The Building Industry Association of Maryland - National Capital , Inc. (BIA/MNC) is a nonprofit trade association representing member companies employing persons who are engaged in all aspects of building homes and communities throughout the Maryland - National Capital region.
The Mission of BIA/MNC is to promote a positive business environment for the building and housing industry and enhance opportunities for its members throughout the Maryland - National Capital Chapter. Recognizing that home ownership is vital to strengthening our nation's families, stabilizing communities and fostering economic prosperity, BIA/MNC works diligently to support its members so that more families in Greater Washington may realize the "American Dream" of home ownership.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is a federation of more than 800 state and local builders associations throughout the United States. The mission of this Washington, D.C.-based trade association is to enhance the climate for housing and the building industry, and to promote policies that will keep housing a national priority. Chief among NAHB’s goals is providing and expanding opportunities for all consumers to have safe, decent and affordable housing.
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Each member of NARI is pledged to observe the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and responsibility in the conduct of business:
By promoting only those products and services which are functionally and economically sound, and which are consistent with objective standards of health and safety;By making all advertising and sales
promotion factually accurate with respect to product description,
performance specification, and cost/benefit analysis, and by avoiding
practices that tend to mislead or deceive the customer with respect to
competitive pricing, savings claims, or the nature and significance of
contracts, warranties, finance agreements, completion certifications, lien
wavers, or liability and workers' compensation insurance;
By writing all contracts and warranties such that they are fair and
mutually beneficial to all parties concerned, such that they are free of
ambiguities or omissions which tend to obscure contractual obligations,
and such that warranty terms and provisions are free of the capacity to
mislead or deceive the customer as to quality or longevity of the product
of service;
By honoring all contractual obligations until and unless they are altered
or dissolved by the mutual consent of all contractual parties concerned,
and by fulfilling those obligations in a reasonably prompt manner that is
fair to all parties concerned;
By promptly acknowledging and acting on all customer complaints, and, in
situations where complaints appear unreasonable and persistent, by
encouraging the customer to initiate an approved third party dispute
settlement mechanism; and
By refraining from any act intended to restrain or suppress competition,
and to thereby promote the private enterprise system and its guarantee of
equal rights for all.