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Texas homeowners need protection from substandard construction - not the TRCC, a State agency that's "fundamentally flawed and does more harm than good." So, HOT advocates policies that provide effective consumer protections, improve the quality of new and remodeled homes, and establish high professional standards for builders and the construction trades they hire. Others who'll benefit from such policies include realtors, insurance companies, and the communities they serve.
 

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Building Trades

This page includes information for and about homebuilders, remodellers, inspectors, engineers, and subcontractors. Please send other helpful links to .

  • Texas Association of Builders (www.TexasBuilders.org)
    TAB is an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders. With a membership of over 14,000 representing 550,000 jobs and $35B in annual revenue, TAB poses a powerful lobbying force to advocate legislation that benefits builders, as opposed to homeowners.
  • How can you find reputable builders and contractors? 
    • TRCC is the state agency charged with overseeing the homebuilding industry and protecting homeowners, but it has no authority to force builders to fix defects or to prevent bad builders from entering the field. Instead, it serves more to shield builders from lawsuits. But as ineffective as this state agency is, it does provide a way to search for a builder and see if they're registered. Being registered, however, tells you nothing about how good they are, what type of homes they build, what homeowners are saying about them, etc. 
    • AngiesList.com  is a much better way of finding good builders or ones to avoid, but it requires a small subscription fee. Still, we recommend this service because it captures consumer ratings of all sorts of products and services, including home builders and construction trades, and builders can't nominate or write reviews about themselves. 
    • HOT Endorsements? We're still looking for better ways to highlight good builders and encourage their support, but we don't want to be influenced by their membership. So, watch this space and provide ideas if you have them. 
    • Bad Builder Watch List? Because we don't want to be in a position of listing builders to watch out for, you'll have to Angie's List or a similar service, or read some of the articles and case studies on this site.
  •    Web Soil Survey
    http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app
    The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.     

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