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Home renovation budget blow-outs can lead to marriage break-ups, mortgagee sales, and financial ruin, but few disputes make it to the courts.
Instead, confidential legal settlements kept strictly secret by non-disclosure agreements keep many of the stories from getting to the ears of the public.
Property investor David Whitburn said this means the lessons learnt by homeowners burnt by “bait-pricing” builders, who give artificially low price estimates to win business, are not shared publicly.