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Paige of Sebring FL (09/15/08)
We were promised a $6,000 furniture allowance, even up to three months after closing. Then the corporate office out of Ocala said we didn't qualify because our home was a spec. Meaning they financed it while it was being built. We picked out the lot and all the colors etc. We ended up paying a lot more for our house than promised. They had us in a bind. It all started out costing $155,000, we ended up paying $193,000.

I had gotten rid of some of my old furniture while moving into the home. I had to use my income tax return to buy a bed. I just wanted what had been promised to me many times. I also have a newspaper ad showing this offer with nothing saying anything about a spec home.

Cheryl of Avon Park FL (09/12/08)
When Advanced Home Builders,(the Sebring, FL office) started to build our home, they tore out trees they were not authorized to take out, one being a very old oak tree. We were told by Robert, the office manager in Sebring, (he's no longer with Advanced Home builders, he's started his own business with the same concept.) It was an honest mistake. So they built the house, house was done, couldn't get power to it because Advanced told the power company it was aerial, when in fact it had to go under ground.

They didn't do the front of the house right, I'll call it the trim work, so they sent someone out to fix that, that only took 3 months. The a/c wasn't cooling the master bedroom properly, so someone had to come out and fix that, that took 3-4 months. We moved in to this house in Dec.'07. Since then we have been on the phone with the Sebring office and the Ocala office about the things that need to be fixed. I have cracked ceramic tiles in 3 rooms, the stucco on the outside cracked was repaired but never painted, it is cracked again. the trim work is 2 different shades of white, the kitchen faucet is barely on, the trim work is to short so they tried to make it right with caulk, the caulk is on the floor. I have also e-mailed these offices.

Now just today, my husband and I went to Ocala, apparently the Sebring office is closed, and the Ocala office is closed as well with no forwarding. All the phone numbers I have and that are listed have been disconnected. I don't know what we are going to do.

This house is still under warranty. It has caused us alot of mental anxiety. To have this fixed is going to take alot of money, money we don' have.

Albert of Belleview FL (08/07/06)
We are building a home which has been at a standstill one mistake after another one problem on top of another. The slab was poured and the cement was streched which caused a ripple effect the house was built on the slab before it could cure and has caused a huge crack in the slab the walls are up roof is on finish work is complete except for the floor. The builder has promised to rectify the situation by hiring a professional to grind the floor and float it so if in the future we choose to tile or hardwood floor it would be level and smooth. The builder is hiring fly by night people who don't know what they are doing and they are making the problem worse they come at night on a weekend to fudge it and it is just getting progressively worse.

We need professional help at this point and legal advice so we can get this fixed before it is too late. They tried to cover the floors without fixing the floor and we had it removed, a 9 month pregnant woman who couldn't even bend down painted the trim outside, they did not put green board in wet areas and the texture was done in the dark and the outside of the house was done in the rain. The plumbing was put in the wrong place, the shower is bowed out due to the plumbing being installed wrong. The insulation that was in the rafters was pulled out and put in the dumpster when the sheetrockers came to put up the drywall. All the insulation was accounted for prior to the sheetrock guys coming when they left there was several pieces thrown in the front of the home now we don't know where that belonged and where it is missing will cause heat loss and ac loss in the home causing our electric bills to run insuffiecient.

This is inferior work and substandard building the sinks are not level to the countertop the edges are lifed and bent the roof is dipped in several areas, cracked rafters. Main concern at this point is the slab the floor is a nightmare could never be right the contractor for the concrete was fired and the work speaks for itself we are now suffering the effects of that due to the builders inability to make it right.

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