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May 122014
 

discriminationHostile Work Environment.  Retaliation.  Disparate Treatment.  Charges may stand against KB Home the U.S. District Court in Texas has ruled. In this discrimination lawsuit, African American sales personnel say they had to work twice as hard as white counterparts and still made less money.  “Plaintiffs allege that KB Home employees told  them they were assigned to the lower income communities because they “did not fit the demographic’” of the higher income communities.  kbhomediscriminationsuit

May 012014
 

KBLEMONKB Home is on a roll – building in over forty locations in Florida.  Meanwhile, houses continue to leak and re-leak all over the state.  Florida consumers seem to be on their own, holding the bag for defective structures, loss of value, stigma.  It’s a nightmare of epic proportions.  State Agencies keep passing the buck.  KB Homes Suck?  I think it’s the other way around – KB Home has told the consumer to Suck Some Very Sour Lemons .    read more…

Apr 012014
 

gavelAnother Employee suit filed in North Carolina, Davis claimed he was fired for reporting numerous infractions by KB Home employees, including various managers’ demeaning and harassing conduct toward female employees as well as numerous fraudulent and unethical financial transactions in violation of the civil and criminal laws of South Carolina.”  read suit on Justia

Jan 162014
 

2peasinapod2 Peas in a Pod!  Is this why the Attorney General’s investigation of KB Home just drags on and on and on?  Attorney General (Pay for Play Pam as she’s been called) florida-home-builders-endorse-pam-bondi-for-attorney-general-pam-bondi-for-attorney-general for re-election. pam-bondi-endorsed-by-latin-builders-association.    pam-bondi-builder-donations      Rick Scott Endorsed by the Florida Commercial Contractors.

Oct 182013
 

shhh Shh! Too late! Someone has let the cat out of the bag and lawsuits are springing up all over the place.    Florida and other states have “Right to Cure Laws” that force buyers into arbitration.  But homeowners have sued for fraud & inducement to get around this and whistle blowers are telling all .read more

Oct 092013
 

    heaernoevil            DBPR – SEES NO EVIL?  The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is the state licensing agency for the construction industry.  With hundreds of complaints, two whistle blowers, missing hurricane straps, and life threatening dangerous defects , the DBPR still can’t find “probable cause” to take action against KB Home! read more..

Oct 092013
 

U.S. CONGRESSMAN, BILL POSEY,   contacted the Criminal Division of the poseyDepartment of Justice on behalf of a KB Home owner.   The DOJ sent the complaint to the Miami office of the FBI.  Anyone with complaints might want to forward their issues to the Miami Division of the FBI and reference this letter.  The FBI will not confirm an investigation. Congressman Posey to DOJ to FBI

Sep 152013
 

bad“Production” Building at the lowest bid is bound to result in problems.  It came back to bite KB Homes.  Builder Magazine (06/28/2013) looks at KB Home’s building practices that led to thousands of leaking and defective homes in Florida and nationwide.   Builder Magazine: Construction Defects Rob KB Home of Profit & another story in as-construction-accelerates-will-defects-follow

Aug 302013
 

paydayworkersAUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The Workers Defense Project had to hold a protest for a group of construction workers who labored on several of KB Home’s premier properties in South Austin….Wage theft for low-wage workers has a profound impact on working families… KB Home Refuses to Pay Low Wage Workers  and here kb home workers await payday 

Aug 292013
 

not welcome

KB Home sues anyone who maligns their good reputation.  These two towns say they are more like notorious.    Wolf at the Door? KB Home coming to Montgomery County  – “Your board will have to ask itself what will happen if you let a builder with a known bad reputation build in your county.” Montgomery Sentinel, 2006,    KB Home faces fight over large housing project in Scotts Valley 2006 Valley Business Journal – “So strong is Mayor Agular’s aversion to KB…” I am very distraught that they have come back to us.  …when we get down to K & B, says Councilman Barrett. “Their reputation precedes them and we are not real happy with their reputation.  They built homes in Scotts Valley before, and we had a ton of problems with them.  I can’t say if they’ve changed their ways, but it definitely makes us wary.