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I believe Francis Furtado is trying to sidestep the issue. Here he is quoted as saying, "McGuire's home is also scheduled to be inspected early next month, Furtado said. If necessary, Reynen & Bardis will appeal the earlier HBW report on the McGuire home, and have the warranty company perform another inspection, Furtado said. 'HBW is responsible for taking care of these things. ... Somebody's going to have to fix the house.'" HBW is a warrantee insurance company for Reynen & Bardis. We don't care whether Reynen and Bardis is able to recoup the cost of remediation from their own insurance company, we just want our home fixed. We were unaware that our next meeting with Reynen & Bardis will be on the subject of our structural defects, however we welcome the dialog. The meeting next month was to address our one-year report in which we included other items, including the cracking, which up to now they have been unwilling to discuss with us. Another point that I think is being overlooked is the fact that Reynen & Bardis has the same engineer as we do. Francis is quoted in a recent Sacramento Bee article as saying "Furtado said his firm intends to repair those homes, but McGuire, whose house was the first on the street to have problems, has not allowed workers to fix it as they see fit. He has hired an engineer to make recommendations about how the house should be repaired and said Reynen & Bardis won't abide by those suggestions." The engineer we hired was Youngdahl Consulting, the very same firm that Reynen & Bardis uses today. Why would Reynen & Bardis not abide by the suggestions made by their own engineer? I believe it is because we have paid for the report. In doing so Reynen & Bardis cannot hide information from us. We paid for it, so we have the right to the entire document. We even hired another structural engineer for a second opinion and he agreed with the Youngdahl assessment. What information is Reynen & Bardis hiding from other homeowners who do not have the right to view the report since they did not pay for their own geotechnical engineer? If Reynen and Bardis has nothing to hide, then I invite them to come fix our home based their engineer's report. Also in the Sac Bee article, Francis is quoted as saying "Furtado said he hopes the next batch of homes will have fewer cracks because the soil they are being built on is less expansive.". This is not about hopes and wishes; soil management is a well-developed science. The problem is a failure of project management, due diligence and, in my opinion, negligence. We all have a vested interest in the quality of the homes built anywhere in Rancho Murieta, even the new homes that have yet to built and that Reynen & Bardis hopes will have less cracks. One last note,
we would like to thank all of the members of the Rancho Murieta community
who have contacted us. Your support has been wonderful and it just
shows us that even though we may have an issue with our house we love
our community and the people who make it so wonderful to live here.
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