The inspections. Actually, I think it would be legal to do so, but if the builder sells the home and they don't disclose problems with the house they'd likely be opening themselves up to a civil suit, and having a contract which severely restricts the kind of inspection you do would be strong evidence that they knew, or should have known, that something was fucked up. Lennar certainly has a team of lawyers that know more about this than I do...but a lot of this sort of thing depends on legal action costing more than it's worth...and one or two odd cases they do get might just be settled out of court and chalked up as an operating expense.

Scumbags.