TAMPA, Fla. — A 74-year-old Hillsborough County woman who says she spent most of her retirement money on a new construction home in East Tampa says she has been unable to move in as an eight-year construction dispute carried on.
“It’s not a room in this house that is completed,” said Mary Browning. “Not the doors, not the windows, nothing. The roof is not even completed. As you can see the ceiling is falling in.”
Back in 2018, records show Browning paid a $69,000 deposit to Hopps Construction to start building her forever home. But eight years later, and an extra $100,000, Browning said the work that has been done wasn’t done right: uneven floors, a cracking foundation, faulty wiring and more…