IF I/we had to do it all over again, I/we would have had a stick home made in 2013, instead of…read morepaying 9% interest for a home that's tiny & uncomfortable . We had good service from Ken our salesman. However, we were stuck with mustard-colored, "Grey Poupon" color outside of our home, that we didn't order. We ordered a light brown. They didn't have it in stock, so just slapped this ugly yellow color on the outside of our home. It's ugly. Also, our carpet is beige, & who orders a beige carpet in OR? Not us! Ken tried to make changes, but the company could have cared less about anything AFTER the final sale, but we got stuck.
Our AC unit took a dump 2 years after we moved in (2014), & it was a hassle getting the company to fix it. It was still under warranty. It shouldn't have happened, but the unit was a mid-grade or lower unit. It posed a very big problem for us.
Hard wired smoke alarms were OUTDATED before home was finished & set onto our property @ end of '13. Nothing but issues with them for a long while, until we checked the dates on all 5 of them. They had been expired before home was set onto our property.
Upon arrival, move-in date, this home looked like a tornado blew through. Many things didn't work & handymen were here every other week for about 1 year. They didn't fix the lighting fixtures in 1 of the bathrooms, & it fell on my head. I wasn't hurt badly, just scraped on left side of face. This was because fixtures weren't screwed in properly. Totally unprofessional & sloppy.
Also, all frames on windows on outside had, after 4-5 years, developed mold, bc the frames weren't adhered properly. We paid out over $3,000 to have frames properly adhered, & continue to do so every 2-3 years. This was negligence. It was sloppy, again unprofessional.
Ken did what he could. I can't complain. However, I feel we got raked hard with this home, & I can't wait to sell it. I don't want to spend my last years here & I/we want out of Lane County, OR period.
In all, I/we appreciate all the help from Ken. He got us out of our Creswell, OR home, to a lot more privacy & outside room, 1.92 acres. It felt great to leave Creswell, the most unfriendly city I've ever lived, to this home in Elmira, OR. It was Ken who made the move happen.