Under SB 800, before a homeowner may file a construction defect lawsuit against the builder, the homeowner generally must first:
Explanation
Civil Code §910 opens a prelitigation process: the claimant serves written notice - certified mail, overnight mail or personal delivery - describing the claimed violation in reasonable detail, and the builder may then inspect and offer to repair before suit. A CSLB complaint is licence discipline and does not satisfy §910. No engineer's report is a precondition; §910 asks for notice of the claim, not proof of it. The ten years in Civil Code §941 is the outside deadline for filing, not a period to wait out.
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