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I got a tip from a reader that the owner of A Syncon Home, who is hopping mad over construction defects in his new house, had put up Christmas decorations. I swung through Minden today, and indeed he did.

Santa says... since Syncon gave us a lemon make lemonade!

Sanata's penguins ask you to visit us at www.asynconhome.info.

Frosty says: Some geese lay a golden egg but Syncon laid our lemon house.

The Christmas lemons.

Supposedly there is more to be seen at night. I'll have to go by after dark and see, maybe after the Parade of Lights on Saturday.

Around Carson had a couple of posts about an upset Syncon homeowner site a few months back. I began to wonder if he's still around, so I recently checked it out again.

He's improved his organization and posted quite a bit more stuff about Syncon since the last time I was there. I do have to say that if he's right, which his pictures seem to say, Syncon really messed up his house and has done nothing about it.

When he started his site, it was just about his house. It looks like he's starting to add some pages about homeowner rights and he's got some video links about other messed-up houses.

He's also got a link to an online petition to get congress to investigate the home-building industry and a Bill of Rights for homeowners that he asks people to send to their representatives. If you agree with what he says, or what the petition says, you might want to sign the petition. It's up to you.

You might also want to take a look just to see what this guy is about. He's obviously upset and using his free speech rights to write about it, but I don't blame him. If the same thing had happened to me, I'd probably be PO'd too.

Click on www.asynconhome.info for his website.

As an addendum to the piece I wrote about the unhappy homeowner in Minden the other day, I took a drive through the La Costa development to see it firsthand.

A typical street in La Costa. The look is inspired by Tuscan villages.

La Costa is located on the outskirts on Minden, on what used to be cattle grazing land. But then again, all of Minden was cattle grazing land at one time. La Costa is just west of Winhaven, off of Ironwood Drive. See a map here.

One thing you notice driving around La Costa is how many empty lots there still are. I'd say probably only 30-40 percent of the lots have been built on, if even that. The neighborhood opened in 2006 with a projection of 138 total homes to be built. I didn't do a hard count, but I'd say maybe 50 have been built, leaving a lot of open space. This is probably because of the housing slump that has hit recently. And tellingly, I didn't see any new units under construction.

The house in question.

The disgruntled homeowner makes no attempts to keep his displeasure a secret. His house has a bright yellow For Sale sign out front, with his website prominently displayed. Around the corner he has parked an SUV, also sporting a bright yellow sign touting the construction defects and pointing people to his website.

A moving billboard.

He's serious about getting the word out, and he's serious about warning others. Syncon can't be too happy about this, but as long as everything he's saying is true, there's not a lot they can do about it. Ryan Jerz makes the same point.

Looks like there's someone not too happy with their new Syncon Home. This fellow bought a house in Minden's La Costa development (located just west of the Winhaven neighborhood) last summer, and apparently has been beset ever since with problems he attributes to shoddy workmanship. He's started up a website, www.asynconhome.info, which is little more than a litany of complaints set against a strikingly yellow background. If you want read that site, find a comfortable seat because it does go on and on. But I suppose if I bought a brand new house and there were this many problems with it, I might get vocal about it too.