Update on Builder and Home

A few disappointments with our builder since the closing, but overall we love our home. We've had to repair quite a few things on our house through contractors, etc. and the builder pretty much dropped us after closing and won't return our calls or emails. Pretty disappointing! We know they are busy, but very frustrating for new home builders needing help on repairs that were a result of the building process that you don't realize are broken or need repair until AFTER you move into the home.

Other major concern for us is our lawn... the builder did not grade our yard properly one final time before sod was laid, so we have grooves throughout our entire lawn, uneven ground and holes where water had washed the dirt away during a hard rain storm before they sodded, and big areas have sunk around the house. We plan to landscape to cover up the horrible grading/sodding job.

To add to that, our free included sprinkler system was not installed correctly. Several heads were installed crooked, too low, or at an angle, so that don't spray properly soaking the ground around each head causing them to sink lower into the ground. The sprinkler co. has come to our house twice to repair and we're still having problems with sinking. One hole around the sprinkler took a 5-gallon bucket of dirt to fill in the sink hole.

We also just set up our workout room in the basement this week and found out the $140 outlets we installed in the basement are connected to a breaker on the main floor, so we can't use our treadmill because it draws too much power. Pretty crappy considering it is the only thing plugged in down there. What a waste of $140!

And... the painters didn't give us any left over interior paint for our house, so we don't know what color it is. So hard to repaint over scratches or drywall patches (they had to repair) if we don't have the color/paint to do it.

We're contacting our builder again and we'll see if we get a response this time. Very frustrating!!!