Richard Fuller Homes Rip-off. Watch out! Liens are on your house that you don't even know about! Buyer Beware! *Consumer Suggestions
I have kept up with this website from time to time and seen all the complaints filed by numerous people owning Richard Fuller Homes, most of which seem to be in my subdivision in Park Glen. I have to say that none of them really surprise me. Our experience with the building process, follow up on warranty issues, and just poor workmanship done by those who built our house has been negative to put it mildly.
I am an understanding person, I don't expect things to be "perfect" as a previous sub-contractor complained, but I do expect that if I am spending upwards of $150,000 on a house it be done properly! I expect to have things done correctly the first time and if they aren't, I expect them to be fixed.
You have already read all of the problems others have had, and ours have been the same. We have had drainage problems, a/c problems, we still don't have everything fixed from our final walk-through list (we closed in February). But, recently I have come across yet another bit of information.
Upon recently trying to refinance our house, we discovered that there is a lien placed on our house by the drywall company. For those of you that don't know what that means (as I didn't) it means Richard Fuller did not pay them for the work they did in our house, and therefore, they have placed a lien against our house to get their money. The neat thing is, you won't have any idea that there is a lien on your house until you try to refinance it or sell it. Now, we have to get Richard Fuller to pay the drywall company before we will be allowed to refinance. And I suspect it may take a while, judging by how quickly everything else has gotten taken care of!
Just wanted to warn you! So, current Fuller home owners, I know others in our neighborhood that have had the same problem. You may want to find out if their are liens on your houses! Buyer Beware!
9 Updates & Rebuttals
Scott
Burleson,Texas,
Mr. Fuller owns a house locally.
#10UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, February 17, 2002
Theoretically you could place a lien on a home he owns locally! He owns the former model home in Lonesome Dove Estates in Arlington, Texas. He does not live in the home and currently has it up for sale. If a person filed a lien he would have to resolve it before it could close. The house is a 2377 plan and has been available for almost a year. Good luck.
Theoretically, a person COULD put a lien on Fuller's property ...
#100
Sat, October 27, 2001
This email is a rebuttal to RipOff #7218.
It was sent by B and C at bschnackel@fourteen.net.
Richard Fuller Homes Rip-off. Watch out! Liens are on your house that you don't even know about! Buyer Beware! *Consumer Suggestions (#7218)
They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: bschnackel@fourteen.net
Their name: B and C
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
Theoretically, a person COULD put a lien on Fuller's property if they sued him, won, and could not collect payment any other way. (Laws regarding this vary by state.) But despite some builders' claims that homeowners are law suit happy money grubbers, most homeowners do not want or pursue such oppressive legal procedures, and are merely trying to get what they paid for.
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TOO bad
#100
Fri, October 26, 2001
They filed the following to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: Aurora@hotmail.com
Their name: Aurora
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
TOO bad you can't put a lien on Fullers personal house hehehe then he would know how it felt.
*Consumer Suggestion: You are not the only one that has had a lien placed on their home because of Richard Fuller Homes not paying their subcontrators.
#100
Tue, October 23, 2001
This email is a rebuttal to RipOff #7218.
It was sent by Angery Richard Fuller Home Owner at sameboat@hotmail.com.
Richard Fuller Homes Rip-off. Watch out! Liens are on your house that you don't even know about! Buyer Beware! *Consumer Suggestion (#7218)
They filed the following rebuttal to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: sameboat@hotmail.com
Their name: Angery Richard Fuller Home Owner
Their phone number: 817-416-4954-fullers office
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
You are not the only one that has had a lien placed on their home because of Richard Fuller Homes not paying their subcontrators.
We went to finance our home, in the parkway at park glenn subdivison, and found out their was a lien placed on our home from a CO-Serv Security Company. After talking to this company, I found our their are several homes involved that they have placed a lien.
What happens is, when they are not paid they file a lien on that property address and the lien goes to whomever owns it at the time. Even if the work was done before the home buyer closed on the house. The title company would not know because the company had not filed when it was still Richard Fullers property. We
ended just paying the $500 owed to Co-serv and they released the lien from our property.
It has been a year since the lien was put on our house and
I have checked with Co-serv and Richard Fuller has still not paid them so several home owners do not know a lien still exsists on their residence.
Even though we are out $500.more dollars, it was worth it not having to deal with these insufficient Richard Fuller Home employees.
We have been in our house almost a year and still have several issues not addressed and I do not think they ever will.
I cannot understand how a builder gets by with isrepresentation, poor quality work, horrible warranty, and a president that is located in Grapevine, TX that lies to home owners and most of the
time won't even return phone calls.
Contact your title company and let them know this has happened. Ours that we used, will not do any more closings for Richard Fuller Homes.
Homebuyers need to be sure they see proof that all subs have been paid before they close.
#100
Sun, October 21, 2001
They filed the following to the above Rip-Off Report:
Their email: cschnackel@fourteen.net
Their name: CS
Their relationship to the company: Consumer Suggestion
Rebuttal:
Yours is about the fourth or fifth complaint on here about Fuller Homes now...ours is one of them. These liens I'm reading about, not just on this site, but elsewhere, are scarey. We went to our county's website and also the county courthouse to check records and see if our house had a lien the first time we heard it happened to someone else. Homebuyers need to be
sure they see proof that all subs have been paid before they close. You would think the title company would do this, but as usual, the consumer has to do their job, too. Title insurance for the home buyer is another option but you have to pay extra for it.
We have not found a lien on ours, but we've had numerous warranty issues that we're still fighting to get fixed. We found a great deal of help from Homeowners Against Deficient Dwellings, www.hadd.com , and ripoff report has been helpful too. HUD has also stepped in and assisted in getting the
warranty honored not only by Fuller but the warranty company.
We hope our situation will be resolved soon, but even if things go "smoothly" from now on, we're still looking at several months of living in a construction zone while extensive repairs are made, plus coordinating all the workers schedules, restoring things after repairs, and god forbid...dealing with anything else we find when they tear into it. How I wish I'd found somthing like this site before we bought so we could've
avoided this whole Fuller-induced nightmare!!!
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Fri, October 19, 2001
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