Very well built homes with desirable features and price
They use good quality materials.
This is my first Van Metre Home and will be my last. The house is like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Everything looks good at first, but then you move into the house and it bites you in the ass. There is a lack of quality control overseeing the workmanship of the contractors used to build these houses. I don't know how the county/city inspector missed all this. I had holes in the HVAC ductwork that you can put your finger in it. The damper for the upstairs stairs isn't working properly. I'm still waiting on that to get fixed. The hot and cold water lines in the upstairs master and the guest bathroom on the other side of it were crossed. When you turned the water to hot it was cold and vice versa when you turned it to cold. The toilet in those two bathrooms had hot water filling up the tanks. The plumbers had to rip out a section of drywall to make the correction. I had to miss work at my new job for these careless mistakes due to the lack of QUALITY CONTROL.The bathroom in the basement had to be snaked because it was draining very slowly. I just found out that the two guest bathrooms upstairs have drain issues from construction trash. The one that has the shower only I saw that there was something in the drain pipe. I proceeded to take the drain cover off and saw there were pink and white foam bits (one was bigger than a golf ball) shoved down the drain pipe. I took a wet/dry shop vac to get them out. When I dumped the contents out of the vacuum there was 3 rusted nails. One half of a broken razor blade with those foam pieces. To me that seem it was intentionally put there to do damage. The pipe is still clogged. The other guest bathroom upstairs that has the tub has some white material clogging the drain. It could be dry material for all I know. I will have to put a new ticket in for for those two drains.
There was a live wire in the basement that our cable guy found. After we put in a ticket the electrician came and apparently they forgot to put in a socket.
The spigot on the back of the house is so close to the back door it's preventing us to put a deck in that direction. None of the houses in this neighborhood are in that location, they are about 3-4 feet from it. We talked to Mitch and showed him, he seemed shocked to see it that close to the back door. He said he was going to talk to his boss but never got back to us.
It's good.
The upgrades prices are quite expensive with vanmeter when compared to it other builders.
They have excellent building quality.
I am really impressed with Van Metre Homes. They have good quality.
This is my first home. I do not have a basis of comparison. I do have a structural engineering background, and I am not so impressed with their construction quality.
The AC Unit in my home did not work from the moment I purchased the home and moved in. Response to correct the issue has been very delayed as it has been over a month and I still continue to not have working AC in my home.
Horrible build quality, I’ve got pictures of things that were left off even after move in. Sales team are nice until after the sale, they treat you wrong. Managers (construction, sales, etc) all not really helpful (1 man throwing you to another to avoid helping you) nobody really cares here just there I guess for a paycheck and they don’t give a shit. I started seeing all this after we put a deposit.
The arrogance from the sales team, to the construction/PM, to the warranty team. Just a terrible builder to do business with and the home is cheaply built, to say the least!
I know we fell in love with our model from our first viewing. We are enjoying the layout, the ceiling heights are very comforting. We are settling in nicely.
The quality of all the material we have in the house is low quality because when we leave here, we can see it obviously. I have spoken to neighbors, and they agree with what we see at this property. For what we paid for this house, we are dissatisfied with the quality, especially with the floor, labor, and quality of this house. A family member owns a Van Metre home in a different location, and compared to theirs, the labor and quality on our home are low-quality. We heard they are building these in a short time, and they inspect them. That is why we are having issues, and we are having issues with the labor and quality. We are having issues because of that.
Buying a home is stressful, the team here contributed to making it a lot less stressful.
Like the style of the homes. Nice Floorplan.
The quality of the model home was good, and I expected the same quality in my own home, but I did not receive that. Overall, I am happy with their service, but there was a difference in quality.
Build quality, even more.
I thought the quality and their service were good.
Homes are beautiful! Process from start to finish was very professional, informative and organized.
I have already recommended Van Metre to a few friends, and they were recommended to me by a friend.
Great customer service
First home purchase, don’t have much to compare it to but it was pretty simple.
Sales people were friendly and professional
More attention to detail, better craftsmanship.
I’m more likely to recommend if you allow buyers to pick their options. Every other builder does