If I could give no stars I would. I would never buy a DR Horton home again. The quality is garbage. All they care about is getting the house build fast, not built right. We have been in our home approx. 18 months and are still undergoing warranty repairs.
Starting with the building process, the communication was horrible. We were never even allowed to speak with the contractor or foramen, we worked with the sales guy who never knew what was actually happening with our home. We were given the wrong dates for walk throughs (which then we missed our opportunity altogether), and there were changes made to the floor plan that were never communicated to us.
-The week we closed, we pulled out 40lbs of drywall scrapes from the first floor ceiling. The drywall crew was too lazy to dispose of it in the dumpster, so they threw it in the ceiling. A year later, the rest of the first floor was opened up, and again removed drywall scrapes and other garbage from their ceiling.
-We were told the whole house had been primed and painted. It is the low grade builder paint, which we knew and we weren't considered because we were planning to have the whole house painted the week we closed. However, we later were told they what they consider "primed" is simply two coats of paint. Primer is primer, not paint. We did not learn this until after the whole house was professional painted, and now there are lines everywhere because the house was never actually primed with real primer.
-We lost several shingles from the roof within the first couple month of living here.
-Flooring on the first floor is bubbling and even cracked in spots. They only acknowledge/fixed one section, saying that the unlevel areas still meets "builder standards".
-The first floor powder room wall was so bowed, they had to come and build it out with mud. It was a huge mess and took several days to complete.
-The HVAC system is a disaster, the second floor is freezing in the winter and so hot in the summer. Multiple people have been out to assess it yet nothing is ever resolved.
-This is only listing the bigger issues - there have been lists and lists of touchups. If I could go back, I would have never bought this home. It is so disappointing. We thought buying new construction was the safe route, keeping us free from issues/repairs at least for the first few years. That has not been the case. read more