We picked our lot in October 2002. The closing was set for January 20, 2003. As of December 1, 2002, they had not even started building. I was in Houston and paid a woman to come once a week and take pics to email to me. For 2 months I had pics of dirt. Finally I called the realtor on 12/1/02 to find out WTH was going on. She went to the lot and called me and said nothing's been done, but don't worry, we haven't missed a closing yet. The building started the 2nd week in december and they built my house in 33 days. My neighbor's said it looked like an army of ants was working on our house. We closed on 1/20 and the tenant I had lined up to rent the house moved in on February 1. We had about 5 minor problems during the walk-thru the day before the closing and 1 major problem 4 days after the closing. The washing machine wouldn't work and when they pulled it out to replace it, we discovered the pipe from the washer to the drain had never been connected and the entire wall had to be replaced. Called home warranty and within 1 hour - I kid you not - the drywall person was out and had the wall torn out and replaced. The painter showed up the next morning and we were back in business. We moved here full-time in 8/04 and we've never been happier. Some of my neighbors here in Springdale are now have mold problems and 3 had had to have their shower floors replaced because they were not graded correctly. And home warranty does not cover floors. A neighbor acorss the street is today having the vanity in her bathroom ripped out and the entire wall removed because the plumber did not caulk the sink in the bathrooms. Evidently our builder Chicerillo (I'm sure that's not how you spell it) was the best because we've had no other structural problems except that the floors are not square which made adding hardwood floors last year a little bit of a pain.
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