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Martin

After months of fighting with the builder to fix a significant number of defects with our new home, I found out today the company has been put into liquidation. My only recommendation is to avoiding Raymond Walter Lorenzen, trading under any building company name in the Auckland Region, he is dishonest, negligent in his supervision of his subcontractors and incompetent in his ability to manage residential build projects.
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RR

We’re in a similar boat. House is just over 2 years old and we’re still chasing up defects to be fixed and refixed, and refixed for the 3rd time. I want to name the company but defamation comes to mind, so wont go there.
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Martin

Hi RR. I dont think it really matters. The law and contracts all support the builders and you are left with having spent your hard earned money on a home that “just doesnt feel right now”. Interestingly while i am trying to fix all of the issues the builder has left me with, I hear he is in Fiji on holiday.
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Martin

Hope you work it all out. Which region are you in?
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Chris

Hi Martin, Just thought I would mention that in January 2015 the Building Regulations were amended to try to ensure that building contracts are a bit fairer to the client (or at least help the client to negotiate a fairer contract). Obviously you can Google details, but an extract of things now required are: Prescribed minimum price Prescribed disclosure information and prescribed checklist Prescribed content for residential building contracts for prescribed minimum price or more Prescribed clauses deemed to be included in oral residential building contracts for prescribed minimum price or more Prescribed clauses deemed to be included in incomplete written residential building contracts for prescribed minimum price or more Prescribed information and documentation to be supplied on completion of building work It’s worthwhile to study this, especially the ‘deemed to be included’ clauses, which I assume would apply to any contract over $30K signed after Jan 2015.
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