Opinion ID: 2626433
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: UPA Violations

Text: {19} For Fleetwood's UPA violations, the trial court awarded Plaintiffs $9,500 in actual damages for misrepresentations regarding the garage and decks, and an additional $6,220 in actual damages for Defendant's misrepresentations pertaining to the failure to deliver a custom home, additional utility charges, inconvenience and aggravation, and the sale of insurance. The Court of Appeals reversed all of the additional award except for $1,700 for Fleetwood's failure to deliver a custom home. Chavarria, 2005-NMCA-082, ¶¶ 24-26, 137 N.M. 783, 115 P.3d 799. Plaintiffs do not challenge the reversed awards on appeal. Therefore, Plaintiffs are entitled to the two surviving UPA awards: $9,500 for the garage and decks and $1,700 for Fleetwood's failure to deliver a custom home. Plaintiffs do not have to elect damages on the $1,700 UPA award for failure to deliver a custom home. This award is separate from the fraud and conversion awards and thus survives independent of the awards given for those causes of action.