Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave

I'm sure it's different in every state.

Latent defects, which are not obvious or apparent by reasonable inspection, must be sued upon within 10 years of substantial completion of the project. That is the outside Statute of Limitations, after which contractors can relax. That deadline is extended, however, if the contractor is guilty of ?willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment? of defective construction, at which point the four-years-from-discovery-of-the-defect rule applies.

10 years

Last month, the Court of Appeal ruled on a construction defect case where the home was completed and a notice of completion filed in 1995. For years afterward, the contractor/seller was fixing defects but never really fixed them and finally nine years later told the buyer he would not fix anything else including some serious construction defects.

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/201...ntProfile=1051