The Kurk Team - Melanie, Chris, Oscar....office staff, all were great to work with, responsive, fair and super professional. Especially liked our Project Manager/ Superintendent Oscar who did a great job for us (and his asst. Brody). read more

We recently moved into our new home built by Kurk Homes in the Hill Country. After some delays in the beginning due to personelle issues, Misael Soto took over as project manager. Although the entire process took much longer than was expected, with a few bumps along the way, Misa moved the process along more smoothly. We are very happy with the quality of work and the workmanship and the final result of our house. We really appreciate the help that we received from Jeffrey Merriman in selecting the colors and styles of the interior materials. His expertise in the selections made the process much less overwhelming. The entire team worked together well to inform us of the steps and the progress along the way. We love our new home! Thank you Kurk Homes! read more

It took over two weeks to get a response, when the other two Custom Home Builders took less than a week. I emailed and within a minute I was told they came up with $425 a square foot. The gallery of homes they build are in the range of 200-250 a square foot. Sounds like they want to sell fewer homes a year and make an extremely large profit margin. Look around, at $425 there are much better builders available. read more

After meeting with Paul Deutsch and Wendy Novack at the New Braunfels office, we selected Kurk Homes as our builder. While the process of constructing a custom home requires patience and perseverance, we are extremely satisfied with the results. The project progressed smoothly following Misael Soto's involvement. Throughout the build, the team collaborated with us and accommodated changes as needed. We are highly satisfied with the quality of workmanship and level of service provided throughout the process. We also appreciate Misa's continued availability to address our inquiries both during the build and afterwards as questions have arisen. Thank you Kurk Homes for building our forever home. read more

We had a great experience with Kurk Homes. Oscar and his crew were wonderful throughout the process! Always quick to answer questions (even if they were dumb questions!) and very detailed as he built our beautiful home! We have been in the home a month and Oscar has answered more questions and made himself available anytime we needed anything. Which has not been often! We are very satisfied with the quality and service we received throughout the process. read more

A big thank you to Bryan and Richard who are the gems on the Kurk team. They listen and really take care of their customers. Leslie read more

Kurk Homes was an amazing experience, my wife and I built our first/dream home. We were able to customize it and design the way we wanted, from a custom dog shower to an amazing library! Oscar, Brian and Richard were the best contractors, they were very open, commutative and beyond helpful. Even after we got our keys they were here doing finishing touches. We could not have asked for anything better and would use them again and again! read more

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We recently had a custom home built for us by Kurk Homes. While our house building took far longer than expected & there were some glitches along the way, Zach Patterson was a great help throughout the process. He updated us each week on what was being done, he worked with the contractors to keep them on schedule and he went out of his way to do extra things for us so that the process would be as smooth as possible! Having Zach Patterson involved in our building process made all the difference in the world!! Also never having gone through the process of selecting floors, countertops, cabinets, room colors etc, the procedure would have been totally overwhelming without the help of Kim Provost. Kim was very accommodating every step of the way. Not only was Kim extremely helpful at the initial meeting but she was available to us many many more times either in person, via text or email. At each meeting, Kim was appreciative of our taste, knowledgeable of design & colors and used her extensive experience to guide us through the entire selection process. Having Kim Provost involved in our building process made all the difference in the world!! Thank you Zach & Kim for all your help and expertise! read more

After months of researching those who build in the Texas hill country, we decided on Kurk Homes with the help of Paul in the New Braunfels office. One thing we observed from the start was the involvement and professionalism of co-owner, Chris McGinley. Along with other prospective clients, we were able meet him at one of his "Hard Hat Home Tours" where we saw the quality being built into that home. After signing a contract, Lisa, the pre-construction coordinator, provided a written list of initial steps which was quite helpful. Once activity started at the site, the Construction Manager, Larry, emailed an update every weekend detailing that week's progress. Upon Larry's retirement, Lorenzo took the role of Construction Manager, and continued the updates. Someone was always available to answer questions and provide help in a timely manner. We saw Lorenzo overcome many challenges toward the end of the project, always with a smile (behind his mask!), a helpful solution, and willing support from Cole. It is obvious that the McGinley family has taken care to hire staff with an extremely positive attitude and high degree of competence. We received the keys to our home two days ago, and it has turned out to be all that we hoped for. read more

Brian Anderson at Kurk Homes did such a great job preparing our new home and he was quick and efficient. Also, Brian went above and beyond the call of duty and helped us move furniture and boxes! We would definitely recommend to anyone looking to buy a home to visit Kurk Homes. Also Oscar, Peter and Melanie made the extra effort to build a quality home and buying experience. I highly recommend Kurk Homes and their staff. Sincerely, Bill Potter read more

In the search for a new custom home? Look no further, because I'm sure you will be amazed by this builder. I was greeted by Morgan upon my first visit and she did a great job of answering all my questions considering it was her 2nd day, but I came back the following week with my husband and he fell in love with the decor, quality, style and floor plans that they offered just like I did. They can make any changes to a floor plan or you can bring your own and they can build it. I recommend checking them out and seeing if you have the conclusion as we did. We found our builder, KURK HOMES! read more

We loved having Kurk Homes as our builder. They built our custom home exactly as we wanted it with even a couple of bonus surprises along the way!! We were torn about our house placement as we were pretty sure we would have to cut down a large oak to fit the house in between the rest of the trees. Somehow they managed to get the house placement just right so that we are surrounded by all the beautiful oak trees without sacrificing them! We received weekly updates during the entire build process so we knew exactly what had taken place that week and what was scheduled next. We dealt with several people during the process and every single one was beyond professional and friendly! We have been in our house for only about a week but feel that the quality and workmanship that went into our home is top notch! From start to finish every need, request, and question was met to perfection! We would definitely recommend them if you are looking for someone to build your dream home. read more

I'm a retired Chief Warrant Officer with the US Navy. I say this because, if this is how Kurk Homes treats retired Navy, imagine what they'd do to all others! Latest update: Kurk Homes now states t(26 Sep 16) hat we're in"breach of contract" as of 6 Nov 15 because we moved into the home on that date. The construction manager advised us on 6 Nov 15 that it was okay to move in and start living in the home as there were only a few items on a list to fix/repair. Kurk Homes also stated that we were being charged "interest" on money for the final draw. Note, bank withheld final draw due to completion issues until 6 Feb 16. It took a Better Business Bureau Complaint to get Kurk Homes to start the needed fixes and repairs (started in late Dec 15, but not yet completed as of 26 Sep 16). As I've stated numerous times on Yelp - DO NOT USE KURK HOMES period. read more

I could not speak more highly of this company. Kurk Homes offered me such a wonderful building experience. From the first day we started designing the home, we were so impressed with the level of customer service we received. Steven (the Designer) was so attentive and helpful with every detail. From there, the Construction Manager (Lorenzo) did a great job at overseeing the build and keeping us included in decisions. The weekly updates we received from him were always very informative! Last but not least, the owners of Kurk Homes, Chris and Melanie Mcgingley.. wow. They made sure that we were always having a good experience and that their team was meeting our expectations all along the way. We would strongly recommend this company to anyone wishing to build their dream home. Thank you for everything! read more

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Bryan has been extremely helpful during the closing and post closing period while we settled in to our new home. He is a pleasure to work with and a professional. Thank you to entire Kurk Home team for building a beautiful home for my family! read more

My husband and I chose Kurk Homes out of the many builders that we interviewed because of their build quality and their dedication to customer service. We are in the midst of building our forever home and we couldn't be more excited to see our finished product. Melanie and Chris have worked with us though various stages of the build, they are the heart and sole of Kurk Homes. Paul was forthcoming in the initial sales process and assisted us through the design and finalization of the house plans. A shout out to Steven who was so very patient while working with us through the actual design of the house and the many, many changes that it went through to arrive at the final product. Even though the build got off to a rough start due to the complexity of our lot, Lorenzo has been an amazing asset to our build. He is the boots on the ground of the project and makes sure that everyone and everything is happening when it should happen and coordinating all the chaos that happens around the build. He always has a smile and is ready to help any time. My husband and I couldn't be more impressed with the build quality of our home. Chris and his team have ensured that our home will stand the test of time by employing the highest level of construction practices and employees. We highly recommend this company and every single person on their team that ensures you have the best experience when building your next home. We can't wait to share our completed forever home once it is completed. read more

We have been through the building process four times and all with different builders. The thing I learned is: building a house is stressful and normally not a smooth process. It is just part of the business. You have so many variables to deal with; contractors, suppliers, construction managers, designers, architects, banks, government, weather etc. Things are bound to go wrong. The one thing that really helps is an exceptional construction manager. If you can get one, it will make a world of difference. Unfortunately for us, we started our Kurk home with a construction manager that wasn't so great. That all changed when he left and we were able to finish our house with Eli. Eli is an exceptional construction manager. He went above and beyond to make things right and turn things around. He kept us informed at all times and made sure things were getting done. He did everything he could to make us happy and it worked. In the end, we have a beautiful home that we love. Thanks again to Eli for all his hard work to make sure we had a good experience. I also want to thank Chris, the president of Kurk Homes. He came through on several occasions to help us out. We do really appreciate his extra efforts. read more

We've been in our home 6 months now and are still as excited and pleased as we were the day we took ownership. Lots of homes being built in our area by lots of different builders and seeing an obvious difference in the quality of the stuff you don't see once the home is built. You get what you pay for folks. read more

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We just moved into our forever home built by Kurk Homes. We have had nothing but positive experiences from day one. From Paul in sales to Steven, Lisa, Shelby, Tammy and Lorenzo the personal attention to detail has been great. Lorenzo was our construction manager and we couldn't have asked for a better one. He was by our side every step of the way keeping us on budget and on schedule. We looked forward to his Sunday emails updating us on what took place the previous week and usually sent pictures. He became a trusted friend. The owners Chris and Melanie are very hands on making sure you are happy and everything is going well. I'm glad we chose Kurk Homes and wouldn't hesitate to use them again. read more

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We moved from The Woodlands to New Braunfels and selected Kurk Homes to build our custom home based on our visits to their model home in Huntsville and our interactions with Melanie and staff at their home office in Magnolia. Paul, the Hill Country sales manager gave us solid advice in our selections and upgrades and was clear and concise in explaining what to expect during the build process, how long the build should take and how any changes we wanted to make during the building process would be handled. Stephen then took the pictures, sketches, crude drawings, etc. that we provided him with and, through back-and-forth communication, was able to create construction drawings that met all of our requirements.  Not a small task in light of the current situation where face to face communication can be limited! The construction manager for our build was Lorenzo and we feel truly blessed that he was in charge of building our home.  Lorenzo is a terrific communicator, is wise beyond his years in construction details and is well respected among all of the sub-contractors on our project.  He provided us a weekly update detailing the work that had taken place and the work that was scheduled which was very beneficial in keeping us appraised of where we were in regards to our build schedule.  Outstanding job! Overall, we are very pleased that we selected Kurk Homes to build our dream home and would highly recommend them to anyone looking to build a custom home. ReplyForward read more

My family is blessed to own a ranch in Llano, Texas, near Enchanted Rock. The property has been in the Moss family name since the battle of San Jacinto. When we go to work cattle on the property, we've stayed in town at my grandfather's house. It has long been a dream of mine to build a house on the ranch that would allow for the family to spend more time together while we are on our ranch trips. We knew we wanted the house to be quality, maintenance free, comfortable, and designed to our needs. Using the income from the cattle as our primary source of payment, we decided to build the house in phases over 4 or 5 years. Chris McGinley understood my desire to do this and has been extremely accommodating. Steven Byrne has been awesome to work with on the design front too. We went from a picture that I sketched to a design that the whole family has agreed will suit us just right. Check out my 5 year old nephew's idea of a rope ladder from the second story patio! Larry Rice was there for the foundation pour, and took extra precautions to protect our pipes etc. since the foundation may sit for a year or two before we get to continue with the project. Chris mentioned at the beginning of this project, that once that foundation is poured, it's going to be hard to wait for the next phases, and he's correct. We've already set up a foldable table on the "back porch" for a pizza dinner, as the family envisioned one day gathering under the fan made from the old windmill, looking out on the cattle tank and the mountains in the background. I'm so glad to partner with Kurk Homes in making this dream into a reality. More to come! read more

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We completed a custom home with Kurk Homes 2015. We are very satisfied with our home, and feel that it has many unique features (beautiful Austin limestone stonework, a hand built craftsman stairway, custom transom windows) that we would not have gotten with many custom builders in this price range. We live near Houston's inner loop. We shopped around to several builders in the area, and we initially chose Kurk homes because of value, construction quality, and warranty, as well as the fact that it is a family business that has been around for 3 generations. Our first contact with the company was with Chris McGinley (the president of the company). He met with us a couple of times before we signed the design contract, explaining how the process worked and answering our many questions. The price per square foot is very reasonable compared to many builders in our area. We did spend a lot of time understanding what was included in the base price and planning ahead for the upgrades we wanted (we included about +25% to base cost for upgrades), so we were not surprised by any costs. In fact, after changing a couple of things during the build, we actually came in a bit under the budget. J. was our designer. He was very patient with the design process, and allowed us multiple iterations, which we felt were important to getting the house we wanted. Kemp was our primary construction supervisor. We were very pleased with his building expertise, the interaction with him, and his desire to build us the house we wanted. We had full access to the house during the build process, and communicated with Kemp several times a week to daily during the construction. After living in the house for a year and a half, we have only had a couple of minor issues. For those issues, Shelby and Eli, from the warranty department, are very responsive, and have handled our requests very quickly. Kurk Homes does work very hard to make the process of building a custom home a good one. They truly do want their customers to be happy, and they will stand by their warranty. I have had several friends build a custom home with different builders. They describe the process as a nightmare. I describe the process with Kurk Homes as very pleasant. Yes - there were some ups and downs (as there will always be with custom home building), but Kurk Homes will work with you to make sure you get the house you want. Building a custom home is a big undertaking. I highly recommend doing research ahead on what you want your house to look like. Collect pictures of what you want, price it out early with Kurk, and they will build your vision into reality. I highly recommend Kurk Homes. read more

We have celebrated year two in our home and I cannot say enough about the construction and attention to detail! This home is a beast...solid, well appointed, energy efficient, company friendly and two years later I still can't find anything wrong. A custom home is a huge family investment...Kurk Homes protected my savings and respected our best interests! read more

Melanie and her team are the best. Solid design, great customer service and just a nice team. Highly recommended.

We LOVE LOVE LOVE our home built in Magnolia, Texas by Kurk Homes. DID I MENTION WE LOVE IT? From day one, Kurk Homes was absolutely wonderful to work with and the whole building process was fun, honest, exciting and always handled on the utmost professional level. Kurk Homes is extremely affordable yet they treated us as if we were their only customer and as if we were building a million dollar home. They cared about us and made us feel as if we were important to them. They were building SEVERAL other homes at the same time, yet that didn't impact us negatively at all. Kurk Homes, especially Chris and Chuck, tended to our EVERY need. All questions, concerns, phone calls and emails (there were A LOT) were quickly addressed without any delays or miscommunications. The daily communication was outstanding. We were amazed at the attentiveness we received. And my memories of building are all happy. Building process was fun, positive and always satisfying. -- not stressful like people say building custom is. Our home is beautiful.....from the bricks to the stone to the Kent Moore cabinetry and millwork. The Kurk Homes house plan we modified just to fit our family was a collaborative effort with us and their designer. The designer, J, (bless his patient heart) meticulously made every little change to the plans that we wanted and then changed some back. And forth. And back. And yet again. It was hard to work with us I imagine but he kept on making changes till we were positive of the plan. And to us, it's perfect! Now, about the people. You gotta like the people you build with b/c you are like family for about a year talking several times a day & seeing each other a lot. We didn't realize this but lucked out because the people were so great. --Chris McGinley is an honest, professional, hard working, problem solver -- and he sticks to his word and takes great care to uphold the pride of his family's business. --Chuck McKenon was our Project Manager and we LOVED that guy. He did everything for us. All hours of the day, 7 days a week! --Melanie McGinley was always available to us in the office and made things happen for us as well. She runs operations & is the communication hub. Now about selections and upgrades - also a good experience. I have to mention Lennoire in regards to design & interior selections. Lennoire was our rep at Weisenbaker Design Center. She was a very smart lady with such good taste and ideas! She also treated us special. She met us on a Saturday (they're closed). A few Saturdays actually. I appreciated that so as not to miss work. Her suggestions came together in the house beautifully. ---And Kurk Homes included A LOT of things that other builders would consider an upgrade. Their level of selection w/ out even upgrading was always a step above "builder bland basic blah" selections. That made us very happy. Lennoire would show us what most builders give their clients and Kurk Homes' standards are considered upgrades to other builders - which means hidden costs! We upgraded granite 1 level and added some tile where carpet was included. That was about it. Crown molding, 3 foot wide (3x8) doors, plumbing control center, framed mirrors and too much to mention.....all that was included. No surprises! Of course we went over our lighting allowance but everyone does that!! We also bought our own appliances - although they offer top notch Whirlpool - we wanted GE. No problem there. They just wouldn't warranty it. Understood. Their guys still installed it all. My favorite thing is the pot filler. No charge. Just bought the fixture. Our shower is 8' x 4' w/ two shower heads, one being rain shower. Love! At Kurk Homes, the staff communicates and works together well. It is rare you can say that about a company. Other home owners allowed us to look through their homes at examples and ideas. All were pleased with Kurk. That was neat. One important note is our construction site was always clean. Our neighborhood is a stickler for hounding sites to stay clean but they didn't hound us b/c we were clean! Kurk always uses the same crews. They're all good! Lastly, I must say that Kurk Homes invited us 2 years in a row to their Christmas party, yet again making us feel like part of their extended family! We spent time with the McGinley family, including Chris' Dad and Grandfather, who were just wonderful people as well. They respect you and you respect them. Simple. Good people. Good family. Good business. Darn good house!! I wish I needed another home because I would use them in a heartbeat......but I have a feeling we will live here forever. A++++ for Kurk Homes. Very Happy Customer right here! Best decision we have ever made. We 100% chose the right home builder. It was the best experience thus far that we have had in our journey of making a family and a home. We love our forever home. DID I MENTION WE LOVE OUR HOME read more

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Kurk Homes is a family owned company - you're able to meet with the owners of the company, not a salesperson. The design center has plenty of selections to choose from, and we created our own cabinet design with Kent Moore - it turned out beautiful. Kurk isn't the cheapest company, but you get what you pay for. My home is extremely energy efficient, we moved in November 2016 and we've had a great experience - starting with designing the home from the ground up with J - who was extremely patient despite the millions of changes! Lisa helped hold our hands through the preconstruction process - and city of Houston was a doozie. It took over a year to build, you can't be impatient when it comes to CoH. Ben and Eli met with all of the inspectors to get the house complete and Kim was awesome to work with for design. Kurk Homes takes pride in their work, and my wife and I love our new home! read more

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We have been in our Kurk Home for a year now, couldn't be happier! We haven't found anything we would change in our house! We only had a couple of small things at the one year mark and Ben jumped right on them, taken care of very quickly. read more

Kurk Homes built our home in 2012. They walked us through every step and we learned so much through the process. 4 years later we are still happy with our home and the service they provided during and after the build. I have called them on several occasions looking for advise for maintenance or other non-warranty issues and they have always been polite and helpful. Last week Eli, from warranty offered to come by and help me out with an issue i was having (couldn't find the GFI reset for one circuit). He took the time to drive out and quickly found it for me! Kurk Homes helped us design our dream home from the ground up, and we could not be happier with the results. Their quality, honesty and service speak for themselves and I highly recommend them. read more

Completely unrealistic on pricing that they tell you about during the pre-sale, you only learn about the true price after you give them the $2,500. Once they come back with the price that is $40 per square foot more than the original quote, for a house with no special features, they then tell you that the $2,500 has all been used up by the "designer's" time, despite it being a few simple drawings with no real detail, and it would not have taken many alterations had they actually listened to what we wanted. Save yourself the aggravation and just flush 25 hundred dollar bills down the toilet. Better yet, give that money to a good charity, at least you will have something to show for it. read more

Kurk Homes did a wonderful job building our dream home. From the beginning to the end they were very friendly, helpful, and professional. Larry was great over seeing the building process and Lorenzo has been fantastic with small repairs or adjustments after the move in. The whole staff made it an enjoyable process. read more

Had serious problems just in design. A six month-long process ending in parting ways. They may be fine for spec homes, loved their design center, but they're trying to also do custom homes in Hill Country, which applies to me. Their design process entailed two staff departures, making me start over with new reps, three reps in total over 6 months. The communication with these reps was very poor, very little engagement in hearing the client's needs and navigating "design implications and options." I entered the process prepared with fully detailed concept plans - even renderings - using another software, really going into detail of each room where furniture would be, home theater viewing positions, dining dimensions, you name it, hours and hours of prep work handed them on day #1. Yet it took many iterations and long weeks working with their CAD designer to just get back to where my plans were using my software. While I didn't say it to antagonize, I would repeat myself with 2nd and 3rd requests for changes to get plans on point, and long periods of time would pass as their CAD designer would catch up. There was no need or excuse for that. He said something like, "well, I've never had to deal with someone not familiar with the conversion to CAD". Well, as I told him, "translating specific dimensions from one software to CAD doesn't result in changing dimensions of rooms materially, or changing layouts so we'd have to watch TV with our heads turned sideways, all design considerations we put into the material handed to you months ago, all you had to do was recreate them on CAD." Further, they claim to be "design build" but offered very little (virtually none) consultative guidance on design. One rep before he quit started at $750k range, got it down to $650k, then he quit Kurk Homes and the next rep started out with the Taj Mahal perspective, not connecting or focusing on our project adequately, and after eliminating 800 sf from the last version at our request, the next estimate came out ... $200k More (not Less with materially less s.f.) It was a real nightmare. I would ask, "what is driving the numbers," and get nowhere consultative. I spoke with the owner, Chris, in frustration, and he made a comment that "all our guys will do is what you ask." The implication and execution being, that if you ask them to build a 100' tall ceiling per se, they won't tell you you're blowing the budget, they'll just do it. Well, this is a design build project, no architect to be owner's consultative expert or advocate, so it's just the owner and builder, and if the builder can't speak to drivers of cost and design... you're sunk. That was Kurk Homes. 6 months of repeat requests, requests for guidance, checking the next version of plans to see which items they didn't change again as requested, and fumbling through rare estimates when they finally offered them, with no accounting as to what was driving costs, and what could be done to wrangle the costs back in line (or done proactively in advance of reflecting them in plans). Also had a lending broker and appraiser look at the plans in progress, and they couldn't make sense or justify the numbers Kurk's reps were quoting, sky high. There's much much more... but that's the heart of it. They may be great at building spec homes in Houston, but if you're looking for custom homes "design-build" in Hill Country, it's more "you speak, we'll add it on CAD even if it makes no economic or value sense or better ways to get it done, and then give you crazy bids". I had a very poor and ultimately unsuccessful experience ending at a failed design phase, with 6 months lost, and out my design deposit. read more

Kurk homes built our home with pride. We have been in the home for over a year and have been very happy. Today being out of our warranty period we had a problem. I contacted Chris McGinley by email and within a short period had a response with a resolution. Two hours later I left my home with the problem resolved. In business integrity can not be taught or bought you either have it or you don't. I am very hands on when I have anything built and I try to do business with like minded people. Thank you Kurk homes for treating people the way you would like to be treated, standing up for what's right and doing business with integrity! I am proud to tell people who built my family home. Chris Peters read more

Great customer service by Eli! I had requested some warranty repairs and was contacted by Eli very quickly to set up the vendors to do the repairs. He contacted me after each repair was completed to confirm the repair was done to our satisfaction. read more

We love our custom Kurk home in the Boerne hill country! Working with Larry Rice and his assistant Lorenzo Pirritano was a really nice experience. Both are extremely professional. Both went out of their way accommodating us in all the building phases. Even when our home was completed Lorenzo went above and beyond to help us resolve a repair issue with our GE gas range. (.....take my advice and DO NOT purchase GE appliances, horrible service) Thank you Kurk Homes! read more

Kurk Homes really takes pride in their product. I was lucky enough to buy a spec home of theirs in the Heights (Houston). From the moment we walked into the house we absolutely loved it. It had a lot of upgrades you don't normally find in a spec home. The inspection report came out really clean and they fixed any issues we had either from the inspection or the blue tape walk thru. After we moved in, we had a couple of minor issues. We worked directly with Eli, their warranty manager, who was very polite, professional, and went above and beyond to keep us happy. read more

Going with them was the worst decision I made in my life. I was lied to the core before signing the agreement. I was always pushed to buy costly stuff and to pay more money for that. If I declined they threatened me of not giving any warranty. They pressurize you mentally to the core. There where many times when i thought i should dispose my plan to build a house and buy an already built one. Not recommended. they waste your time and money and disturb you mentally. Stay away1 read more

My husband and I did a LOT of research to build our dream home on a piece of land we already owned. I am so glad we settled on Kurk Homes. Their in house architect helped us piece together a design for our house (it took about 6 to 8 months to perfect). Their project managers are easy to work with and are prompt to respond with any piece of communication. We were realistic about the time line it would take to build. Kurk Homes was always up front about costs and kept our expectations in check. We moved in in December of 2016 and the quality of the house was impeccable. I cannot say enough good things about Kurk Homes and I definitely recommend giving them a call! read more

We are very pleased with our beautiful home built by Kurk Homes. We have been in our home a little over 2 years now and it is very well built. We have been amazed that our electric bill has been lower in this much larger house than in our previous home! Chris and Melanie have always immediately responded to any issues we have faced. Most recently we have been provided excellent customer service by Eli from the warranty team in helping us to resolve an ongoing issue with the HVAC contractor. He went above and beyond to make sure that the issue was resolved. As mentioned in another review, our only complaint would be having to change constructon managers during our build, leading to a couple of bumps in the road related to that transition, which is why I gave 4 instead of 5 stars. read more

We stand by everything we said in our initial review (and as we said, there was much more that we couldn't fit in the space). As for waiting to publish our review, we had some serious health issues that arose soon after we moved in, and which took precedence; but we did our best to make the McGinleys aware of our concerns during our build - to no avail (Kurk was not very responsive during our build; we wouldn't expect them to act any differently as a result of our review). And we have already acknowledged that we gave them a part number for the tub, but as we said previously, we REPEATEDLY asked Kurk to verify that it would "work" in the space - even to the point of providing them with a specific contact name & phone number - yet they failed to do so; that is precisely the type of thing we expected a custom builder to take care of! Chris is correct that the tub was not from one of their preferred vendors, but ours was supposed to be a custom home - and they indicated that using a different vendor would not present a problem. And when we signed off on the plan, we were approving the basic floor plan, unaware that the plan, as drawn, would not accommodate the tub we had chosen (we told Kurk from the beginning that we were giving them a suggested model number, and asked them to check it out; had anyone from Kurk done so, the entire problem could have been avoided). The "custom carpentry" is nothing more than a hack off the edge of the cabinets, with caulking applied along the edge of the seam. We never wanted such a "solution", but we weren't aware of the mess they were making until the cabinetry was already ruined. No one from Kurk, it seems, took the time to oversee or coordinate our build, which is why we had so many issues. As for the utility line locations, they were not installed as per plan (again, no project oversight), which is why the location of the generator needed to be altered. The warranty manager said he knew we had problems with our build, & began to blame our construction managers (starting to tell us a story about the first construction manager and drunkenness, which we didn't want to hear), as though that absolved the McGinleys of all responsibility. However, if the first construction manager was fired for cause (as intimated), the McGinleys should have made every effort to make things right - instead of becoming even more hostile. BTW, when we had an issue early in the build, we were told by Chris that the first construction manager "is one of my best guys"; so either he was not being truthful, or the construction manager was able to completely fool him (or none of his "guys" are any good anyway). We certainly didn't want (and didn't expect) a contentious relationship (we much prefer congeniality, of course), but the McGinleys dictated the adversarial tone; once we signed the contract, they treated our build very carelessly, neglecting to provide the oversight and attention needed for a custom build. Perhaps they can build a satisfactory "spec" home, but definitely avoid them if you want a truly custom home. FYI, we are not alone in our feelings about Kurk Homes, as evidenced by the response to people posting on "nextdoor.com" asking for builder recommendations. Our only interest in posting this review is to warn others; we don't plan to respond further to Chris McGinley's excuses. read more

we must have had a different builder than what everyone else is posting about. The building process was ok, if you are into double checking their work and want to have min help. I would suggest using them to build/frame the house, but all of the other items (ac, septic, granite, cabinets, flooring, etc.) do yourself with your own contractors. Their subs suck. cheap is the motto and items they use. if you are in south Houston good luck. all subs come from north Houston and getting them to show-up or finish a job is very slim. The finalizing piece has been a nightmare. We closed back in Feb 2019. it is Jun 2019 as i write this and we are STILL waiting on final grade, trash pickup, cabinet doors, and several other issues to be fixed/ finished by them. I will say if you use them, get everything done before you pay the final check or you will never get it done. we get week after week saying they will be here to finish and no one ever shows. i have emailed them several time stating the same issues and all i get back is an email from Chris within a few min saying they will get it taken care of. i don't think they read the emails and actually process the information. very disappointed with them when it comes to completing a job. read more