Million dollar leaky home

Published: 5:16PM Wednesday March 25, 2009

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She's lost her dream home, her marriage and almost every cent to her name. And she still has a house that leaks.

And now owes lots of cash to those who built and approved it.

Miranda Patrick has battled for over eight years for compensation but she has lost her final appeal.

She says the government's leaky homes solution is suposed to be quick, fair and just - but it's anything but.

Donna-Marie Lever has her story on Close Up and we ask John Gray, president of the Home Owners and Buyers Association, how other homeowners could avoid this situation.

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