custom home builder wa

custom home builder wa
buying a newly constructed house should be an enjoyable experience. Unfortunately, for most consumers, it is a nightmare, stay with them the rest of their lives. A joint statement, which many new home buyers is that they never another house for they had built.

Here's 6 things your builder will probably never tell.

"We market to our company only the best craftsmen to our houses, when in reality, we use the best trade we can find, which means that many are not qualified and day laborers."

Custom and Spec Home Builder offer the work on your home to the lowest bidder. Kinda like the U.S. government. There are some custom builders left to their own work and have their own teams.

"I have a binding contract that prevents me if you are complaining about serious shortcomings in your home after you in. And even better, there is little you can do to me to resolve the problem!"

Read the fine print on the contract. Better yet, a real estate attorney read and explain to you what you have legal recourse should you have any problems after closing. I bet you come from the law firm amazed at how little rights you have when you look at the builders contract.

"If you're really smart, you can hire your own third party code certified home inspector because the public inspectors and also my own inspectors are not here with your best interests at heart!"

Builders today are looking for the third party inspectors to "quality assurance" checks. The problem is, this is just marketing hype more than anything else. In most countries, these third party inspectors need not be licensed to "Construction Inspections". My assistant and I have a long list of items that inspectors either miss or ignore on each new home we inspect. Not once have we found a home that the builders inspector, a majority of the defects.

City and county inspectors are usually about the same as the builders inspector or worse. Many of these inspectors are so up with the work that they are only for 15 to 20 minutes in a home. Moreover, it is not the city or region of the inspectors to search for job processing issues, they are only looking after the health and safety and to protect the city and the region of interest. Just as the builders, there are inspectors to protect the builders, not yours!

If you do not know a good code certified home inspector, or ask to see the American Society of Home Inspectors at ashi.org

"My sales people, and I can tell you everything we want because we are not authorized by the State"

In many states, you will notice that the vendor for the clients are not compatible with the Real Estate Commission, as are real estate agents. In this way they can say whatever they need so that you can buy a house. I have heard only about the sales people promising home buyers just about everything you can imagine that they were buying from their builder. Buyer beware, and to present it in written form before the contract!

"Your home is more than a landfill or a swamp ... maybe."

As prime contractor country is filling up slowly with the new homes, real estate developers and builders are turning to sub prime land. Here in my market, we have subdivisions sitting in landfills, marshes and former rice pies. No priorities are to build a homepage on.

"If you back out of the contract for any reason, we hold serious money to upgrade money" "

Many people are surprised that this is true. In Texas, most builders, contact the Attorney General in your state to see if this is legal. Also, the builder or sales people may tell you differently, but most contracts have a clause that says you will lose your money seriously or upgrade money when you return from the apartment. Get it in writing, what happens when you back, and the steps you need to get your money back. Do not think it will not happen, because I see it happen all the time.

Like any state, county and city is different, you should contact an expert examiner in your area and your property attorney before buying a newly constructed home. So, everything from the GET BUILDER writing! If he promises he throw in a few outlets in the garage for him to put it in the contract.

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Donald Lawson is a Houston Real Estate Inspector licensed in Texas (# 5824) and Oklahoma (# 454). He owns and operates V.I.P. Home Inspections, a multi-inspector firm in Houston, Texas. If you would like to learn more about the tests at home or on Houston Real Estate, simply click on a link here in the Bio-authors.