Beach family goes it alone in suit over Chinese drywall

Companies that made, imported, sold, installed defective drywall point finger of blame elsewhere.

Feb. 8--VIRGINIA BEACH -- Ben Proto is mad. He's mad at his builder. Mad at his insurance company. Mad at his bank.

Proto, like hundreds of homeowners, has a home built with tainted Chinese-made drywall. The gases released by the drywall have damaged his electrical appliances and led him to move his family out of the home.

Unlike many of those home-owners who've added their names to the class-action lawsuit, Proto has gone at it alone, spending the past year negotiating with builders, lenders and insurance companies to get the home fixed.

So far, none of the companies that helped usher the Protos into their home has come to their aid. All have pointed the finger elsewhere.
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"I could have walked away from this house, let it go into foreclosure," Proto said, standing in the home's kitchen last week. "There's no reward for trying to do the right thing. You buy something you can afford. You pay your mortgage. But when something goes wrong, you're left holding the bag."

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