If your home was in the southeast this article would mean something to you…

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/01/11/180011.htm

If you were on spring break last year in FL you probably heard tons of stories on the news about families who were forced to abandon their homes because they were built with “Chinese drywall.”  This literally was a health issue.  Now Chinese drywall companies appear to be fighting compensating U.S. homeowner’s effected by their product.  This has been a big insurance case in the past year or so as homeowner’s are looking to anyone they can for damages.  Luckily Michigan homeowner’s are unlikely to be effected by this problem.  The drywall was purchased as a last resort during the time of homes being rebuilt following hurricanes in or about 2005 in the southeast.  Demand was so high that even new home builders will getting drywall anywhere they could and China was a market eager to fill the orders.  So imagine moving into your dream house only to find out five years later that it was actually making you and your family sick.