| The National Association of Homebuilders says about one and a half percent of the cost of your new home goes toward construction theft. That means if you buy a $200,000 house, $200 of that cost is due to construction theft.
Here’s a story from Florida of a jobsite where theives actually uprooted landscaping on subsequent occasions:
http://www.nbc-2.com/News/stories/050603-construction_theft.shtml
In Arizona, construction company officials tell their theft stories and what they try to do about it:
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/1999/11/29/focus2.html
Lumbermans of Washington offers some helpful hints to prevent jobsite theft:
http://www.lumbermens-building.com/builders/builderxpress/BuildersXpressArticle.asp?Volume=25&Article=1
This eUpdate posting by: Steve Joyce
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