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> In housing, usually stories like these are not possible, because there is a minimal - legal or other - standard that housing needs to comply to.

“My sweet summer child”

Housing has a lot of regulation, and also a lot of dirty tricks to cut corners without the buyer having recourse (and it’s usually minor enough problem thatvit’s not worth fightig), and building in specific ways so the owner comes back to the same contractor with a high probability.

I remember once a contractor explaining “we’re the only shop in the region that can use this super fancy system”, and it’s really a way to declare clients will come bck to them when it breaks