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Old 06-19-2009, 11:21 AM
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Default Same here....

We also found the house to be very well built. We have a Gardenia, and I was surprised at some of the finer points in the construction. For instance, all of the mouldings are caulked top and bottom, so there are no spaces between the moulding and the walls or the floor. A small thing maybe, but I was in my brother-in-law's new house and there are spaces between the moulding and the walls, and spaces in the corners where the miter cuts are. Looks shoddy compared to my house.
Also the Kohler fixtures throughout were a surprise.
I was at the house a week or so before closing and there were little red stickers around. There were supposed to be repair points. Some of the "problems" were so minor that I couln't find them. By closing all of the red stickers were gone, and everything was flawless.

I give them a big