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6250 Hazeltine National Dr. #114 Orlando, 32822 Florida, U.S.A.
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Meadows Homes Meadows Properties Failure to complete home construction Rude and incompetent Obvious Financial Troubles!! North Port orlando other Southern States Now! Ripoff Florida Louisiana Alabama Mississippi Alabama Georgia
Meadows Homes is an incompetent new home construction company that is unable to produce what they promise! We had a home built by them that was promised to be completed within 8-11 months from the time of financing approval. Do not believe it!
The first stages of construction were actually right on time and speedy. The time frame until near completion was not much of an issue. The work they performed at times was substandard however. My jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom had to be reframed, tiled, an attempted install 7 different times. Even after telling them the obvious way of completing in correctly would be to set the tub and frame around it if there is that much difficulty, it took them 7 times to try this. Now the tub is in, not straight by any means, but is in there. (We had to rewire the electrical to make it work and retile the face)! I payed for upgraded attic insulation to R-30. After move in we realized they only went to an R-19 value. I payed extra for an irrigation system and St. Augustine grass that I like.($4500) There are many dead areas from the time it was laid. It was never replaced. I was required to pay extra for an aerobic septic system ($7000) that electricity was never wired to. I paid an electrician to do this.($200) There are multiple areas of defects in the drywall that I have repaired including a gaping hole in the living room where they cut out to access the bathroom tub. The carpet has visible seams throughout the house where it looks like they pieced it together from multiple jobs. There are lumps of rock under multiple area of the carpet where the concrete was never swept prior to laying the carpet. There are many spots on the exterior and interior of the house of missed paint. The wrong color of sink was installed in the kitchen. I bought one to replace it myself.($275) There were multiple areas of cracked grout in our tile floors. I had to extend my gutters per city code to receive a C.O.($200)
These are only a small portion of complaints and costs I have. We were required to obtain a construction loan which I highly recommend you do not do. You are paying on the loan more and more each month regardless if work is being completed. We were at $1350/month plus $500 every 2 months approximately because we had to keep extending the loan outside of 12 months. The house was 92% complete and basically move in ready, including the sod laid, in July of 2006. We were promised that we would be living in the home by the time the kid's school started in August. Construction stayed at a standstill until January of 2007 when we hired an attorney to legally terminate Meadows Homes as our builder. We had to pay the attorney (approx.$1300), the impact fees that weren't paid($6700!), and bring the house to code so we could move in. There was a lien placed from the sod company in which the attorney had to contest. No reply and no payment from Meadows. As soon as I fired them they immediately placed a lien on our home for $23000, which was the amount of the final construction loan draw check in which I received to complete the home myself.
I wish for others sake that I was the only person who this happened to, but since it has there have been several others who have contacted me in the same situation. Now they have seemed to stop building in North Port, Fl and moving on to other states doing new construction for other states including rebuilding for those victimized by Hurricane Katrina. I can only hope that they are not hit with a double whammy by using Meadows Homes. If this saves one person from entering into our situation that we thought would be our dream home that turned nightmare, we would be thrilled. Keep in mind all this was just a brief summary!! Buyer Beware!!
William
North Port, Florida
U.S.A.
The first stages of construction were actually right on time and speedy. The time frame until near completion was not much of an issue. The work they performed at times was substandard however. My jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom had to be reframed, tiled, an attempted install 7 different times. Even after telling them the obvious way of completing in correctly would be to set the tub and frame around it if there is that much difficulty, it took them 7 times to try this. Now the tub is in, not straight by any means, but is in there. (We had to rewire the electrical to make it work and retile the face)! I payed for upgraded attic insulation to R-30. After move in we realized they only went to an R-19 value. I payed extra for an irrigation system and St. Augustine grass that I like.($4500) There are many dead areas from the time it was laid. It was never replaced. I was required to pay extra for an aerobic septic system ($7000) that electricity was never wired to. I paid an electrician to do this.($200) There are multiple areas of defects in the drywall that I have repaired including a gaping hole in the living room where they cut out to access the bathroom tub. The carpet has visible seams throughout the house where it looks like they pieced it together from multiple jobs. There are lumps of rock under multiple area of the carpet where the concrete was never swept prior to laying the carpet. There are many spots on the exterior and interior of the house of missed paint. The wrong color of sink was installed in the kitchen. I bought one to replace it myself.($275) There were multiple areas of cracked grout in our tile floors. I had to extend my gutters per city code to receive a C.O.($200)
These are only a small portion of complaints and costs I have. We were required to obtain a construction loan which I highly recommend you do not do. You are paying on the loan more and more each month regardless if work is being completed. We were at $1350/month plus $500 every 2 months approximately because we had to keep extending the loan outside of 12 months. The house was 92% complete and basically move in ready, including the sod laid, in July of 2006. We were promised that we would be living in the home by the time the kid's school started in August. Construction stayed at a standstill until January of 2007 when we hired an attorney to legally terminate Meadows Homes as our builder. We had to pay the attorney (approx.$1300), the impact fees that weren't paid($6700!), and bring the house to code so we could move in. There was a lien placed from the sod company in which the attorney had to contest. No reply and no payment from Meadows. As soon as I fired them they immediately placed a lien on our home for $23000, which was the amount of the final construction loan draw check in which I received to complete the home myself.
I wish for others sake that I was the only person who this happened to, but since it has there have been several others who have contacted me in the same situation. Now they have seemed to stop building in North Port, Fl and moving on to other states doing new construction for other states including rebuilding for those victimized by Hurricane Katrina. I can only hope that they are not hit with a double whammy by using Meadows Homes. If this saves one person from entering into our situation that we thought would be our dream home that turned nightmare, we would be thrilled. Keep in mind all this was just a brief summary!! Buyer Beware!!
William
North Port, Florida
U.S.A.
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Spencer
Orlando,Florida,
U.S.A.
Inside Information on William's Experience with Meadows
#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, April 28, 2009
In an effort to try and clear our name from the rip off title that William from North Port has labeled our company with; I would like to use this forum to shed some light on this matter. My name is Spencer and I worked hand and hand with the owner of this property and the superintendents that worked for our company at during the construction of his home. First let me say that our company didn't directly sell William his home or promise a delivery date on the home for William in the 8-11 month range. In the City of North Port there are approximately 37 inspections to CO a home and if you talk to any builder in the area, at the time that the home was built, they would have told you that it takes about 1 -2 years (on average) to complete a home. Permitting at this time took approximately about 6 months to get the septic permit from the county and then the building permit from the City of North Port. Things did move smoothly in the beginning but as we had problems during the construction we informed William and I personally met him on the job several times to go over issues at hand. I was never rude to him however, if being honest wasn't what he wanted to hear then maybe that is being rude. I don't deny that there were things that needed to be done to finish the house, as the home was not completed by us. William owned the lot and since things weren't moving to his expectations he tried to strong arm us by not allowing access to the job as well as denying payment for work that we completed; i.e. us placing liens on the property as well as the job stopping construction from time to time. Our company didn't force charge William any extra money to put in an aerobic septic system. This is what engineering called for on the land that he purchased and owned. This need was determined by the Health Department of Sarasota County. The extra cost that William had to pay was more than covered by the $23,000 that our company gave him to cover all of these cost as well as any interest payments that he felt that he was due because of time lost on the job and the inconvenience that he felt; whether it was warranted or not we gave William about $15,000 of our profit. The statement that William has had to pay for all of these items, attorneys, payment to contractors, repairs on the home etcis completely false. His total cost to finish the home was about $10,000 and that included his attorneys' fees too, so Meadows paid for all of these items plus much more. We have built hundreds of homes for customers in the Gulf Coast area and while every customer wasn't completely satisfied we've done our best to deliver the best product as quickly as possible. William doesn't know anything about our companies' financial situation and we have stopped building in the area because there isn't enough business to justify having an office opened at this time, even though we still own a Model Home in the City of North Port. This matter was settled about 2 years ago.
