Phoenix Pool Builder Publicizing Alleged Kickback Scam Between New Home Builders, Pool Companies Costing Consumers Million$

In Phoenix, Arizona, The Arizona Republic reports:

• One of Arizona's largest pool builders has taken to the air waves claiming that home buyers are being duped into spending thousands of extra dollars to put swimming pools in their new homes. Ron Ostlund, owner of Riviera Pools in Phoenix, has launched an advertising and Internet campaign to publicize what he describes as a "kickback scheme" between new home builders and several pool companies. Ostlund estimates that agreements between home builders and pool companies to act as "preferred pool builders" have cost 70,000 homeowners as much as $250 million in overpayments since 1997.

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