She points to posts in her basement.
"As you see, I have mushrooms growing out of them. Yes, mushrooms growing out of them,"Goldhammer said.
The mushrooms are growing out of the wood post, she contends, because, like so much of the house, the builder did nothing to prevent water from getting inside.
That includes her roof, which is now buckling.
They want to put a Band Aid on things," said Goldhammer. "I don't want a Band Aid."
She and nearly 1,500 homeowners are suing Shea Homes again, this time in what is being called the largest mass action lawsuit in state history. They want to finally get the thousands of dollars to repair their homes so they can survive the nearly 40 inches of rain Redmond gets each winter.
Moreover, since the lawsuit was filed in 2010, their lawyer says they have discovered new problems.
"Shea also didn't seal the house from pest intrusion," said Seattle lawyer Tom Loeser. "There are homeowners who literally have rodents and frogs and other vermin living in their crawl spaces and their furnaces and their insulation."
Goldhammer says she needs money from the lawsuit to keep her house from rotting away.
"I need a new roof. If you have to take off the solar panels, I need new eaves," she said.
She said she doesn't want to sell her house.
"Well, because it's the people," she said, by way of explanation. "It's the community. A house is just a house. But you expect it to last longer than four years," she said.
Shea Homes promised to send an email in response to the lawsuit, but it never came.
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