Liability of Contractor for Home Built for Personal Use

The doctrine of caveat emptor (or buyer beware) applies in cases where the seller of a home was also the original builder of the home, if the builder lived in the home before he sold it. O’Connor v. Scott, 533 So.2d 241, 243 (Ala. 1988) (summary judgment as to builder/seller finding caveat emptor applied where builder lived in home for almost two years); Stoner v. Anderson, 701 So. 2d 1140, 1145 n.1 (Ala. Civ. App. 1977) (“Our Supreme Court has held that a house was a ‘used’ residence where a builder had constructed it for his own personal use and had lived in it for almost two years before selling it.”).