mrswallace
Smyrna,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, January 01, 2013
We bought our home in September 2009 and are very pleased with this builder. When we came for our final walk-through on the day of settlement the house was in immaculate, move-in condition. We were beyond excited to get settled in. We looked at homes from practically every builder in New Castle and Kent County over the period of a few years and have multiple reasons for buying from this builder, including the quality of the structure of these homes.
Many of the other homes didn't have the structural quality that these have and many other builders also charge a ton of money for many of the features that come standard in these houses, including a side 3-car garage in our model which is their largest (the Century- 4200 sq ft). Of course they're not perfect, but what builder is? They could have a better landscaping package, but other than that, for the square footage, you won't get these prices anywhere else.
Southern View is a close-knit community with good neighbors who all take excellent care of their homes. Many of them are successful business owners and successful professionals. I feel honored to live in a prominent community where there are other hardworking people who worked hard to own homes as beautiful as these.
Every issue we've had with our home has been addressed by the builder, and they are starting to pick back up on building more homes here. There will be a total of around 100 homes in this development, and there are currently slightly over 50. Nearly 10 have been built and sold since we've been here, but now that the housing market is picking up, more new construction has started.
This will be a beautiful community when it's completely finished.
Prior to buying here, I heard about the problems people had when J I Schwartz was known as Double S builders, but it didn't stop me from buying and I'm glad I did.