Perry Homes Is Killing Me
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We’re growing tired of Houston area home builders who don’t give a crap when their building practices allow mold in our homes, but this time it’s a woman who’s waiting for a desperately needed transplant and getting sick from it.
“Perry Homes knew from the day we made an offer on the house I was a transplant patient. They knew,” said Lisa Liberi.
Lisa Liberi moved to the Houston area because it was a requirement for her double organ transplants.
But her move has only made her life-or-death situation worse.
Wayne: “If they called you right now for a transplant?”
Lisa: “I can’t go. I cannot go.”
Wayne: “Because of Perry Homes?”
Lisa: “Because of Perry Homes. They’re killing me, literally.”
“All of the vents, they noted in the mold report have mold,” Lisa told us.
Lisa took us for a tour through her brand-new half-a-million-dollar home in Willis, Texas.
It was meant to be a safe place to recover from surgery.
“I’m a Type 1 Diabetic since three months of age, so I’ve gone almost 60 years with no problems. Then I started passing out all the time, all the time,” she explained.
Doctors at the Medical Center told her she needed new kidneys and a new pancreas.
But to be on the transplant waiting list she had to move from New Mexico…
“Our realtor took us out to Woodland Hills, beautiful area, absolutely beautiful.”
They fell in love with a brand-new home from Perry Homes…
“It was within driving distance for my husband and within 2 hours that I needed to be of the transplant center,” Lisa added.
Lisa and Brent signed a contract and started packing… There were problems with the home found during inspection, but they were assured they had been fixed.
“We closed escrow April 4th, we moved into the house April 6th, nothing had been fixed…” she affirmed.
But the biggest problems with the house were still to come.
“First it started with ovens going out, so we were without ovens for a long time, then um the AC went on the blink, and that began in May.”
Lisa and Brent were assigned Perry Homes Warranty Manager… Ryan Stapp… To be their go-to guy for any issues with the house.
But the list of what was wrong was growing… And there were already warning signs of the unnecessary health problems yet to come…
“I texted Ryan and I said help, our vents are raining, water was coming out of our vents, our condensation, there was so much humidity in our house, the windows were all fogging up.”
Lisa was even documenting the readings on her thermostat.
Humidity was up to 74 percent… the EPA says indoor humidity levels should be between 30 and 50%.
Yet Lisa says when a contractor told her she had air leaks, the AC units were installed wrong and needed to be redone… Perry Homes didn’t want to do the repairs.
Lisa: “I was shocked.”
Wayne: “Do you know why?”
Lisa: “Money, the cost of it.”
On August 15th Lisa’s experience with Perry Homes would only get worse.
“So, what happened was my in-laws were here, and my mother-in-law and I were playing cards at the table sweating, vents were dripping,” Lisa explained. “Ryan Stapp calls me at just before 10 pm. I said it’s 85 degrees in my house, I need this fixed. And he says oh Lisa you can make bacon and eggs, you’ll like when the grease pops you in the nipples.”
Excuse me… Lisa says she told this Ryan guy to never talk to her like that again.
“After I got onto him for saying that to me. He goes oh Lisa, you know you’re my MILF. I didn’t know what that was.”
A “MILF” is short for M-I-L-F… or Mother I’d Love to F***.
“He was wasted, I don’t know if it was alcohol, drugs, I don’t know what it was, but he was wasted.”
We just had to hear an explanation from this guy.
“I was accused of saying some things which I never did. And long and short of it. I got released from my position because of the accusation,” claimed Ryan Stapp.
Stapp denies being impaired too. But eight days after Lisa complained about him, Stapp was charged in Montgomery County with drunk driving. It was his third offense… An automatic felony.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence… But it’s not a coincidence that with high humidity in a home, something else usually happens.
Mold.
Lisa and Brent brought in an expert.
Linda Lauver: “High humidity when we were there, and our air samples show elevated levels of mold.”
Wayne: “In one room it was particularly high…”
Linda: “So that was the master bathroom, it was 128,000.”
Wayne: “How bad is that?”
Linda: “That’s bad. That’s very bad.”
Wayne: “When you heard that…”
Lisa: “My mouth dropped, my jaw dropped, and the first thought to my mind was Perry did this, Perry could have prevented this if they would have just fixed the AC correctly the first time.”
Lisa says she developed itchy eyes… Difficulty breathing… Even her dogs got sick…
But her husband threw out the last Perry Homes employee who had been in her house… it was Chris Hawkins… Perry Homes Vice President of Construction.
“He starts talking, he talked over my husband and I. He treated us like we were poop on the sidewalk. We were stupid, if you tried to point something,” said Lisa.
“And finally, you know I’m like well let’s just leave then and I walked him out,” explained her husband, Brent.
“I was in tears, I was shaking from this. It was the first time in life I ever felt discriminated against for being for being disabled, for being on the transplant list, for being older, and for simply reporting sexual misconduct. He really made me feel worthless,” she expressed.
“What makes me excited about leading Perry Homes today is that I get the opportunity to carry on my father’s legacy,” states Kathy Britton in an ad.
Kathy Perry Britton took charge of Perry Homes when her father died in 2013.
Business reports say she’s doubled her family-owned company revenues in 9 years… and is now personally worth 2.6 billion dollars.
Perry Homes reportedly closed on more than 4 thousand homes in 2023.
It’s not the biggest homebuilder by far… But it’s one of the fastest growing… And that may be the problem here.
Mold problems in new construction in the Houston Area are increasingly common.
Home builders are cranking out homes that may look pretty… but may have dangers lurking inside.
“While they’re building them so fast, there are construction defects that cause mold growth,” explained specialist Linda. “Poor attic ventilation, air infiltration from the attic and through the perimeter walls.”
Wayne: “What’s going through your mind? Because you need this transplant.”
Lisa: “I’m thinking they’re trying to kill me, I’m trying not to cry.”
In October Lisa filed a housing discrimination complaint.
She alleges Perry Homes failed to make reasonable accommodations for her disability… That they subjected her to sexual harassment and retaliated against her for reporting the sexual harassment.
She had already come to Dolcefino Media to fight the injustice.
“We put everything we had into this house, so it’s either come to y’all and hopefully get some help or walk away from the house and lose everything, and I shouldn’t have to do that because of a shoddy company.”
But Lisa had a message for the owner of Perry Homes.
“I would say shame on you. You go out telling the world how perfect you are, and how Perry Homes stand by its warranty and give an excellent product, and here I am and you’re killing me.”
Perry Homes ignored repeated requests for an explanation… But they got our message.
At first… Perry Homes had only offered ten thousand dollars for repairs… but in recent days has offered to buy back the house.
And they offered another 51 hundred dollars to her if she will sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Guess they are worried her neighbors might start asking questions too.
Wayne: “You’re worried about your wife.”
Brent: “Absolutely, 100%, that’s the biggest thing, you know, I mean, if I could say we had a place to go for her transplant right now and let the house go, you know, I would do it, her health comes first and foremost (…) I’d love to just go ring somebody’s neck because it’s my wife’s life at stake and that tears me apart.”
Lisa says she is sicker now than she was back in New Mexico. Asthma… High blood pressure… Ear infections.
Symptoms of mold toxicity she says can take a year to clear up.
“There’s too much damage to my body. I won’t survive on dialysis, there’s too much damage to my body… I’m scared. I’m scared, and not to mention the fact I’m allergic to the mold, that’s not helping either.”
She’s also not eligible for a transplant if she has no healthy environment to go back to. Her immune system after an operation like that would be totally compromised.
Lisa: “I’m not going to be able to get transplanted, this is my life, this is life or death for me.”
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