Your thoughts on this situation...
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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.
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One thing I went in knowing builing a new house, people don't take the time and pride to make quality build and good finish these days. Our house had a few things I didn't like but nothing like what you guys are going through. Do they do a one year walkthrough? Jordahl fixed everything major we saw right away and minor stuff on the one year walkthrough. Remind them the the other half hasn't sold yet and you'll be getting there name out and not in a good manner.
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I can't imagine NOT getting something in writing when talking about dollar amounts over a few hundred/thousand. Could try the better business bureau, sites like angies list, and the sign idea, just make sure you have the necessary proof to prevent any charges of slander. I'll be meeting with my realtor on Thursday and will ask him about it then to get his opinion on the situation...he's a pretty cool dude and I'm sure he knows a thing or two about how to deal with stuff like this. As Nick said though, she didn't have to close if she was not satisfied with the house at the time of closing.
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NickB;319650 wrote:
I wouldn't of closed..This...
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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
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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.
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bubba;319659 wrote:
...cool story broKnew it was coming
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Nowadays you can never take someone's word for anything. Always always always get everything in writing.
-Eric
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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.
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Joel;319666 wrote:
We were verbally promised by the realtor that everything would get fixed.There is the problem.
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