Centex and Hutto

[love roses]

It was more Lennar than Centex. In fact, the only people I ever heard with complaints or even read of in the paper were people who lived in Lennars.

[austin-steve]

Originally Posted by mark311

I think you would be best served to look at some Centex homes in person. We looked at quite a few Centex homes 2 years ago and they all just seemed to be built out as a cheaper quality home than all the others that we looked at. They would probably be fine as a starter home, but walking into a new Centex home and then walking into a new David Weekly home was like night and day for us anyway.

Any of these builders who try to compete at the value price point will have basically the same product built by essentially the same subcontractors.

It's sort of like buying a base model $9K to $11K car, Of course it's no frills and cheap, but that's what it takes to build a home in the lwoest price range.

Much of Lennar's problems were actually with the roof trusses and how they were too tightly attached to the homes, thereby not allowing the normal expansion and contraction, which caused walls to crack which caused people to assume the slab was bad. There were slab problems also, but most of their trouble was actually cracking in the walls of the home. And, ironically, that had absolutely nothing to do with the product but rather the manner in which the subcontractor installed the roof.

Steve

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

I just saw a home in the listings built by Centex in N. Central Austin that was fixed and had a lifetime warranty.

[ROY DUBOSE]

was a thread on here a couple of weeks ago blasting kb homes and the foundation issue -- seems like the common thread is the area and the soil (not to mention folks that got unhappy with a cracked house)