During the build/design process, we were greatly satisfied with the overall ease of building. There were some architectural mishaps along the way, but the builder was quick to correct them with our proposed solutions. We had been very happy with the home until we discovered that the builder falsified records when reporting and certifying our New Construction Energy Code Compliance Certificate. We were told that our AC unit was a 3.5 ton when in fact what was installed was actually a 3 ton unit which was not compliant with the heating loss/gain calculations which were noted directly on the certificate. Hanson Builders failed to acknowledge their wrongdoing which has cost us thousands of dollars over the years in electricity bills. Hanson is still claiming the onus is on us, the homeowners, for reporting an inaccuracy on documents which were submitted, certified and approved by the City of Blaine. We took care of our HVAC and had no reason to suspect that Hanson Builders would lie to us about the sizing of our AC unit. Sadly, we are now left to wonder what other inaccuracies were slid under the radar by unsuspecting homeowners who placed their trust and reliance on a home builder who had a seemingly untarnished reputation. Hanson Builders has lost our trust and will be reported. read more

My life was like a whirlwind. I was married in October, found out we were moving from Washington state to Minnesota about a week later, went on a house hunting trip compliments of his new company Thanksgiving weekend, then we moved in December. The relocation package assigned us a Realtor named Nita who I will someday write a review on. ( She was awesome ) and we were given four days to quote find a house. Knowing absolutely nothing about the state of Minnesota other then the most freezing unimaginable winters (we flew in the day after Thanksgiving in 2010 which they claim was the worst winter ever ). Anyway, I could write a book about the painful cold here, but you people from Minnesota already know about them while others simply could not possibly understand. My husband and I had absolutely no clue what city whatsoever to want to reside in, so we saw no less then 100 houses within 4 days basically all over the place. ( No joke ) We had a major list with stars and notes on each house we looked at and we had a list with the top 5 homes that we personally liked the most. Well, the model home in Plymouth by Hanson builders was both of our number 1 choice having different second and third choices from each other.. Hanson homes have the most amazing functional and spacious floor plans. We worked with one of the builders reps named Lisa who was so helpful and was always quick with an answer to the many questions that we had. Our Realtor wrote up an offer and it was accepted. We actually had the same plan built on a lot that overlooked a really cool large pond with fountains, so we had the opportunity to pick all of the paint colors, granite, carpet or any additional upgrades we were interested in. Their person who was in charge of that was Nancy and she had tremendous helpful ideas on coordinating the right granite with tile, color choices etc.. They definitely have professional people who seem to truly care about their jobs that work for them. We did see many Hanson floor plans and they are actually pretty similar in many ways from the other. My conclusion for that is this. They have really perfected their floor plans so why change a good thing too much. If your thinking about buying a home, I would highly recommend you setting up an appointment to walk through them and see them for yourselves. They pay attention to detail and although there were a few little problems in the end, they took care of it right away to our satisfaction. The only reason why I did not give Hanson builders five stars was during the final walk thru, it was really not as clean as we would have expected. We did mention this and we were told that they just routinely do a spot clean. So here we move into this beautiful home and we had to do a deep clean prior to the actual move. That part was a little disappointing. But the end result, we are absolutely thrilled with each and every Hanson floor plan and we felt like all of the pieces fit together with all of the help from those who worked with us. read more

Best Local Builder In MN! Hands down cant beat 30+ years of experience and knowledge of the whole building process start to finish!

Just had an awful experience with Lesa Rand - the real estate agent for the Maple Creek Village development with HANSON Builders. The Walton home design was great but we were looking for additional custom options. Lesa stereotyped us by the way we looked and talked down to us the entire time. We will never buy a house from Lesa Rand. Her lack of professionalism is appalling. Sure wish we could deal with Brandon who greeted us at the site today and answered all of our questions without judgment. We would've loved to have a real conversation with someone about our options with HANSON but she has left a terrible taste in our mouths. So nice to be judged by someone who has no idea what your background is or what you are looking for in the price of a home. read more