Rick
Gearhart,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, December 16, 2008
To have the back of a coat stitched with friends don't let friend buy any Palm Harbor Homes is $35 where I live. Make business cards on your computer to hand out sending people to this web site when they ask about what's on the coat. I feel for you, our house is one of the most expensive they build. It constantly needs repairs because of poor workmanship and cheap products. It always chaps my butt when the insurance people ask questions about my trailer. I just tell them it is four wide so we went ahead and took the wheels off. You may end up deciding to let the bank take the house back, as you might repair your credit more easily than you can keep up with the house falling apart. I don't know if PH owns the company that financed yours, but they may. Not a fun decision. Then later you can stick build a real house in less time than this one took, and in our case for about the same money. I now know that I should have taken pictures and their sales handouts for dimensions, and built the floor plan traditionally.
Lisa
Riesel,#3Consumer Comment
Sun, August 24, 2008
Take my word for it. After living in one for 16 years.....they are shiza. From top to bottom. It won't take long for things to go wrong and they start as soon as the warranty runs out. Plumbing explosions, having to cut huge holes in the walls to get to the plumbing to replace it(yeah..go look behind your tub...that's how you replace it!),poor windows that let in hot air and cold air($400 or better cooling and heating bill),overhead leaking on the stove when it rains, leaks around light fixtures during rain, cheap MOTOR HOME BATH TUBS INSTALLED, leaky toilets that ruin the underside of your lenoleum(if you have dark colored...be very afraid, as you cannot see the water stains through the darker stuff), constant rodent invasions due to the gigantic gaps around all the plumbing, white french doors that turned yellow after a year and leaked all under the carpet, causing major floor damage, super cheap carpeting(worst I have seen), crooked cabinet doors and just basically, almost everything is unlevel...... To put it inna nutshell....DO NOT BUY FROM PALM HARBOR. If you have one already....give it time...the demons will arrive once that warranty has expired.....
Countrygirl72
Evington,#4Consumer Comment
Wed, July 09, 2008
Me and my husband have been in our new Palm Harbor Home for about 8 months now and everything has been fantastic so if you are looking for bad things to read about this company you may want to skip on to the next topic. I found this website about 10 or 11 months ago after we had just closed the loan to purchase our new Discovery Buckeye home. Needless to say I was totally shocked and extremely worried from some of the things that were found specifically about the Lynchburg model center where we had bought. I was very suprised to find out about these bad experiences because my sister and another friend of ours both bought homes from the same place and were extremely happy with the home and everyone that they delt with. We confronted our salesman about this website and he said 2 things....first the construction manager that they used awhile ago did have a few unhappy customers so they let him go and they sell about 60 homes a year and have consistantly maintained around 90% customer satisfaction ratings. I was still concerned and asked him to speak with other customers who had recently built homes. Our salesman brought us into the filing office and opened up a drawer with all of the files that were completed in 2007 and told me to take whatever files I wanted and call the people. So I did. I got six peoples names and phone numbers but after calling 3 people that were all happy I stopped. During the construction of our home I was constantly waiting for problems and issues but to our satisfaction the entire job went smoothly. The only issue that we had was not really Greg's fault "the construction manager". He told us when we first started that we may want to put a little money in the loan to bring in some fill dirt because he felt like there may not be enough to backfill properly but we declined because we wanted to save some money. We ending up needing it but instead of charging us for it Greg paid to have the dirt brought in and said that he hoped this would make us very happy...boy did it ever. The entire project took about 90 days. We felt like that was pretty good considering when we had met with several builders they were saying anywhere from 6 months up to a year. The quality of our home has been fantastic for the short time we have been here. Within the first 60 days we had a small crack in a ceramic floor tile but Palm Harbor came out and fixed it within a week and a half after calling them. All of there home are very energy efficient also. We have not had an electric bill over $85 yet and our home is over 2000 sq'. To anyone that is considering a Palm Harbor Home I would highly recommed Palm Harbor Homes of Lynchburg. Palm Harbor builds the absolute best Modular home around....they may be a few dollars more than some other modular companies but the difference is clear the first time you step foot in one. Teresa