Nevada · Construction-defect rights
Here is what you have, and here is how to keep it.
Nevada gives you ten years from substantial completion for both obvious and hidden defects (NRS 11.202(1)), and no deadline at all for a defect caused by fraud (NRS 11.202(2)). Chapter 40 requires you to serve a formal notice of constructional defect and allow inspection and repair before filing.
What you have
The deadline does not protect a builder who concealed the problem.
In Nevada, a claim of fraud, concealment or serious misconduct is not cut off by the ordinary construction deadline (NRS § 11.202(2)).
FRAUD HAS NO DEADLINE HERE. NRS s.11.202(2) lets you sue "at any time" for a deficiency caused by fraud - the ten-year bar simply does not apply. Otherwise you have ten years from substantial completion for any defect, whether obvious or hidden.
The deadline
10 years to bring a construction-defect claim
NRS § 11.202(1)
10 years from SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION (NRS § 11.202(1)) — a single flat repose covering both patent and latent deficiencies (Nevada consolidated its former 6/8/10-year tiers). FRAUD CARVE-OUT: subsection 2 allows an action "at any time after the substantial completion" for "any act of fraud in causing a deficiency" in the design/planning/supervision/construction — fraud removes the 10-year bar entirely.
“No action may be commenced against the owner, occupier or any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or the construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of such an improvement”
Before you sue: Chapter 40 notice of constructional defect required before an action, with inspection and repair rights. (NRS 40.645)
What to do now
Write it down the day you notice it. Photograph it with something for scale. Note the date, the room, and what you saw. If it gets worse, photograph it again - a sequence is far stronger than one picture. Keep every message with the builder. You are not starting a fight; you are keeping the option open. Nevada requires written notice to the builder before you sue: see "Before you sue" on this page for the exact rule. Describe each defect in reasonable detail; a record made at the time is what most people are missing later.
The same defect, a different answer next door
The construction-defect deadline is a state-by-state accident of geography. The identical crack in the identical house can be dead in one state and live in another.