May 19, 2009
Shut the door on Bob Perry and his TRCC
The Texas Residential Construction Commission has been, since it's inception, an absolute disaster. So why is Rep. McClendon trying to save it?
In response to the concerns of the Sunset Commission, House Bill 2295 by Representative McClendon (D-San Antonio) has been filed. According to the rules of the Sunset Commission, if this “sunset” bill is not signed into law, the TRCC will be abolished. The bill has passed the House and is currently lingering in the Senate with time running out in the legislative session. ... HB2295 continues to deceive. The bill calls for licensing of home builders, but exempts over 28,000 builders currently registered with the TRCC. The licensing oversight will be controlled by the TRCC an agency with 6 years of failure, instead of by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation with 100 years of outstanding service and experience in oversight. And the requirements for licensing are nothing more than paying a fee, taking 8 hours of training, and passing a test administered by the inexperienced TRCC.The mandatory State Sponsored Inspection and Resolution Process (SIRP), a process to help mediate complaints, continues to be a convoluted, complicated, legal nightmare that requires legal assistance to navigate. The bill offers an optional, extremely expensive mediation process chock full of legal loopholes that will do more harm than good for the consumer. The bill also reduces the time required to complete the SIRP, but does nothing to reduce its overwhelming complexity and legal ramifications.
John Coby has more over at Bay Area Houston... it's time to put this miserable excuse for a regulatory agency to death and give homeowners full access to the courts.
Posted by mcblogger at May 19, 2009 09:00 PM
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For several years I had a license with TRCC. Not because I was a new home builder, but because I made over $20,000 of repairs to a home before I flipped it to first time home buyers. TRCC is a cruel joke on consumers. Let's just go to court over shoddy construction work and forget this farce.
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at May 19, 2009 11:12 PM
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