Bdw, as I said before, you should care other people but you should NOT care about how other people thinking about you. Don't let other people's discourage or negative words to affect your direction, most importantly, your courage to face what you have to face now.
同情BDW and i hope BDW can get her money back...
it's wise for minto to return the deposit to the buyer because for other new home buyers, no one wants to take a risk to buy a house from a builder who may keep the big deposit for a mistake that the builder may make such as a wrong floor plan...etc.