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and Video Courtesy of Action News Jax Channel 47
By Kevin Clark
Published
January 6, 2018
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JACKSONVILLE - More than 18 months later, a
condominium community off Beach Boulevard still hasn’t received
settlement money from the nation’s largest home builder.
Last year, a jury
found that D.R. Horton was negligent when building the
Heron’s Landing community.
Action News Jax saw some of the damage firsthand on
Wednesday.
The 240-unit community was built between 2005 and 2009.
Since that time, homeowners have claimed construction
defects have led to cracked stucco, along with leaking
roofs and windows.
“The leaks come down. They get in the wall. They cause
mold, which causes a lot of remission we have to do,”
said John Sampson, president of the Heron’s Landing
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The company was ordered to pay $9.6 million in
damages, with interest accruing by the day.
But Heron’s Landing will have to wait, as D.R. Horton is appealing the
verdict.
“Until we can actually
recover on the lawsuit, we can’t do a lot of the repairs
that need to be done,” said Sampson.
In court documents, attorneys for the home builder argue
that the trial wasn’t fair because evidence of damage wasn’t
“scientifically valid.”
In the last two months, Action News Jax has been
investigating allegations of shoddy construction by the
company.
We reached out to D.R. Horton for comment on this story. As
of late Wednesday evening, we had not heard back. |
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