Well it has been awful doing business with Blue Ribbon Homebuilders Inc in Labelle Fl. If you would like to have your home built and have any kind of reasonable realistic time frame expectation, you need to go find another builder Immediately. If you want to be "NOT TOLD THE TRUTH", Undergo Excessive Delays, Have Many Broken Promises, Poor Communications, No Attention To Requests, Being Completely Ignored, excuses for everything, Have Work Started Without Posting Your Permit And Without Posting Your Notice Of Concement, Well then you have picked the right builder. Jeff Onorato did not even show up on time for the very first meeting we scheduled with him, a meeting scheduled two weeks in advance. We drove 3 1/2 hours to meet Jeff at his office in Labelle and when he was not there we waited another 45 minutes. Unfortunately we did not run as fast as we could at that point in order to avoid this horrible nightmare we got ourselves into, a very bad call for us. Anyhow we started looking at his spec homes on December 2nd, 2019 made some modifications to one of his spec plans and finally signed a contract May 5th, 2020 At this point today, just under 8 months we have a pile of fill dirt an empty contractors permit box and a porta jon at our property. We made many requests for a copy of our house plans and never received one, asked and never received one, asked again and still have never received one. The plans got approved at the building department and we have no clue what they approved because we still have never received a final copy of the build plans. We scheduled a meeting with Jeff to work out some of the issues and the next week it was back to the same old way of doing business "Horrible". We challenged him about walking away and settling up because nothing was happening and at 8pm we get a text that the fill dirt and the spreader will be there in the morning, well actually that really did happen. Later we requested Jeff to stop all production of everything so we could regroup and get our thoughts together as we were ready to cancel this contract again and were actively seeking legal advice. He totally disrespected our request to stop and on the following Monday morning he picked up our building permit after it had been sitting there approved for three weeks. Tuesday morning he decides to file a Notice Of Commencement for us without our authorization. I am not sure how he has achieved 5 Google decent reviews out of nine. He must know those people and requested good reviews. We were given addresses of two completed homes to look at the quality of his work from the road. We eventually found out that both of those homes were built for his stepdaughters and we actually met the one family outside and the statement was we have to talk good about them Jeff he is her stepdad. We are so disappointed with Blue Ribbon Home Builders Inc. The way Jeff disrespects you, your time, your requests and in general the way this man does business is the worst customer service person in history. We were building a $185K home, we were a cash buyers with no bank involvement and all of the money was paid in full in escrow at the title company. Where did we go wrong. Picking Blue Ribbon Homebuilders is were we went wrong and we hope you do not make the same mistake. This is true and accurate of what happened to me and my personal opinion . read more

It took Jeff 14 months to build a 1500sf home, from 2018 to 2019. Unbelievable. He never listened once about what I we wanted. We had to remind him. The house has issues. Hired a real estate Lawyer. Then Covid hit. He hasn't once called or been back to fix the issues, since. RUN from this company. You will be better off with ANY other builder. read more

In my last review I stated that I signed contract in Dec 2020 and was having horrible communication issues and delayed work. Here we are April 2023 and my house is still not finished! At one point I was told it would be finished June of 2022!!!! I knew that was a lie but it gave me hope that maybe it would be done before Christmas of that year. Fat chance in hell! I was told once again my house should be done in about 3 weeks which would have been around March 20th 2023. It took 1 year for my slab to be poured, mind you it was during covid so I let that go. However, once the slab was poured my small 2/2 house should have taken approximately 9months to build. We are now 16 months past the slab being poured. All and all, almost 2 and a half years after the signing of the contract. I WISH I could say that the delaying and slowness of the build was my most infuriating problem but it's not. For me, the worst part about Blue Ribbon is the FACT that they do not respond to your questions in a timely manner. I've found myself asking the same question repeatedly for weeks and sometimes months with still no answer. Oh and FYI, Jeff hides behind the assigned liaison. one time I had set an appointment to speak with Jeff, when I arrived I was told he had a family emergency so I was only able to speak to the same person I had always been in contact with, talk about fuming!! There are so many issues I've encountered along the way that if knew what I know now, I never would have gone with them. However, if you have 3 yrs to build a small home and have no questions you want answered then by all means, it's not a bad build. The process of it is the pure infuriating part because of all the lack of communication, lack of acceptable response time, lack of diligence and so on. read more