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After following Lennar Corporation for the past year and keeping up with the latest issues I think I have found a typical connection between all of them. The land. It would seem to me that Lennar targets land fills, bombing ranges, expansive soil sites, and now…Department of Defense military sites, to build on or near by. You can only imagine there is some overpaid corporate Einstein that brings these ideas to the table as a profitable investment. The sad part is that Lennar actually goes through with building and investing in these properties. At some point you have to imagine what kind of sales pitch you have to throw out there to convince anyone to build on top of LIVE BOMBS. Seriously, how can you sway a sales pitch to the corporate staff avoiding the dangers to potential clients (which are the homeowners in these situations) and persuading anyone with the equivelance of a 3rd grade education to build on top of these conditions. It just makes me wonder who is sitting around the Lennar corporate table during these meetings in which things of this nature develop and progress into a reality. Lets take a looks at a few examples shall we?

Vista Lakes Orlando Fl.
U.S. Corps of Engineers detonates unexploded World War II bombs discovered beneath an Orlando, Florida neighborhood. The discovery that the school and hundreds of nearby homes were built on a bombing range has led to homeowner lawsuits and widespread fear among parents of students at the Odyssey Middle School, where the bomb below was detonated recently after being discovered beneath the school running track. Source

Hampshire Homes Miramar, Fl
Four months after telling CNN they would "do whatever it takes" to correct problems caused when a buried trash pile became a sinkhole, a Florida construction company apparently has done nothing to compensate homeowners affected by the watery pit in front of their homes

The football field-size sinkhole began opening last March in front of 20 houses in the Hampshire Homes subdivision of Miramar outside Miami. At the insistence of Broward County officials, builder Lennar Homes returned to the site and began removing mangled tires, twisted pieces of metal and other debris from the pit. In all, Lennar excavated 250 truckloads of trash and construction debris, but admitted no wrong-doing. Source

Hutto Parke Hutto, Tx
Like other settlers, Hanson tilled the land under the tall grasses of the Blackland Prairie to reveal the black dirt below. After years of trial and error, the settlers learned how to work with the soil, which expands with just a little water and dries hard as cement without it. ...Many who bought homes in Hutto Parke are asking their builder to buy the homes back because of cracking walls and foundations, caused partly by the fluctuating soil. Hearing that, Hanson said, he feels justified in farming the land, not building on it. Source

Imagine purchasing a brand new home, and within months of moving in it starts to fall apart. A viewer contacted News 8 and said that's exactly what's happening to dozens of homes in the Lennar Homes neighborhood of Huttoparke in Williamson County. "They told me when I first moved in that it was just cosmetic," homeowner Amy Orbison said. Neighbors complained about cracked foundations, doors that don't shut, popped nails and faulty sheetrock. Orbison said at first there was mold in the house. Lennar made repairs, but the problems didn't stop.

"I complained about nail pops in ceiling, where the nails are actually coming out, gaps, windows leaking," she said. "I think they're trying to save a dollar. I think they're going to do everything they can to cut corners, cheapest labor they can find, and sell it at the highest price they can sell it. And they don't care what happens to the homeowners once they're in there, it's your problem. They don't care." Source

To date Lennar has repaired well over 120 homes in this community.

Heritage Fields El Toro, Ca.
In 2005 Lennar purchased the former El Toro Marine Corps base--3,700 acres for $649 Million. "The Park District provides a unique opportunity to blend the edges of the Great Park with a variety of residential and recreation uses. Specific components of the envisioned Park District include a golf course with an academy and teaching center; training and show facilities; a working agricultural center and a culinary academy, to mention a few." Source

Lennar's Heritage Fields property prints depict these sites as being within the "El Toro Wildlife Refuge". Source Very interesting that there is no disclaimer to the past uses by DoD for these lands. But then again it would be hard to market homes in excess of a million dollars overlooking a former toxic dump. Previously the land has testing positive for toxic contamination. "Contamination from a hazardous-waste dump on the former El Toro Marine base threatens to complicate the Navy's plan to auction off a portion of the base for new homes this summer. The closed 9-acre dump was used for discarded construction material...Soil samples taken at the old construction dump showed arsenic, petroleum hydrocarbons, lead and benzopyrene levels that exceeded federal limits for industrial and residential development, Navy tests showed." Source: LA Times, April 6, 2003 "El Toro Auction May Hit a Snag"

I predict this will be another blunder for Lennar Corporation. You can bet if things do go south Lennar will be standing idly by conveying that they are willing to do the right thing all the while admitting to no "wrong doing".