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Of course well keep you updated on this story and well have much more on gma tomorrow. For now a Consumer Affairs story. Homeowners alleging their brandnew homes turned out to be riddled with troubles. Tonight we take another look at abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross and local stations investigate reports of shoddy construction and a variety of other newhome problems. Nick sagan, nice to meet you. Reporter in the movie the blind side, actress Sandra Bullock plays the owner of a fabulous house. In real life the actress ended up in court. Tell us how the case is going . I cant. Reporter suing her builder over huge defects in her multimillion dollar texas mansion she famously later bulldozed to the ground. In suburban washington, d. C. , the owner of this new home has a hole in her foundation and a snake that moved in underneath. Up and down you hear the same things . Reporter the people in this new subdivision in virginia say they know the feeling. With greatlooking houses on the outside, a long list of problems on the inside. Very upsetting. Its the most expensive purchase any of us are going to make. Reporter it happened to simone engle of birmingham, alabama, whose 400,000 brandnew home had bouncy, creaky floorboards. Its like playing music. Reporter that had to be ripped up. And a messedup draining system fixed by the builder only after abc news got involved. Issue after issue after issue. Reporter what they all had was a bad case of new home heartbreak. Look at that. Reporter a dream house turning into a nightmare. Its kind of typical of the homes that are built to sell, not built to last. Reporter these two men, sort of the Sherlock Holmes and watson of new Home Construction problems lets go inside and see. Reporter say they see it all the time in cases they investigate for homeowners. Thats a sign you have trouble. Reporter Harrison Mac Campbell is a forensic architect. They put them up in a hurry, dont Pay Attention to detail. Reporter bill loden is the former president of the American Association of home inspectors. Its less than a fiveagree slope and it should be at least 15. Reporter theres a building boom in this country. Tens of thousands of new homes going up every year. With big National Builders including the biggest d. R. Horton promising Quality Homes and superior customer service. Yet documents show horton has set aside some 400 million in each of the last two years to deal with construction defect claims, calling it the ordinary course of business. Its got good black mold in it. Shouldnt see that. Reporter an abc news investigation conducted with our stations across the country youre wringing water out of the wood. Reporter found case after case of homeowners claiming shoddy construction. The water would start here and then travel along the ceiling. Reporter but the big wellknown builders often slow or refusing to fix the problems. Whats wrong with your yard . Reporter big and small. Black soot, water damage, a giant crack in the foundation. Reporter as wls discovered in chicago. We had no choice. No one will fix it. It was our house. We had to just walk away from it. Reporter in raleigh, north carolina, wtvd heard from army captain morrow bazan who had to sandbag his new home because it floods, outside and inside, with almost every rainfall. In seattle, komotv heard from homeowners about what the suns rays were doing to their siding. Melted siding. Extensive buckling. Glaring gaps. Reporter but the homeowners sate builder keeps putting off any kind of fix. Hardly any phone calls get returned. Reporter in columbus, ohio, frustrated homeowners took our reporter from wsyx along as they showed up at the builders office to demand their problems be fixed. Abc 6. There are homeowners who want some answers. Im going to have to ask you to leave. Appreciate your time. Would you want your family to live in one of these places . Thank you very much. Reporter the Industry Trade group says unhappy homeowners are in the minority and all too often americans have expectations that are just too high. The American Consumer expects a perfect home, theres no such thing as a perfect home. Reporter jerry howard is the chief executive officer of the National Association of home builders. I think the quality of housing being built is as good as its ever been. Better. Better than ever . Yes, sir. Are they shoddy . I say no. Reporter big National Builders are masters at enticing potential homeowners with a dream house, namebrand appliances, custom color schemes, designer amenities. Were going to use the fridge da dare, galaxy series, youll see tiger woods and stars will use those. What we dont see in the model home are the bones, the hidden parts of the home. Reporter veteran home inspector Mark Mcgovern saysry go beyond what the sales reps pitch. Go into the neighborhood, knock on doors, g buying in you neighborhood, can you tell me what your experience is . Point out all the h issues. Reporter so thats what we did at a d. R. Horton development in virginia where we met a lot of very unhappy homeowners with problems they say d. R. Horton would not fix. Im generally calm, gut i got to the point i was calling every day and cussing at them. Reporter we brought in the home detectives to look at what homeowners described as problems and defects. One of the homeowners, jackie walker, aartist who works for a and other Media Outlets in washington every single one of these is a nail pop or a seam. Reporter shes marked more than 800 nails she says have popped out of the wall, along with cracks in the door frames. Should this happen in a brandnew home . No. Absolutely not. This is excessive by any standard. Theres a real problem. Reporter but she says shes had to go to war with d. R. Horton to get it all fixed and it still is not. Well after her warranty expired. It has been a nightmare. Ive made several attempts to be here for appointments, for them to show up. I had 23 appointments and they missed 17 of those. Reporter a spokesperson for d. R. Horton said the company has reached out to address the problems we raised about the homes in walker subdivision. And is our station katu in portland, oregon, reported homeowners with problems and defects claim their builder seems to be waiting them out until their firstyear warranty expires. You just get that sense, theyre dragging this out so that my year runs out, then theyre going to dump me. Have you ever heard of that happening . No, sir. Not until this point . Not until this point. Im the first to mention that to you . Yes, sir. Its never been an issue with this industry . No, sir, not to my knowledge. Reporter it was only after the builders knew abc news or one of our stations was on the case that repair crews showed up. In indianapolis, it was onlytv e builder sent an executive to ou drainage problems. This is how we knew it was leaking. Reporter and outside houston, the builder d. R. Horton actually offered to buy this house back after our station ktrk began to investigate a homeowners complaints of defects and problems. For nightline, brian ross, abc news, new york. Up next, young kids training for hours to be the dancing queens and kings of the future. Later, Whoopi Goldberg with a special christmas message. my hero zero by lemonheads zero really can be a hero. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first months payment on select volkswagen models. Right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. More doing chores for dad per roll more earning something you love per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. 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Pressing send, then jen is like, your class sold out. Reporter just one of her stable. I have a whole group of people that are now stars, they have their own fans just from the videos. We didnt have that. My generation. Reporter miranda grew up in yuma, arizona. I would watch these awards shows and music videos and i would learn the dances and i would just do it in my living room. Reporter now little bah dances for those online millions. To mirandas choreography here at millennium. Miranda has an mtv show premiering next year. You have to be educated in all styles, all eras. Thats just something youve got to do. Reporter its not reality, she says. Its all educational. Just keep in mind, like, we are casting today. Okay . So dont perform this 90s piece like a 2016 dancer. Okay . Lets go its all positive. None of it is scripted. None of it is set up. Reporter shes got pedigree. She was behind the scenes on beyonces diva video and onstage her first big gig was on a beyonce tour. I stepped foot on that stage, it was like it was like i was home. Its important that every professional dancer experiences that once in their lifetime. All right, come on lets mark it. Reporter and this has been her life. Choreographer Missy Elliots super bowl halftime turn last year. Front of camera on iggy azaleas. Jimmy ive been here 16 years, a long time, danced with a lot of people. But it wasnt until youtube where like my name as Tricia Miranda was starting to really get out there in the public eye. Why put all this blood, sweat and tears, hours of practice, into dance . Its all i do. Theres nothing else for me. This is all im going to do for the rest of my life. Whether its teaching, dancing, choreographer, creative directing, directing. Its all going to have dance involved. Thats what i do. Thats what i live and breathe for. Reporter me too. Im nick watt for nightline in los angeles. Up next, dont miss whoopi embracing the holiday spirit with a very special christmas message. 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Tonight, our friend Whoopi Goldberg is ringing in the holidays for nightline from her living room. Once again reading us a classic christmas tale. Ho ho ho oh ho ho hoe hello. Im going to give you my recitation of the night before christmas. Because i really like it. And its my favorite thing to do just before i go to bed. So lay back. Or sit back. Or just sit if youre a puppy. Or a cat. twas the night before christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that st. Nicholas soon would be there. Now the children were all nestled snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. And mama in her kerchief and i in my hat had settled our brains down for a long winters nap. Which o when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter i leapt it from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window i flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, threw up the sash and the moon on the breast of the newfallen snow gave the luster of midday to objects below. When what to my wandering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight teeny tiny reindeer. With an old driver so lively and quick i knew in a minute it must be st. Nick. More rapid than eagles his courses they came and he whistled and shouted and he called them by name, now dasher now dancer now prancer now vixen, on comet on cupid on donner and blitzen. To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall. Now dash away, dash away, dash away all. Which i assume meant, hey, go to the top of the porch and then go to the top of the wall and then get out of here. Thats what i think that meant. As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly when they met with an obstacle mount to the sky, so up to the house to the top corners they flew with a sleigh full of toys and st. Nicholas too. And then in a twinkling i heard upon the roof the prancing and pawing of each little tiny hoof. As i drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney st. Nicholas came with a bound. He came down the chimney which i personally think would have been a little hot, but hes st. Nick, so you know, magic happens but dont try that at home. I think trying that at home is a bad idea. Anyway. He was dressed all in fur. Fake fur, just saying. From his head to his foot and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. The bundle of toys he flung up on his back. He looked like an old peddler just opening his pack. His eyes oh they were twinkling, his dimples how merry. His cheeks were like roses, his nose was like a cherry. And a little tiny tiny mouth w drawn up like a bow, the beard of his chin was white as snow. The stump of his pipe well, he didnt actually have a pipe. The stump of his starbucks he held in his teeth and the coffee encircled his head like a wreath. In a broad face and a round little belly and it shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. He was plussize, plump, a right old elf. And i laughed when i saw him in spite of myself. Now i wasnt laughing at him, i was laughing with him, because he was going ho ho ho and i said, ha ha ha so we were laughing together. And a wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know i had nothing to dread. Well, i do have some things to dread but i wasnt dreading seeing him, thats what that means. He didnt say a word, he went straight to his work. He filled all of the stockings and turned with a jerk, he laid his finger aside his nose and giving a nod, whoop whoop, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team he gave a whistle and away they all flew like down on a thistle. But i heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. The night before christmas by clement moore. Now that is the holiday bedtime story. 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