We are two months out from the purchase of our new home. We gave Scott May AKA Christopher Scott May our punch list which he hasn't reached back out to us to fix anything. We have confirmation that he received our punch list. I will update this post if he does reach out. read more

Warning: Beware of S&S Builders of MS, Inc, and Christopher Scott May Christopher Scott May (S & S Builders of MS, Inc. of Florence, MS) built, and sold, a new house to my son in January of 2017. The lies and deception Scott May perpetrated in order to sell this house to my son is shameful. My son, an Eagle Scout, joined the United States Air Force 15 years ago. While working fulltime to support his family, he studied through endless nights to earn both his bachelors and master's degrees, and my amazing son continues to serve his country. When I visited him, in July of this year (2017), I planned to complete a few projects around his house. We decided to start with a border around the flowerbeds. In order to see what we were dealing with, I first thing had to remove about a foot deep of pine needles that Scott May had placed abnormally high on top of an already exceedingly high pile of dirt, which was all pushed too high against the exterior brick wall. In the flowerbed, next to the front door, we discovered that Scott May had buried a debris pile under mortar and broken bricks. Along with the broken bricks, and mortar, we dug out nails, cans, bottles, roofing shingles, and other assorted buried trash. During this all day project, to remove the hidden debris pile, we discovered the weep holes (openings at the base of the bricks to allow the walls to breath, and moisture to escape the walls) were suspiciously sealed / caulked with what appeared to be silicone. Also buried beneath pine needles and dirt, we discovered an obscure shoddily fashioned seventeen-foot long, one foot wide, lump of concrete, positioned against the exterior brick wall, which was several bricks above the foundation's brick ledge. This hideous looking concrete thingamajig had some sort of ugly tar and tarpaper sloshed between it and the bricks. My suspicions were confirmed when Scott May admitted there had been "water damage" to the house prior to my son purchasing it, and the "thingamajig" was his absurd low-cost attempt to fix a problem. Per the regulatory inspector, that sort of patchwork would not pass local building code. On the Property Condition Disclosure Statement, which was an official form that Scott May was required to provide to my son prior to a purchase offer being made, in response to the question, "FOR ANY REASON, has any portion of the residence ever suffered water damage?", Scott May checked the "No" box, which he know was a lie. Learning of the prior, and concealed, water damage, that Scott said required replacing the carpet, led to our most serious concern, that there might have been mold present in the walls, since Scott May had sealed up the weep holes after the water damage. Lacking integrity, and being the proven liar that he is, initially Scott promised to have the house inspected for the presence of mold. However, after unreasonable delays, and us having to press him to perform, he made up one absurd excuse after another, until he eventually refused to do anything. We further discovered the main water line into the house ran through the flowerbed, buried only three and a half inches underground. With the freeze line for this area being an average of eight inches, this wasn't adequately buried to the officially recommended depth of sixteen inches. Upon walking the perimeter of the house, we found many of the weep holes were partly covered with the dirt that Scott had pushed up against the house during construction. With the weep holes at so many different levels around the house, it wasn't apparent that Scott May understood their purpose. When we told Scot about cracks found in the foundation, he replied with a perceptibly "canned" speech. Telling us if we believe there are foundational cracks we would have to hire an engineer, at our expense, to evaluate the cracks, and then have the engineer measure again after a year. Then if we could prove a problem we would have to sue his insurance company, whose lawyers he said would drag out litigation for years. In other words, tough luck, you are stuck with it. We wrote numerous emails to Scott May, trying to resolve so many issues, all of which he said he was afraid to respond to because he might write something that would get him in trouble. Scott May apparently has done so many awful things, and has so much to hide, that he's afraid to honestly answer even the most simple and direct questions. We have photos, voice recordings, emails, and witness statements to verify these claims. After seeing the poor quality of what Scott May builds, his lack of response to issues he caused, and his lack of integrity, I wouldn't let him build a dog house for me. Scott May masquerades as a former "youth pastor, something he's quick to tell everyone about, which is an obvious attempt to mask his demonic lack of honesty and integrity. The crooked needle of this man's moral compass seems to be steadily pointing in a "southerly" direction. read more

DO NOT BUY A HOME FROM S&S BUILDERS! I live in San Diego and transferring with the Navy to Brandon MS. My wife and I found a nice new construction home in the community of Belle Oak in Brandon, MS. We loved the home, put a contract on the home and all was good. When it came time for the home inspection the builder would not allow the inspector I chose to enter the home for the inspection. I was going to choose another inspector only to find out he would not allow that one in either. He told us to pick someone else. Well isn't that the point of a 3rd party home inspection, choose who you want to give you a no BS inspection? This raised up red flags for us and we told him per the contract we had the right to choose our inspector. He said fine let them inspect but he will not fix anything they find that is wrong. What is he afraid of, if he built the home correctly then he should not have anything to hide. We walked away from that contract and moved on, since then I found numerous bad reviews online about this builder not honoring his warranty. People over and over are complaining about things wrong with their new home, cannot get the builder to fix anything and poor craftsmanship. I am glad I did not make the $250,000 mistake, buyer beware is all I can tell you. read more