Mirror Lake, Villa Rica GA 30180

Welcome Mirror Lake Residents,

America's Home Builder is America's Nightmare. This is no longer poor workmanship, this is a scandal! Does your entry door leak when it rains? Does your basement walls leak when it heavily rains? Then your home is one of the many homes that Ryland built incorrectly. We the residents of Mirror Lake have gotten together in an effort to gather other residents who have the same problems with their homes. The problem is that the homes are LEAKING. Please check ALL of your entry ways including your front door, back doors (deck), and your basement doors (if applicable) for leaks, mildew, mold, cracks, etc. Please also check to see if your garage ceiling has bubbles, or ridges. We had a neighbor's garage ceiling cave in due to a lack of Ryland Homes (the Builder) foundation.

For a listing of what to look for in your leaky homes, how to involve yourself in this battle, or to get an update on our progress please continue to visit us here online. At this website you can read emails/statements of testimonies of residents homes and see pictures. We are asking residents with the same problem to email us a testimony and contact information if they would like to be involved in the legal action against Ryland.

On this website you can give your comments on the opinion page or email us your testimony. Even if you do not wish to be legally involved we would appreciate any support and information that would help so that Ryland does not continue to build leaky homes that are costing residents thousands of dollars to fix, so that their entry doors do not fall in due to wood rot, and cracks in entry frame.

Also, please email me pictures of your leaky/damaged homes so that I can add them to the site.

For a listing of what to look for in your leaky homes click on the "Leaky List page".

To read emails/statements of testimonies of residents homes click on the "Testimony" page. (Note: Original Email address have been omitted for the privacy of our residents.)

Leave a comment on the "Voice your opinion" page!

This website was created as an effort to keep everyone on the same page. This is a group effort that benefits us all. Thank you for coming forth and allowing all of us to work together to get the justice that we deserve from Ryland Homes and our legal system.

Sincerely,

Group of Concerned Homeowners

Email Rylandleakyhomes

Update as of April, 2007:

Thanks for listing your issues with our site. We are still gathering information and ask the community to network and ask any of their lawyer friends, or someone in Mirror Lake might be a lawyer and ask what are the next steps we can take to speed up the process of a possible class action suit. Thanks.

Update as of December 26, 2006: Click on "What else Ryland did" page to view sites to visit about Ryland Defective homes.

Just letting you know we got all of your emails, and that we posted it online in the testimony section. For the month of January we would like to plan on getting together in February (all of the homeowners- just to network and discuss steps we can take until legal action is feasible) Thanks!

Ryland builds homes on lead contaminated soil_

http://www.epa.gov/region5/orc/enfactions/enfactions2003/law-tsca.htm

“Region 5 signs Administrative Order on Consent with The Ryland Group, Inc.
On April 14, 2003, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency contacted Region 5 and requested EPA assistance in conducting a potential time-critical removal action at the Lexington Manor subdivision in Liberty Township, Ohio. U.S. EPA undertook sampling and analysis that confirmed the presence of lead contamination in many of the yards in the 26-acre subdivision. EPA signed an action memorandum for this site on June 3, 2003, and began negotiations with both the developer and builder of this subdivision. Ryland, the builder of the subdivision, purchased the property from developer Lexington Manor, Inc., after Lexington Manor’s environmental consultant stated that the property was safe for residential development. The subdivision was built on the site of a former skeet-shooting range and the lead and arsenic contamination that have been documented in the soil are from the lead pellets that comprise the skeet. In the Administrative Order on Consent, signed on August 14, 2003, Ryland has agreed to remove and properly manage all soil, sediment, and debris contaminated with lead at greater than 400 ppm. Ryland will also remediate arsenic associated with lead shot to site background levels. A private lawsuit is pending in which the homeowners have sued Lexington, Ryland and the environmental consultant. In settlement of that lawsuit, Ryland has agreed to purchase back many of the homes currently occupied at the subdivision, which are valued at $200,000 to $300,000. The estimated cost for completing this removal is anywhere between $2 million and $20 million, depending upon the volume. That figure is exclusive of the money Ryland has spent to buy back the houses from the homeowners.
Contact: Susan Prout, primary contact, at 312-353-1029; Larry Kyte, additional contact, at 312-886-4245”

Fox5 Atlanta Blog about Ryland Homes

On November 15, 2006 we have placed a comment on http://community.myfoxatlanta.com/ regarding Ryland Leaky Homes. We have recently sent out letters to local newstations along with emails regarding Ryland building deficiencies. We plan to have the original warranty booklet scanned and emailed to not only the lawyer but also posted online for viewing by mid January if not before. We understand that this is a slow process but with everyone's efforts and networking we're hoping to get results as a collective group instead of facing a giant like Ryland on our own. Thanks. To view Fox5 Atlanta Blog comment visit the link: Ryland Leaky HOmes | Wed. Nov. 15, 1:52 PM

Rate Your Builder.Info

Please visit www.Rateyourbuilder.info and post comments about Ryland homes. Our comment can be seen on this site, it states: {Not only was I overcharged by the builder but my entire subdivision along with nearby subdivisions suffer as homeowners due to the poor workmanship that Ryland Homes provided. Visit www.freewebs.com/rylandleakyhomes to see pictures of basements leaking, front doors raining in with water, entire front doors rotting due to the wrong materials Ryland intentionally put up in order to cut cost. Because of their size and legal team they build CRAPPY HOMES and then disappear with your money. Their worst work can be seen at the website. Homeowners had to come out of their own pockets thousands of dollars to repair what Ryland home should hav done in the first place, which is build a home the correct way especially if you're spending a quarter of a million dollars on it!!!www.FREEWEBS.COM/RYLANDLEAKYHOMES Thanks!!}

Update as of Oct. 30, 2006: I have sent emails to the Associated Press, AJC (cynthia@ajc.com, mbraykovich@ajc.com, and hunger@ajc.com) , and prnewswire.com. We are seeking other press related venues in regards to wanting to know how we can go about making it public what Ryland did. If anybody knows someone in the media who can help us out or at least point us in the right direction, please call or email us. Thanks!

Update as of Oct. 17, 2006: We are currently still collecting information, pictures, warranties and testimonies related to the leaky homes. If you have any hard copies you would like to send to us you can mail it to Sandra Young at P.O Box 1866, Villa Rica GA 30180 or email it to us at SandraGYoung@yahoo.com. Thank you!

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Mirror Lake, Villa Rica GA 30180

Update as of April, 2007: