Homeowner battles builder over structural issues in new NC house [Video]

MORGANTON, N.C. — Katherine Graff moved into her brand-new house in the Saratoga Run development of Morganton in May 2023. Despite taking all the recommended precautions, including hiring a home inspector, Graff soon noticed troubling signs.

“Within about a month of moving in, I started finding carpenter ants,” Graff explained. “I have video of them coming in through the large gaps in the siding.”

“I started going into the crawl space and started looking around, kind of looking for the carpenter ants. And that’s when I started noticing, again, that things just didn’t look right,” she continued. “I’ve pulled wire in Texas. I worked in brand new buildings — hospitals and schools and things like that — so the more I started digging into that, the more I started to discover and honestly, I was disgusted at what I was …