[Hondaracer]

just never sign off on it.

The best position you have is if you are living with parents, etc. where you're not pressured to move in to your new unit you just never complete/move in until the problems are addressed.

Moving in is almost the same as signing off on the unit. It's a sad state that developers dont address the situation because bigger developers have so many people under their employ that strictly deal with deficiencies. However, their quality systems obviously fail them when people are moving in with chips in counters etc.

When we did our walk throughs, we would actually pre-emptively mark stuff off we saw as a sign of good will towards the home owner, sometimes it would work well because people would see this as a good faith gesture, other times people would go insane marking every single little thing.

Peeps moving into a new unit, pay me $50 an hour and i'll be your new 'friend' for your walkthrough lol