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10/25/2015 | Real Estate Blog
As exciting as it can be to find what you think is the home of your dreams after a long and heretofore fruitless search, it’s important to understand that there are still a host of important tasks that must be completed before you call the moving company.
10/24/2015 | Real Estate Blog
For years, Philadelphia’s neighbor across the river, Camden, has suffered from unprecedented levels of urban blight, poverty and, of course, crime. Indeed, the city was named the most violent in the U.S. in the not-so-distant past.
10/23/2015 | Real Estate Blog
We are finishing up our discussion of a case from outside of Pennsylvania over damage caused by Chinese drywall. In our Oct. 19 post we talked about the extent of the drywall issue and how hard it was for affected homeowners to secure compensation for their losses. The case we have been talking about is not about a civil action against the drywall manufacturer, but a couple’s attempt to convince their property insurance company that the loss they suffered — […]
10/21/2015 | Construction Blog, Real Estate Blog
We’re talking about an appellate decision in Florida that shows just how tough it can be to fight insurance companies over construction defects and faulty building materials. The construction material in this case is Chinese drywall that turned out, as we explained in our last post, to contain high levels of toxic substances. Thousands of homeowners, most of them on the East Coast, suffered health problems or discovered damaged wiring caused by sulfur fumes.
10/19/2015 | Construction Blog, Real Estate Blog
Pennsylvania may not have felt the truly disastrous effects of the Chinese drywall debacle as badly as other states. Our state had reported just more than a dozen incidents as of March 2014, while more than 2,000 Florida property owners had reported issues with the product by then. Still, we noted an appellate decision — in Florida — that illustrates a point about insurance and construction material defects that could easily hold true in any zip code.
