Scott woman pursuing lawsuit against company that built her home

SCOTT, La. (KLFY) – A Scott woman says she’s discouraged with the enterprise she’s employed to establish her dwelling. She claims the setting up business is refusing to fix beauty and structural issues they promised to when she shut on her property, nevertheless, the enterprise is disputing her claims.

Amidst her struggle with the construction enterprise, Tamika Collins has hired a attorney, who is now threatening to consider the business to court docket. Collins suggests she closed on her dwelling with Shiver’s Property Builders in March, but considering that then, no a single has mounted the matters she needed fixed in the residence. She promises her property is unlivable and is now pursuing lawful action. Shiver’s suggests they tackled all her issues.

She pointed out several troubles in her household, which includes doors that do not thoroughly shut, damaged locks, unfinished moldings, nails in the walls, flooring starting up to buckle, and damaged home windows. She claims she has a myriad of challenges with her new residence. “The full property requires to be repaired. To me, it is not livable,” she explained.

Collins states though the residence has complications, there’s yet another concern. Her dwelling was robbed. “During the time that Shiver’s was intended to be fixing my dwelling, somebody came into the residence and stole from me. They took TVs, they took clothes, they took my jewelry, they took purses, tennis sneakers. They took more than $100,000 really worth of stuff from me,” suggests Collins. She submitted a law enforcement report, even though no a person has been arrested or billed.

A agent of Shiver’s states that they are mindful of the theft. They say their subcontractors did not split into the house, and Shiver’s preset every little thing the robbers broke.

In response to Collins’ statements that Shiver’s is not correcting issues in her residence, a spokesperson suggests right before Collins shut, she hired a private inspector to do the household inspection, and everything on that listing was done. They also say proper now, Collins does not have any genuine warranty things that need to have to be adjusted. Collins disagrees. “What I would like to see occur next is that my home get finished, and I can shift on with my daily life,” she siad.

Collins’ law firm states that he has submitted a claim beneath the New Residence Guarantee Act, a Louisiana regulation that governs the warranties for new dwelling development. He suggests he’s also despatched a record of problems that inspectors have discovered to Shiver’s, though they have but to react. He says the future step is to just take the company to court docket.