I'm going to be completely honest about my experience with this builder. Bought a townhome in fall of 2013. When we bought, we knew it was going to be a long closing (Jan 2016) and of course as the date approached we kept checking the site to see what had been done, and when we saw nothing had been done, we knew they were behind schedule. Yes there were many delays (I lost count), but we were in the best situation possible since we didn't have to list our current property in order to move into the new build. I'm sure a lot of people were waiting on selling there homes, or worse, had already sold there homes when they thought they were going to close on the new build. Gail was never overly difficult. We ran into a few issues, but in speaking with her, she helped us get them resolved. I knew being nasty or rude to her wouldn't help the situation...plus she is just the middle man, it's the builder who is difficult. Now we did get a delay notice a week before we were supposed to close, and the only way I found out about it was through Karen, and she was surprised that the builder hadn't officially sent me a delay notice (which goes the show the lack of communication between the site and the head office), so I had to e-mail Gail for her to find out what was going on. We eventually got the delay notice....
Closing costs from the builder was only $8,000, so I'm not sure how people are getting dinged with $20k bills. As far as the quality of the house....it's crap. You can tell they rushed to get them finished. There is no craftsmanship whatsoever. Some areas of drywall were not sanded at all and they just decided to slap on the paint anyways. I can't really speak on them coming in and fixing stuff yet since we just moved in, but we will see! All in all would I buy from this builder again?....I don't think so.
- Approximate cost of services:
- $300,000.00