Bought a house with them in 2020. We really wanted LAND with a house but the agent steered us into a builder neighborhood with an HOA. We had to give up all our chickens, broke my heart. We got a nice house, have no qualms about that. But we hate the HOA and it's management and I've even served on it. The home had floors improperly installed on it and the floors are cracked but the builder refused to do anything about it saying it was outside their timeframe. It was improperly installed! There is no timeframe for that. The builder dragged it out until the statuate of limitations was up. I'll have to sue to get that rectified.
Not going to use Redfin again because the Realtor was told what We wanted and gave me something else and we had a tight timeframe and we had to live with it. Have one good neighbor and one horrid neighbor. We could afford land and we think the builder just gave the Realtor too many perks and kickbacks for her to really dig in and find the land and home we wanted. I did however 2 weeks after we moved in, found the land and house I wished she had shown me in my price range that was on the market for months, but I am sure that builder cash and incentives were just too enticing instead of getting our family what we asked for. We are not as secure as i wanted to be with land and the ability to grown our own food. The HOA went nuts when we put up shadecloth to protect our vegetables from the scorching Texas Sun that bakes everything into shriveled submission. All the neighbors want to lollygag into our yard. Another reason we wanted to be out in the country. We put up a scaffolding around the garden that they've no problem with but once you put up black shade cloth they want to tell you what color and how high when other people have trampolines that look much the same as the shadecloth and are visible from roads far away. People could mind their own business and I have a right to grow vegetables. We have a way around this involving the American flag as you can have that on your property and it will be suspended over the garden, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Had we been put into land with a house I would not be complaining about the HOA. So make sure your Needs and Wants come before your Agent's desire to collect builder incentives and shove you into a pretty house that fills your needs for a roof over your head, but not your need to be left alone by your neighbors and community.
Recently went looking for another home in the Dallas Area and there is a redesign feature on their website. I'm sure it is AI driven. It doesn't understand the function of furniture, doors, floor mats & plumbing in a bathroom, but it does understand the types of items and different styles of homes like, Modern, Rustic, Industrial, Coastal, Beach etc. Now, mind you all these photos are for the same space. The AI is wildly imaginative about how big the space actually is and I'm thinking that the "tool" isn't really tweaked enough to be ready for primetime as the results are pretty hilarious and entertaining. read more