Ryan Homes incentives

[htlong]

Ohio girl.......have you ever purchased a home?
when you are dealing with a self proclaimed established builder you have what is known as a walk through inspection.
all of your money is tied up in the building of your new home,and moving expenses.
a purchaser should be able to trust a established builder and 99% of the time your new house will be built correct,but then you have Ryan homes who offers thousands of dollars of extras luring you into trusting them,they would be appalled and make you feel terrible if you had a outsider inspecting their work.
bottom line Ryan homes was run out of Ohio in the 70's and started a come back in the eighties but the quality remains the same!! near zero!

from the workers to the salesman they are bad, a good Carpenter wont do a bad job, and will quit working for them,which leaves workers who barely know how to turn on their power tools.

read the horror stories on this forum......do you think its a personal vendetta?
no its a warning about a builder with no morals and a lot of lawyers.....believe you are getting a deal if you like but god help you . the odds for trouble far out weigh the well built home from Ryan

[Briolat21]

Well - for one thing, OhioGirl was responding to a person who said they were the 3rd owner of a house. I agree, (having just built a Ryan home in 2008) that it is more difficult to have a house inspector in when you are having the house built (because all your money is tied up with the builder already). But if you are the 2nd, or 3rd, or 5th, or 10th owner of a house - you really should be getting a building inspector.

And I know you've had problems with Ryan homes - but look at the statistics. There are not 40,000 or even 10,000 complaints against Ryan on the internet (or anywhere else). There are maybe 50 or 100 different ones. Maybe. So, that's really not any different than any other big builder (Pulte, Centex, Maronda, etc..). So, while you may think they are the worst builder in history, not everyone else feels that way.

I have had some issues with my house, but not even close to the way you feel. Would I recommend them to someone else? I would, but with a few caveats.

Sorry you've had such a poor experience, I do think that is terrible, but I'm still not ready to paint the company with such a broad brush.

[htlong]

get a job building a Ryan home and you will see how every corner gets cut or just the what the heck attitude that is maintained.
most people dont notice or think that walls should crack or moulding shouldn't fit without a gap, or doors that dont close properly,or figure its the house just settling..........you can buy one if you want but the odds are against you of getting a quality built house....thank god there are building codes or Ryan wouldn't buy anything but 2x4's

[todd72173]

We went to a 10 YR old RYAN development. Home we liked had roof shingles coming unglued. Other homes next to it had same problem! Front door would not even open easily - offline. Went to basement, it was flooded already! They had to fix sump pump and clean it up. After that, we left. The other homes in the development looked so worn. Please drive through older ryan developments first before making a purchase. We will NEVER BUY RYAN or even consider it.

[HoemOwnre]

Honestly, I Built a Ryan home In brimfield Ohio and I lvoe it! They did everythign I wanted them to do, Fixed any of the minor issues that arose, which do come up with any new house built. Houses are built by hand. Work by hand has blemishes always. My only sugestion woudl be to visit the Job site every day at some point, The workers and contractors do notice and tend to pay attention to the detail becahse they know, or think that you are doing the same. you would be amazed as to how many people just glance at the construction once or twice during the process.

[htlong]

Originally Posted by HoemOwnre

Honestly, I Built a Ryan home In brimfield Ohio and I lvoe it! They did everythign I wanted them to do, Fixed any of the minor issues that arose, which do come up with any new house built. Houses are built by hand. Work by hand has blemishes always. My only sugestion woudl be to visit the Job site every day at some point, The workers and contractors do notice and tend to pay attention to the detail becahse they know, or think that you are doing the same. you would be amazed as to how many people just glance at the construction once or twice during the process.

I hope you love it 5 or 10 yrs from now when everything starts rotting and sagging,I have no vendetta towards ryan,I am just stating facts from what I have seen, I was told once dont worry about it its a Ryan house from the foreman I worked for, just hurry it up the siding will cover it .......I quit and found a new builder to work for.
people arent just making these horror stories up but do what you want live and learn....

[000000]

this arguement is so akward because it feels like people are reciting company lines for both ryan and its competitors.

[WeSoHood]

Are htlong and rrjackson the same person? Or do they love posting right after each other 20 times in a row... C'mon... kinda pathetic.

[rrjackson]

I don't post anon anywhere about Ryan Homes. I don't know who HTlong is. He seems to be talking about shoddy construction. That's synonymous with tract housing, and if that's all I had to say about RH I wouldn't even be posting, though I do appreciate his helping us avoid the desired isolation builders seek to put victims in. I do know Carmen Wright, who added to this thread. It's the consequences to our defective home I'm mostly referring to.

We are people whose lives were absolutely wrecked by dealing with Ryan Homes. It only took one critical criminal code violation to destroy our home twice. We couldn't return it to Walmart like lawn furniture, nor could we just throw it away and buy another new one. This wasn't unpleasant, it was disastrous.

Ryan Homes knew we were in this disastrous situation as a result of their work, like on a sinking ship that has finally drowned us. They had a life preservers but flatly said, we don't have to help you, we're big and nobody can make us, and they have watched us sink.

How this rates statistically, I don't see how a conscionable person would even care. We are a documented case where this builder broke law and got away with it. Doing the "right thing" was irrelevant, and now they want it to go away. American greed is destroying people's lives, and who wants to rationalize it? Guess it just depends on which end of the scam you're on.

IMO your dealing with a builder who has destroyed someone for profit. If that's not a concern, take heed, there is nothing that prevents them from doing it to another buyer.

[smooth2cool]

Not sure how much this will help – I live in Pittsburgh and I own a Ryan Home. I’ve been in it for over a year and so far, so good. My experience with them has been nothing less that great. I had a couple of issues after moving in; however, they fixed everything without issues and did it quick. I think the reason for our (me and my neighbors) success is that we had a great Project Manager. No matter whom you build with, talk to people who have experience with that builder. Also, if you can, drive thru the neighborhood and query the people that live their. They’ll give you the best advice.