Rexwagon;319698 wrote:
is it by the river

hope we dont have to see my family flood fight blog again...

NickB;319684 wrote:
House was built on a repossessed foundation if I remember correctly.

a repo'd foundation? lmao. this IS a good story.

24valvenotak;319682 wrote:
is it actually a structural problem? or are the walls just not square/plumb/true? the city should have inspected and signed off on the framing for compliance with building codes. you could probably try take him to court to battle over the definition of "acceptable practices and industry standards" but i wouldnt expect much. -if you looked at a model home completed by this company and the quality was there, you might have a leg to stand on?

tell them you will forget about if you can have the other side that gets done right

House was built on a repossessed foundation if I remember correctly.

Joel;319666 wrote:
We were verbally promised by the realtor that everything would get fixed.

Umm, is the realtor the one fixing the house?? You didn't even get a verbal promise from the builder, the realtor just wanted to get paid, which he doesn't get if the house doesn't sell. You got screwed and you really have no recourse other than to hope the builder will want to save their rep. Good luck, hope it gets straightened out.

tell them you will forget about if you can have the other side that gets done right

Joel;319666 wrote:
We were verbally promised by the realtor that everything would get fixed.

There is the problem.

Joel;319666 wrote:
My mother was in the hospital, I actually had P O A and had to close for her. we had five days to move out of our old house because of the fact that it was a buyout house, and the builder took so long, we could have not closed but then she would've had no place to live. We were verbally promised by the realtor that everything would get fixed.

Not the Realtors job to fix the house.

-Eric

bubba;319659 wrote:
...cool story bro

Knew it was coming

Joel;319635 wrote:
My mother recently bought a new contruction twin home built by Todd Kirchoffner, owner of Builtright Contruction. She came into this while the house was still in studs, and liked the floor plan. The builder told her that if she made an offer, they would finish the house as soon as they possibly could(gave us a date of December 17th), and would explain to us more about what the house would be, and let us pick things out. She put down a full price offer and paid the earnest money and the whole 9 yards within a few days. We had to fight tooth and nail to get any information about what would be in the house(floor coverings, cabinets, etc). House was finished on January 27th, 40 days late. Upon walkthrough, several things were not completed, and a lot of problems with structural things like bowed walls, bowed window frames, etc were found. Before closing, all of these things were brought up. The realtor told her to make a list and these things would be taken care of.
Fast forward to this afternoon. After talking to the builder finally after trying to get in contact with him since the week after she moved in, he is giving her a lot of excuses and telling her they are very busy and she should send an emailed list and they might get to it. Since she closed on the house, and there was no signed agreement to finish the things she found, we basically have no way to hold him accountable to fix these things.

The only leg up we have on him is that the other side is not sold yet. I am willing to do whatever it takes to get this stuff fixed. We have though about putting up a sign in the yard making sure potential buyers know the quality fo work to expect from this builder, making it very dificult to sell the other side of the home. Also, someone told me to make a website and put up flyers directing people to this website to try and raise awareness of this guy.

What are your thoughts on this? Is the sign Idea considered slander? Any insight would be entertained.

...cool story bro

NickB;319650 wrote:
I wouldn't of closed..

This...