Ryan Homes - Good or Bad experiences (Charlotte: sale, apartment)

[budfan8]

We have a Ryan Home in Chery Grove subdivison in Mooresville. We have been here three years now and have no problems. They sales manager was very nice and we didn't feel pushed into anything. We have had to have the siding on the back of the house fixed after a heavy windstorm, but they were out the day after we called about it. Also we had a window that was sticking and called and they were there two days later after the call was made. Our building went smoothly and there were no delays. we got the options we asked for and are thinking of building another home soon and we want to stay with Ryan. Our financing went smoothly with NVR also. The gentleman we worked with was wonderful and bent over backwards to get us the best finacing availiable. This was our first home ever, and we were very please that all went smoothly. Hope this helps!.

[njguy23]

I visited a development today Stonebridge. They were townhomes. Anyone get a home in there and were satisfied or disliked it???

[acperez]

Put a down payment for a Ryan Home at the Sutton Place community in Ft Mill, SC less than 10 days ago. We were very impressed with the quality that we saw and the professionalism they treated us with. But at the same time we understand that they are sales people, so once they "hook" you, things might be different. We are worried about the NVR Mortgage company, because we have read many posts, here and elsewhere, talking about their bad and tricky reputation. We are tied with using them because of the incentives....

any input on the community, Ryan workmanship, issues at Sutton Place? NVR? Any help would be appreciated... Thanks.

[PharmD/MBA]

We will be closing on our home in Sutton place on 6/18. Melissa and Steve have been great throughout the whole process not just at the sale. Chad and Jason, our construction supervisors call each Friday just to let us know what happened the previous week and what is planned for our home the next week. You will be amazed at how quickly the home goes up, but as far as we can tell (I have brought my father and my step-father, both in construction) and they say the workmanship is fine. Not a million dollar home but definitely not substandard. Good luck on your home. As a side note, we are on Snuggles ave, where will you be located?

[German Velez]

I hired Tom Hammond at (704) 504-0260. I do not remember where I got his name but it was something like the Ceramic Council of America or close to it. The report cost me $300 but I think it was worth every penny. It was only after that report that Ryan Homes/L&L did something about it. I hope this helps...

[acperez]

PharmD/MBA,

I absolutely agree, Melissa has been awesome for us since the beginning. We picked a model that wouldn't fit in Snuggles Ave, which is what we would have preferred b/c of the cul-de-sac, but we are in Faison Avenue, and are very excited. I am in construction too, but are coming down from Miami, so I will have to find a way to get up there or at least, stay in touch with them to make sure things go smoothly. Our house is scheduled to start construction in December, so it's still a ways away. Thanks for the info. If you don't mind me asking, are you dealing with NVR Mortgage? If so, any issues?

Thanks again.

[rrjackson]

We had a nightmarish experience with Ryan Homes and have several letters from others who also experienced disasters thanks to either Ryan Homes or NVR mortgage. If you can afford to gamble around 300k-600k on Ryan you might come out okay. If not, there's often little you can do but eat the loss, like we had to. Ryan Homes wipes out most of its disasters with gag orders in exchange for warranty service or recovery from defects due to shoddy construction. An actual sample of this is on the Ed's rip-off report web site, where the web site owner refused to comply with Ryan's typical gag order, that's required in exchange-in this case for repairs of an entire subdivision of victims.

Also check HOBB.ORG and learn the dark side of the big builder business in general, and maybe avoid the hidden dark side of whoever you buy from. We're ryanhomesnightmare.com. Of course you're free to believe whatever you want either way. Click on my e-mail address at our site if you have questions or want letter copies of only a small percent of victims this company has created. We wouldn't take a free home from Ryan Homes, but that's just from are experience. And NVR mortgage scams our very real, and yes their face often changes real quick if anything goes wrong, once they own you.

[FLtoNC]

Originally Posted by rrjackson

We had a nightmarish experience with Ryan Homes

Care to share your nightmarish experience?

[sammy827]

Originally Posted by Bill_M

Has anyone built with Ryan Homes? Any experiences good or bad when you used them? Do they have a reputation in the Charlotte area as good/bad cheap/expensive, etc.?

Both of the houses that we built were with Ryan homes. We loved both of them. The first was our starter home ..Vienna model. The next one that we built was the Dunkirk model, loved it very open floor plan.

But that was in Ohio. I can not give you any advice for here in Charlotte

[rrjackson]

Originally Posted by FLtoNC

Care to share your nightmarish experience?

What part? NVR stealing the county tax and connection fees and making us pay them twice?
The defects that destroyed our home and health?
The personal threats from customer service as a reply?
The legal threats from corporate?
The worthless 2-10 warranty?
I know not all their homes are nightmares, but understand if they are, there's very little you can do thanks to the NAHB legalizing embarrassingly low guidelines by the standards of truly professional contractors, and lack of enforcement of current codes and laws. It does very much depend on who's managing the subdivision. Dwight Schar (NVR CEO) and GW Bush are good buddies, so that might tell you something.