Tighten licensing requirements. She also thinks the state should require license applicants to have construction experience. Make it easier for home buyers to sue negligent builders. Earle wants the state to reconsider a proposal that would let homeowners collect legal fees in all cases where they win lawsuits against home builders. Builders' signs beckon home buyers at Williams Road and Brawley School Road near Mooresville.
Some home builders disagree.
We need to encourage Homebuyers to select their Builder as carefully as they determine the type home they want. It is difficult to take a number of anecdotal situations and use them to characterize the entire industry. They also might back increasing builder fees to beef up the recovery fund or to increase the state licensing board's budget. Requiring experience of builders isn't a bad idea, industry officials say, but the trick is to determine how much and what type of experience is needed. Mike Carpenter, chief lobbyist for the N.C. Home Builders Association, said it wouldn't be fair to make home builders pay attorneys fees unless everyone else who loses lawsuits is required to do the same.