
Except people were saying the same thing about shoddy workmanship then. I'm 69 and I have no idea why people worship the past.
My home was built in 1963. Solid cinder block walls and concrete foundation. The roof decking is 1x8 lumber. Of course the electrical and plumbing was redone before I bought it and they installed central AC. Plus I only paid $118’000 for it in central Florida in 2017.
@@thomasbell7033, I will tell you why. My home is 105 years old. It was built of solid brick, not “brick veneer.” The walls are plaster and lath, not drywall. The 2 x 4 s are actually 2 x 4 s from old growth lumber. The floors are hardwood and they’re in great shape. Over the years the plumbing and electrical were updated but the house is solid, and can last another 100 years. That was a time when men took pride in their crafts. Houses took a close to a year to build, not a few months.
From one home inspector to another, great work! You’re improving the industry every day!
I wish that were true, sketchy builders and shady inspectors have too much power. Why is a builder off the hook in two years when he fd up a slab pour that should be good for AT LEAST 50!! Inspectors, in my state, can't be held liable for anything they may miss during the course of their inspection.... RIDICULOUS!!! I mean no offense to you sir.
Most homebuilders have a non-disparagement clause built into the contracts you sign as the buyer. The only reason why I know is because here in Utah, some nice homes were built on a nice hill. Last year was a very wet winter for us, and a lot of those homes slid down the hill. When i googled these clauses, they are not enforeceable in Utah, but if you plan on going to the news stations, make sure you are not putting yourself out there to be sued.
I read all my contracts, and in some places I initial my name, in other places I write "NO" where the initial goes. Then I sign the contract. I had a dentist with a contract that said I agree to not put out a bad social media review, I wrote "NO" instead of my initials. Office staff just took my paper, gave me a signed by them copy. I posted a bad review and got a nice letter. I circled the "NO" on my contract and sent the attorney a copy. Never heard from them again.
Tell me about it. My builder sucked. When I posted a bad review they were on my porch the next day threatening to sue me.
I guess I'm not surprised but that's so messed up.
@@janofb😮 I've never had a dentist or medical practitioner have me sign anything like that and if I couldn't go anywhere else, I'd probably cross it out before signing. Wouldn't think of them going around that though, although that's a lesson to myself that if someone is putting that nonsense in there they're probably not above shady scare tactics. Thanks for sharing.
(And what staff time/money are -they- spending to go after honest negative reviews, honestly. That's getting passed onto the patient for sure. 🤨)
@@janofb I've never heard of a patient signing a contract with a dentist. You learn something every day.
This is where project managers and foremans need to be held accountable. Trust but verify.
Every one of these makes me appreciate my 1936 Sears kit home more.
This is the sort of thing that takes "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" to a whole new level. But you shouldn't have to .
We need you in Parker Colorado a.k.a. Especially DR Horton. Man we are so pissed out here
Pure junk house by D R H
Serves ya right. Move back to Cali you fuckin comi. 😂
single family homes are bad and will always be bad
LMFAO literally all I seen working out in Aurora CO was all the new stupid expensive cookie cutter neighborhoods with all these trash built "homes"
seen this happen too many times in the last few years. Demand is too high, they half ass the home, home inspectors don’t do their jobs, then the unfinished home gets put up for sale WAY OVER PRICE. And the new owner gets stuck with a shitty built forever loan.
SCAMS
You should have seen Las Vegas in the 90’s. My brother was doing plumbing on the new houses and when we would bbq or watch the game with his work buddies they’d say some crazy mess ups and I would ask why they didn’t fix it. It was because their bosses would not let them because it would slow down the work flow and they’d get fired. They had little time to do the work right. I would wonder how it wasn’t cheaper to fix it when it happened instead of covering it up. I was a kid though. Now I know. Regulations only work when the regulators are not getting kickbacks.
I have a 90s house with similar issues. This has gone on for a while.
@@genericamerican7574most regulations are written to prevent competition and create what there is now. Then you have laws written to prevent bad people from facing the natural consequences of their actions.
I too have seen too many "home inspectors" lie and manipulate people like you to make money.. Oh wait, that wasn't what you were talking about huh?
Inspectors are getting their pockets lined very nicely by some builders to "expedite" the inspection. Almost like we need stronger regulation and stricter enforcement of violations to protect consumers.
Moralnof the story: don't buy a tract home unless it's 50 years old.
yep, been living in a 1970s ranch for over 5 years and its pretty damn sturdy, most issues come from the recent 2010s renovation, also they have more architectural character than post-2000s era homes
I wish you had a million subscribers. You're doing an amazing job in a critical position. Keep up the good work! You're an inspiration.
I remember looking at houses in Vegas . The realtor honestly told me to expect at least 42 problems in any new home
That is not normal.
I live here. Many clients in multimillion dollar homes and you wouldn't believe the crap I find. I'm not even an inspector and already have multiple vendors coming back to fix code violations years later (built 2019-2021). I swear if it paid better here I wouldn't mind becoming an inspector, but there's way more money in finding and fixing day-one issues (inspectors can't hire or make profit on fixes, only report and advocate to the right people to do so)
@@Here4TheHeckOfItisn't the definition of normal simply "common", so it could be a sadly normal number of errors for that area or on average across the entire continent
This keeps happening because all builders hire the bottom of the barrel workers with enough skills to skate by. They no longer higher high skill construction workers
And pay them by the job, not hourly.
It is a combination of: hire unskilled, no/bad supervision, lax (or non-existent) municipal inspections, and using the lowest quality/price materials.
edit: Oh, and bought & paid-for politicians plus a PILE of apathy.
@@burtcale6055 Paying hourly rewards inefficiency. The problem is that despite the high price of a house, skilled labor and supervision are expensive, and builders don’t want to pay
The challenge is that in many areas, new subdivisions are not open to custom builders. It is all the big boys with there rubber stamp homes.
The problem is not the workers. The problem is not paying a living wage for the actual experienced workers. Who often just go out and start building custom-only so they can build things they can be proud of.
If and or Whenever I get around to buying a house. This series has definitely given me stuff to look for and check before buying. Thank you for posting your inspections
Some construction managers should be in prison for fraud
This what happens when the “builder” is absent. In the past the builder was on the job site, today the builder is a private equity firm. Zero accountability. Private equity is buying everything in the world and running it into the ground. We must get our politicians to stop this practice.
New homes are the worst they’re boring they’re playing they’re built cheaply on a lot that’s barely big enough to hold a trashcan. Most of them you can’t even park in the driveway and builders are the worst people you will ever meet.
When it comes to time you may really want to consider just buying property and highly hiring a smaller custom home builder to help you with that I think the end result will be much more satisfying and better built if you do so.
@@shockingshorts8043 Try finding land. Actual land is too costly, and gone are the days when an average person could buy just a lot in a newly developing neighborhood. Developers are tied in with select builders and you can only have your house built by them.
I’m a state licensed exterior contractor and I don’t work for many builders because I won’t accept sub-contractor rates. They can pay retail or find a sub-contractor. But I’ve fired so many of them because I’m not dealing with their subpar nonsense. They think I can fix it and make it all better but I can’t hide their mess. Besides, we don’t build it, we cover it up.
Can you elaborate, I'm from Europe so I don't know what you mean exactly, thanks!
DR HORTON here in NC. DAMN THEM TOO
Where are you at in NC? My parents are in Durham and they have like 5-7 new subdivisions in progress or about to start.
@@jpnguyen11 Just for fun, google DR Horton class action
I’m in a DR Horton house. Thankfully no problems for the last 5 years. 😬
This is why having your own inspector is worth the money.
Imagine if ever new build had an inspector like Cy. 👊
Bought a home as a first time home owner. The home was only 3yrs old. Come winter I had water in my basement and the winter was the snowiest and coldest ever. Had it inspected by a reputable contractor and there was only 15 feet of drain tiles inside and the sewer pump was not connected to anything. On top of that, the 15ft that was there had beer cans in it. Had to file a law suit. Got half the money back for correcting the problem. The local home inspector was taking money to ignore inspections. He ran from the state. The builder had to pay up. Luckily there were outside drain tiles or it would have cost more.
I do repair on homes.i take pride in what I do.i loss sleep worrying about jobs.not all tradspeople produce garbage like this.❤
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean anything when so many ppl are buying homes like these today.
The bad always ruin the industry reputation for the good guys.
Life is unfair.
These aren’t tradesman. They are hired cheap labor that barely know how to get something from point A to point B, a heavy amount of illegals on top of that. I have yet to run into someone in commercial with residential experience that’s worth anything in Arizona.
It's these big corporate builders.
@@WhiteBuddha22 and people are screaming to give all the migrants work visas, like sure, someone who just got here yesterday will put out super duper quality! The sad thing is the trades used to pay well and actually be career jobs, now most non-licensed labor are day laborers throwing shit together.
I have had fantastic trades (and a couple bad apples). But you have to plan and book the good ones very far in advance. For good reason. And people need to understand that they charge more, but cost much less. You find them through word of mouth. And if you form a good relationship, they can often carve out time for an emergency fix because you weren't a demanding a**. They still exist, and seeing these videos makes me appreciate them even more.
Hopefully your educating home buyers.
It's crazy how easy it is to steal and ruin people's lives without any consequences.
OMG God bless you for Shauna light where we don’t normally think to look most of us are taught how to go buy a house because most of us don’t think we even have that available to us. Let alone to learn how. Thank you for doing such a wonderful kind human Service and thank you for being an upstanding human being and doing your job correctly and trying to make sure you do it correctly and correcting any mistakes and errors that you do make and being honest about it. You are a gem, sir God bless you for the wonderful things that you do.
Our government need to tighten up on the corrupt builder who put out junk like this
It’s that corrupt builder’s government not ours. They pay good money for people to look the other way.
The government is the source of all evil and corruption in this nation. Why would you expect them to fix anything? They hate us.
Ah, Arizona. Last state admitted in the 48, still lagging behind. 👍🏼
Yes, some people here more concerned whether they can carry an AK-47 into the supermarket than if an inspector can show they name of a rip-off home builder on stupid YT. Priorities
I’m so glad I discovered your channel, thank you!
This guy is doing a good job exposing these crooks but he really needs to be careful…crooks don’t like being exposed.
I hope you get an award for your great help ....everyone before buying a home inquiry with you .
Super here. This is crazy, I would think that the subs could try a little harder to complete the job and make legit repairs. Its sad to see that all these different builders are having the same issues with the same trades in this area and can’t get the repairs completed properly.
If they don't care about the build then they certainly won't care about the fix.
A friend bought a tract home and I toured it a few times. House next door had a leak at one of the shower valves and was puddling on the slab. Came by next week and the shower was tiled and drywall up, with water still leaking!! Some people just do their task and say fuck the rest I guess.
It’s crazy to see how far downhill craftsmanship and quality has fallen
Were you under the impression that craftsmanship comes into play regarding a tract home?😅😅😅😅😅😅
That's because our LOCAL politicians have allowed wealthy, greedy, shady builders/developers/contractors to sway the laws these politicians make.
Rules, regulations & those home inspectors are all following whatever laws those politicians make...or not.
This IS why we need to vote & know who you are voting for.
"All politics is local."
@@really2345yes? There are great tract builders out there with skilled labor, then you have these fools who just hire anyone to throw stuff together.
@@bigpjohnsonCraftsmanship does not apply to anything stick frame built in the USA. The whole point of stick frame building with the associated trades was to be able to use semi skilled labor to put them up as we are seeing through these home inspections. The framing,trusses, sheetrock, plumbing, heating & cooling, painting, roofing, along with the crap that passes as building products are a joke. If the average price of a house placed on piece of desert dirt goes for $400,000, Americans are getting screwed. You probably want to also say that Americans build a darn good truck for the price. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Cause everyone is getting screwed. A lot of these major developers hire illegals as well and these guys literally could not care less. I’ve worker in the trades for 10 years from roofing/framing to finish carpentry and having my own business now. In a state like FL, the larger companies will just outbid jobs and pay the cheapest person they can constantly. I can personally say a lot of the high quality craftsman were and are exceptional individuals. But most that I know have all started new careers and threw the towel in for one reason or another. I’ve been saying it for years, when construction industry falls apart everyone will suffer.
That's just horrible.
Toll brothers homes , “you can actually polish a turd until it almost blinds you , but it’s still a turd”. -me
The problem is the realtors, inspectors and builders are all in on it and have been for decades.
That's appalling. How do people in positions of responsibility sleep at night?
By being sociopaths
you wont believe this but 90% of positions with authority are filled with psychopaths
These houses should be condemned, not sold to an unsuspecting family!!
Thank you Cy!!
Whaaaaaaat. That's so bad. Are those 1mil houses too? What's up from CA.
It's refugees from California that are buying these POS.
What an absolute nightmare for home owners. Bless you for doing this work.
What a stressful nightmare for the owners
I can't afford to buy a new home, but it still sucks to see new construction homes not being done well.
We bought a house that was built in the 50's. The plumbing and electric had already been redone, we had no problems whatsoever with that house. It just stood their and became out home. I suppose any issues it might have had would have already been fixed well before we moved in about ten years ago.
Just a suggestion, but shouldn't most inspectors have at least graduated grade school. I think Stevie and Ray could "see" a lot of these issues. I can't imagine signing papers on this garbage for 30 years. Where are the banks reviewing these sites. Do they not care what their money is going for??? Is anyone in this area accountable for anything being built??? Beyond horrible😮😮
The banks know what's going on and don't care. Why? They always get your money.
Take a look at how many municipal inspectors don't even travel with a ladder...
I'm a municipal building inspector. I reject 80% of frames on residential. I hold an associates in building science, I have a residential and commercial inspectors license which is an unlimited license as well as a home inspectors license. I've taken 240 credit hours in building science classes and well as a ton of CEUs. I print off 30+ item rejection lists on a regular basis. And no, inspectors aReNt In On ThE tAkE. That's how you get arrested. That 150% doesn't happen. However, it absolutely happens that inspectors are government employees and government jobs breed laziness. I am not that inspector. I spend every minute I can while still having to perform 30 inspections a day. The bureaucracy of government work means we can just hire more inspectors. But we do have quality control checks and we do get made aware of issues.l, at least in my city. We take regular continuing ed classes and courses with engineered product manufacturers. I realize that anything I say will result in you lobbing even more baseless accusations at an industry as a whole, to which all I can say is that, like with ANYTHING else, you have good and you have bad workers. But nobody is taking cuts. An inspector in SF was recently arrested and out in jail for doing that. And inspectors do get sued. The amount of liability we actually carry is immense. Now, our job isn't to check EVERYRHING. I check foundations and frames. Anything outside of that is the job of guys like Sy. It's literally impossible for us to check everything a home inspector checks. So anyways, enjoy your day and thank you for almost certainly not reading this reply to your cut and pasted comment.
Exactly. The banks always get their (?) money. Great system of checks and balances they have.
Don't worry guys, the consumer will start seeing the benefits of a profit driven system, any second now. Yup, any minute, the system that prioritizes wealth extraction and hoarding will pay big time for consumers.
Amazingly my 1946 home doesn't have mystery leaks. Just like new cars, everything new is JUNK.
You are doing great work. Never seen anything like this. Our builders up here in WI are pro’s who take pride in their work. Of course there’s bad apples but they get caught before inspections.
I’d be suing the city and the builder at that point.
The government is useless. Exposing this, like you are, is the best course of action. We have to correct these builders by NOT giving them our business.
"The Government is useless . . ." People want their taxes cut and small government, but somehow expect government services to improve. And when they don't improve, they are sadly convinced that the solution is more tax cuts. It's like withholding water and light from a plant and expecting it to thrive. It's not going to happen.
Because they keep deregulating and creating loopholes and short staffing can’t deal with overwhelming demand so half assery commences.
“The government is useless” 100% sir. I’m fortunate to have learned than early in life. Some people here actually think you can just give them more taxes and increase regulations and suddenly the government will save us all. Sad. Maybe study some history.
Contractor now days suck, just did a remodel to my home and he missed so many things!!! They just suck!!!
I live next-door to a house millennium builders built in southern Indiana. They kept trying to cross the property line, tried to cut trees down behind my back after we’d already agreed which trees they could cut down from my yard. Then, they ran the drainage hose off their back gutter under the property line to empty right at my fence out of spite when I did not let them cut the tree down that they tried to cut down behind my back.
You are so clearly good at what you do......and they hate you for it.
At this point I'm buying a pre 2020 home or better yet I might as well build it all by myself with no HOA. I don't care how much more money and time it would cost. I want to choose which carpenters, electricians , drywallers, plumbers/HVAC, etc. are on the job.
There's plenty pre 2020 shadiness, too. Anything we used to call "Poppin Fresh" or "McMansion" around here post 2006*. I used to do census and nonprofit canvassing that wasn't related to home quality at all, but just on the doorstep or invited into the living room in so many houses I could see so much already falling apart that it didn't bode well for anything else. Certain neighborhoods so new they were still building, and I'd see roofs where you could see the gutter system wouldn't work from the sidewalk (especially if it had rained and there was just a pool on the weird multi-slope roof, or minilake against the edge of the house sure that was great for the foundation). Or lack of attic insulation in Michigan winter = melting water = freezing into HUGE icicles. Or doorbells broken on homes under 5 years old in 200k+ neighborhoods. So many broken doorbells in the same style in so many neighborhoods. Yeah little thing but when the builders cheap out on the -doorbell-... it don't bode well.
*Maybe earlier but that's when I started working knocking on upwards of 50 doors a day, and I have a feeling the housing bubble work quality from builders/contractors might be similar to problems since pandemic...
Sorry so long lol I'm finally starting to consider buying so been thinking on this and binging this channel bc knowledge is power etc. Honestly I might just go much earlier builds. Might have to deal with lead abatement and general old stuff to fix, probably a smaller yard, but I feel like a solid structure is the most important. And at least around here the newer builds and solid older can be price competitive. Not for me, they're all too damn expensive, but with each other lol.
@@jenelaina5665 I know a lot of carpenters left after the housing crash and never came back.
It seems post 2020 things were bad but got a lot worse. At least back in the '90s you could buy a cheap new home for a cheap price. Now you buy a cheap styrofoam home for a luxury price.
My house is from 1994, built by Pulte, it's a complete piece of shit, even the 2x4s are rounded off and have tree bark on them.
@@jenelaina5665 the older builds (pre mcmansion 1980s and before) can have amazing architectural character, shed contemporarys and splitlevels are better than any newbuild ranch with no character
@@krystiansieracki6204 yeah but even then, the house still looks a lot better than most new builds
Daily comment thanking cy for his diligence
And although it is pretty bad as far as new construction goes I'm pretty sure there's somebody already appointed to that their job not so much your guys but you know of a local government supposed to really check on things type away because I'm here to tell you the building inspection department in my area at least the really big one If any of this was stuff was ever brought up they would absolutely have some explaining to do you know of like who inspected that roof that the pallet of shingles fell through and that kind of stuff yeah I totally know for a fact since I used to work there that heads would be a rolling!
That's really funny that she showed that shot of the two pieces of pexA by far in my opinion are absolutely the best for pex But I can't really imagine that being too much more than a year old and the fact that it seems as far as manufacturers instructions it was installed properly in my mind that would mean one thing and one thing only and it has nothing to do with the people who are installing it?
Oh and the last part of that the reason I said that is cuz when I've seen when that happens the reason it's happening is because somebody's getting paid for it to happen!😂😮😢 I mean can you imagine at the safety meeting every 8 days that you're supposed to be having that you know maybe it would be brought up that oh hey guys be on the lookout for PEX that fails early seeing how it is that you know you know they're cheap I mean I couldn't imagine okay guys we're going back to strictly copper no plastic whatsoever coppers the new name of the game yeah that's never going to happen!
@@shockingshorts8043Yeah, that's unbelievable, that should NEVER happen ANYWHERE! They NEVER should have placed a pallet of tiles on the roof unless they reinforced the area to transfer the load directly to a bearing wall!
Why are you thanking him for his lies and manipulations for views and attention?
Damn bro, you are the best of the best!
It's scary how much of this gets by other inspectors, AND double scary that this is the quality of the builders in your area and who knows where else.
Definitely want a consult with you before i buy new.
I honestly want a house with removable walls, like a space station or some kind of industrial equipment. Too many things I can't see myself.
My house was built in the 70s and they didn't put any grounding outlets in our kitchen so all our appliances are plugged in with adapters (dangerous fire hazard) because we could never afford to have our outlets rewired properly. You're always supposed to use grounded outlets anywhere with water,outside, bathroom and kitchen. Only one single grounded outlet in our bathroom and nowhere else in the house.
Got news for you my dear friend in US like in any other country money is more important than anything else like ethics. quality honesty and hard work
This is what happens when you let the subcontractors run the job. An onsite general goes a long way.
Its what happens when you have strict deadlines. The builders probably did some shotty work to meet the deadline with the intent to pay for that work in court but still keep the housing development as a customer. Court cases between companies aren't like court cases between individuals where both sides will forever despise each other and never work together again.
Saw this a lot , on places built with Mexican labor. Something to think about.
This is typical American-made stuff, just look at Boeing, Stellantis, Ford, GM, and Dr Horton.
Thank you Cy.
This is why I will be doing the addition on my house myself.
Itis an inspection problem. I’m a builder and you have to get inspections several times, sometimes over a dozen, before they’ll let anyone moving in. Structural and concrete inspections. Framing, electrical, mechanical, at different levels of rough and finish construction. Plus banks will have their own assessors if a loan is involved. These situations are quite rare and have very specific reasons why it happened, usually an inspector in need of firing for simply not doing their job.
Maybe your company does it right but there are plenty of crooks out there.
@@davidbeauchemin1840 That is in the consumer to give money to a good product. Can’t get give people money and blindly expect them to not rip you off. Not knowing will put a target on you for those that are looking to rip you off
The old saying "It's hard to fine good help these days" still applies.
That's "find good help." Why would you fine them??
It always was, my house is over fifty years old and the electricity is a nightmare, no grounded outlets in the kitchen (dangerous) and they painted all the air vents shut on our air conditioning. Construction workers have always been super lazy and cut corners while acting like the toughest dudes, but they're as lazy as anyone else when it comes down to it and cut any corners they can, and that's not a new thing. You know you don't even need any qualifications or education at all? My friend is an absolute ditz who messes up everything she touches, and all she had to do was stand outside an office at 4 am until someone looking for temps pulls up and asks who wants a construction job, and they give her tools and just point at something and tell her to do it. No training, no education, it's been common practice for years, there are entire organizations just for people to come and hire anyone off the street because it's cheaper, someone with no training just signs a clipboard and the first job that pops up, they get it, and these organizations have been around for decades. They gave my friend a jackhammer, that's psychopathic, she's a full blown stoner with severe anxiety who spaces out and disassociates and forgets where she is and what she's doing, but sure, just hand her a jackhammer, what could go wrong? They're lucky she didn't hurt herself or someone else.
Hold them accountable by putting the company out of business. Government licensure is a trap that screws up a free market and increases taxes.
There is no "free market" and taxes need to be higher on those with the wealth.
@@interstellarphred another trap....the ones with the wealth create loopholes to not pay taxes. U are correct we don't have a free market currently....which the wealthy hate as well. It will get much worse before change will happen for the good or bad.
No one should have to pay taxes the way things are these days. Our government just wastes it or sends it to foreign countries.
I feel Cy is definitely becoming more militant in his approach to calling out cowboys
Wow. Something needs to be done about these incompetent builders, contractors and crooked inspectors
Not every builder is like this. Shopping around and getting to see their past work goes a long ways.
"not every builder is like this". MF please! every building made in the 21st century is make of toothpicks and paper mache
Always thought Toll Brothers was a good builder!😮
That's what they sell themselves as. A premium home builder. It's obvious that they don't have a internal system for inspection of the homes during the home building process.
I'm sure they started the business with good intentions. I think greed plays a large part of the poor quality homes we see coming from so many home builders.
There are no good National builders. None.
They are the worst. Pulte is also horrible.
Burger Dregs construction
The absolute worst... only care about the bottom line. It starts from the person up top and runs all the way down.
Toll Brothers sounds more like a funeral home than a building company.
This makes me feel better about my 100 year old home.
Most new homes by commercial builders are tresh...... my house was one of the mass produced homes built in 1952. Super solid and well built
Its not only the builder, its obvious that the whack ass contractors dont care. The contractors should be held accountable as well.
You can get inspectors that check the building at three stages of the build to catch things before it's too late. In this day and age, it's with the cost.
Those buildings cost around $600,000 by the way
... if I ever have a house built, either I'm doing my own walkthroughs at each stage PLUS hiring an Inspector, or I'm building it myself. I... don't really wanna build it myself, though.
My house was built in 1960 and I am thinking I need full inspection and fix any discrepancies.
I'm not a plumber, but all I hear is how good uponor is. I wonder what they did to cause the leaking fitting.
To all you people moving to Denver, don’t buy a house in the Stapleton area. When workers get paid by piece work, they get as much done as quickly as possible. Quality suffers. I’ve heard and seen so much shoddy work out there.
they want theses homes built very fast. it’s all about quantity over quality
How about holding local county and city inspectors accountable? Sorry that insulation is 100% unacceptable and the water drain line. Horrendous. These builders need to be put out of business.
What a nightmare for the homeowners.