|
Support HOBB - Become a Sustaining Member |
 |
|
Who's Online |
|
We have 1 member online |
|
| Register Your Builder Complaint |
Please let us know what has happened to you, and let us know if you would like to help us make buying new houses safer.
Tell us your story.
click here
Legend Home Fraud
 |
posted 24 May 2007 19:38 CET
The salesperson retracted the initial offer she made to me on a home. We did a contract, and she decided to add $10,000 to the price of the home. I've been told that the salespeople at Legend Home Corp are crooks, I had no idea. The sales manager, Scott Villarreal and Mike Wilkinson, the president of the company backed Georgetta Lee up on her story. The next week, they were offering an extra $10,000 to people. They refused to refund the $10,000 even though we did not have an executed contract.
CROOKS CROOKS CROOKS |
Legend Home Crooks
|
posted 24 May 2007 19:36 CET
The salesperson retracted the initial offer she made to me on a home. We did a contract, and she decided to add $10,000 to the price of the home. I've been told that the salespeople at Legend Home Corp are crooks, I had no idea. The sales manager, Scott Villarreal and Mike Wilkinson, the president of the company backed Georgetta Lee up on her story. The next week, they were offering an extra $10,000 to people. They refused to refund the $10,000 even though we did not have an executed contract.
CROOKS CROOKS CROOKS |
Michael Hecker
|
posted 24 May 2007 19:35 CET
The salesperson retracted the initial offer she made to me on a home. We did a contract, and she decided to add $10,000 to the price of the home. I've been told that the salespeople at Legend Home Corp are crooks, I had no idea. The sales manager, Scott Villarreal and Mike Wilkinson, the president of the company backed Georgetta Lee up on her story. The next week, they were offering an extra $10,000 to people. They refused to refund the $10,000 even though we did not have an executed contract.
CROOKS CROOKS CROOKS |
Txchainsawmass
|
posted 23 May 2007 22:31 CET
Midland Pacific in San Luis Obispo County has lopsided new home contracts: After 16 days they get to keep your deposit regardless if you buy or not. Regardless of emergencies. You are better off with a lawyer or realtor writing the contract instead of using their contract. Their contract omits some standard contingencies which they neglect to tell you. The contract states you are not allowed to use an outside of the area lender (legal? Ethical?). This limits your options to get a good loan or in my case work with a trusted lender in SF . Also they become very difficult to deal with if you try to extend time frames or ask to many questions it quickly turns into harrassing you to cancel and of course keep your deposit along with any upgrade money. My purchase with another large home builder was worlds apart from the mistreatment at Midland Pacific. As such I will continue to reccomend the good builder and tell folks to stay away from Midland Pacific contracts. I think it is important that people be aware as I learned I am not an isolated case. also it does feel good to put this in writing after dealing with their rudeness and having to give my hard earned money. |
Terry Templeton
|
posted 20 May 2007 21:28 CET
My family is living proof. Pulte “targets” young families, elderly folks well I guess anyone they feel they can take advantage of. The company is based on manipulation and intimidation. Unethical business practices are rampant; the entire structure of this organization is corrupt.
Most of us would agree that a home mortgage and a hammer are very different. . They have combined two seemingly different businesses into one, corruption, manipulation, coercion and blackmail.
Honestly, the most difficult part of this whole thing is telling the story. I still can not believe it myself. YET!!!!
1 year 4months later we have mold behind the fridge as well as up in the floor between the kitchen and front room. The upstairs master tub that was the initial cause of the major kitchen ceiling collapse is held together w/ strips of t-shirt. The electric outlet is not in the wall, it is propped under the Jacuzzi tub pump.
Ridicules but true!!!!! Pulte actually gets $$$$$$$$FEDERAL COMPENSATION $$$$$ (tax breaks) as well as recognition (awards and publicity) for building homes to “HIGHER STANDARDS” they are working to save our planet making contributions to the general welfare of our communities.
HAAA HAAAAHAAAA!!!! As far as we know there has been no initial inspection or final inspection, we do not have an insulation card nor do we have corroborating utility bills. We moved from a thirty year old home w/ pool, Jacuzzi, slump block to an energy efficient home w/ double the energy bill.
We have green and rust under every sink in the house. There isn’t any seal between the frame and the concrete as a result we have spiders and bugs crawling into the house. The exterior stucco has visible wire lath sticking out as well as countless cracks. The gaps between the weep screed and foundation at the base of the house are large enough to put your hand up into. The handle on the sliding glass door is broken, we do not have a working dishwasher. We have plungers at all bathrooms; all of the toilets back up. We have fire extinguishers thru out the house because of electric shorts and major appliance blow outs. We have been asked twice in one year “are you sure your house wasn’t hit by lightning?” UUGGGHHHHH, NO!!!!!
I start to think there may be an end…..it continues. Recently we had sewer backing up in the house from the downstairs toilet. The cause…the flange had been put in crooked the plumber (Pulte owns the plumbing company) said “it will leak again” who ever put it in knew it would leak and covered up and left. I asked if he could look at the toilet upstairs I explained that it was very loose. He said “that’s impossible” and yet!!!!! Once he looked the toilet had NEVER been attached to the floor.!!!!
We have been harassed by the police dept, H.O.A, neighbors, Pulte reps and sub-contractors. The threats have not been limited to my family. Neighbors have been threatened as well. One example, a neighbor came to me for help the next day she was told that she was seen w/ me and that if she wanted further work done on her house she “better not be seen w/ me”. E-mails confirm this. Another neighbor was told by Pulte rep that I was a “druggie, specifically CRACK” , another neighbor was told that “yes” we did have mold in our house but it was because we had left food in the upstairs master bedroom closet, and that, that was the source of the mold.
panitbt@cox.net |
Thomas Gigliotti
|
posted 20 May 2007 20:59 CET
We are in the first phase of a development in mooresville nc, WATERLYNN. Our entire neighborhood has warranty problems that are going unresolved, and to top it off they lowered the spec level in our neighborhood from 4 to 2. thats a 35k to 70k loss overnight for no reason. Mooresville is one of the fastest growing communities in the US but since KB wants to sell em faster they screw us. we have all put our houses up FSBO and pickett the sales office now. begging people to drive down our street so they can see all the houses for sale...is there no law about pricing and spec levels....we were sold a spec 4 home and now live in a spec 2 neighborhood...if they will do it here they will do it anywhere....this is a boom town and the are ruining it by undercutting the market. and they still wont fix our houses.... |
MARSHA WILLE
|
posted 16 May 2007 20:52 CET
The wonderful TRCC, spoke to them over and over, Barbara Wells, to be exact, and we did not let the builder who started our home finish it, so we were not eligible for SIRT. But when I found out he had not registared a home (around 15-20) in 2 years that he had been building in our area, (although, he had registared 12 in 2005, so he did KNOW it was mandatory) I was advised to give them this valuable information and he would be FINED, FINED,FINED!!!!!Filed a complaint, and went to the extent of going to the city and pulling every single permit he had for the past 2 years and handing it over to the TRCC. Guess what, per Barbara Wells, he bought himself into compliancy and was penalized for late registration. Yeah, these are the people I want in my corner! |
Rumple Stiltskin
|
posted 10 May 2007 07:59 CET
"60 Minutes" - Nine-month investigation airs Sunday, May 13
Thursday, 10 May 2007
'60 Minutes' to shine light on real estate
"60 Minutes" is turning its lens on the real estate industry with a segment Sunday night investigating some familiar topics. The television network has been snooping around the industry, crisscrossing the country interviewing brokers, agents, discounters and government figures.
Read more...
It is time to resurrect and review the Proxmire report regarding the realestate industry. Let the truth be told. |
Craig Winsor
|
posted 9 May 2007 21:59 CET
Come visit the upgraded site. Thanks for the support!
Wareham Development |
Tamela Newton
|
posted 9 May 2007 10:27 CET
We have a Choice home in Midlothian Kensington Park Subdivision. Everytime it rains hard water stains show up on the ceiling in front of my bay windows. My ceramic tile in the kitchen is all cracked and coming up. We have called choice and the tile people who came out and declared that it was the Texas heat causing my tile to crack. We cannot get any help getting this floor or the leak repaired. We had one leak repaired in the back of the home. The water was coming through the brick into my home. They came out and put more mortar up there and it looks so sloppy and ugly. |
Nivre
|
posted 2 May 2007 01:42 CET
Larry, go this website and ask for info.
He gave me so many info when we were having problems with Lennar's customer service.
Heres the site:
www.defective-homes.net |
Larry McCrory
|
posted 1 May 2007 13:25 CET
Lennar Homes defects just keep showing up one after another in our 6+ year old home and property. Defects started showing up three months after movings in and Lennar was notified. The following is a list of defects we have found in and under our Lennar Home by testing and documenting.
1. Water migrating under our home after it rains.
2. Water stains showing up on the garage floor 3 months after moving in.
3. Bad oders coming from within some areas of our new home from day one.
4. Mositure smells within our home from day one.
5. Moldy, damp smells coming form our cabinets throughout our home.
6. All the lower shelves in all the cabinetry sagging.
7. Water stains on the bottom legs of our island cabinet and others.
8. Moisture found under windows in exterior walls.
9. High calcium cloride (dome tests)reading from moisture throughout our home & garage.
10. High levels of toxic mold found under cabinets throughout our home.
11. Deteriorating concrete slab, tested
12. Concrete tested & classified as junk concrete.
13. Concrete slab cored and found to be about 3" is some locations and not the required 4" by code.
14. Concrete cores tested and found to be very porous.
15. Reinforcing wire mesh found at the bottom of all cores tested and not in the middle as code reguires.
16. Exterior stucco cracks.
17. Efflorescence found in garage floor and exterior foundation walls.
18. Hydrocarbons found in soil under our home, tested
19. High levels of Methane Gas and Carbon Monoxide tested and found under our home.
20. Yesterday I found the dryer vent pipe seams in our attic wrapped with masking tape and not the building code required tape. The end of this vent was also collapsed to half it's size to fit a under sized roof vent restricting the air flow. This alone could have burnt our home to the ground.
After informing Lennar Homes of most of these problems they said we don't any problems and there is nothing their can do for us. Thats been Lennar's standing sense the beginning. |
Ervin
|
posted 30 April 2007 17:51 CET
If youre a home buyer required by the any builder to sign a "Binding Arbitration" - BE AWARE! Dont ever sign that document!
Bring a lawyer with you when the builder's sales agent ask you to come over to sign some documents. Its cheaper to pay 250 bucks an hour for a lawyer than signing that "Binding Arbitration" with the builder. |
Ervin
|
posted 30 April 2007 15:24 CET
I just want to say that we bought a defective home from D.R. Horton in Bakersfield CA. Their customer service is horrible and quality of work doing repairs are just poor. We even hire a lawyer just to get their attention but its still not working. They fix some issues partially but not complete. So, if you guys wanna have nightmares? Go ahead and buy D.R. Horton homes! |
Craig Winsor
|
posted 27 April 2007 16:12 CET
Please help us to make our site number one on the search engines by linking it on any sites you have available. Make sure to link it as Wareham Development so when Wareham Development is searched it will show. All help is appreciated as we are trying to turn up the heat do to an unresponsive developer. Thanks!!!
Wareham Development |
 |
 |
|
Guestbook Home | Get This Guestbook | Get Joomla! Mambook v2.5. Copyright © 2003-2006 by Saka.
|
|
Home 
