100% Dissatisfied with Lankford Custom Homes! Buying ones first house should be a once in a life time wonderful event, not a horrible nightmare. Lankford has built a new home and it has, as a inspector recorded "Very poor workmanship & amateurish installation"!
It saddens me that a builder of any kind would do this sort of work to any buyer!
Everyone please be aware that in the State of Texas there is very little consumer protection for new home buyers. But if you are willing to put in the time, you can file a report with the BBB, Have signs made warning before you buy, and place them around town, and on your car. file a complaint with HADD, Contact all elected officials by letter and phone, contact the TRCC, this may be costly but worth it! File a complaint with the Federal trade Commission. Most of all contact the city and review city records. Will try to go after the subcontractors also. There are many licensing boards. Plan a peaceful protest in front of the business with your signs. Try the news stations. Plane to visit all surrounding cities and ask for permits to be declined until the house is fixed. Please wish me luck on this endeavor!
Whether you build a million dollar home or a $165,000 home, there should be integrity! All we want is a house done right, we aren't after perfection, just a house done right, that is safe and comfortable!
We want a driveway, where soil was washed out from under it to be corrected, we want floor tile that is professionally installed, not where it stops a inch away from cabinets, we want a roof with sealed shingles and all lumps and bumps removed from roof under shingles, we want insulation placed in the attic, we want the master tub that is tiled up the side to have something at the top other than exposed rough tile, we want a window that's not bowed, we want painted walls and trim that aren't poorly and amateurish done! We want the Hardie siding that was cut too short to be re done, We want the gaps, cracks and damaged grout to be replaced. We want all out leading doors sealed, so you can't the day light through them. We want window screens on windows, We would prefer the attic door stairs installed correctly with correct size screws not finishing nails, we would like the wall plates and receptacles installed flush with wall, not to be a fire hazard! We would like the laundry receptacles to be ground fault protected. We would like a dedicated plug for the refrigerator. We would like the air vents properly strapped/secured up and not touching the others! We would like kitchen cabinets that you can actually open with out bending all the way down and grab from the bottom. We would like the carpet spot,dent in bedroom, as if someone left a hunk of padding out, a hole you dip down in, as you walk. Lankford, we aren't asking for much, as any respectable builder would have done these things, by the way we had no construction foreman, nor do you get a builders walk through, of course this isn't the million dollar home but the $165,000 home that is being purchased! It should not matter!! read more
