Maronda Homes Reviews

I would highly appreciate that someone from Maronda or, if they can direct me to the respective personnel to assist me with this matter. The major problem is when it rains hard, I receive water from the exterior walls in my computer room and my living room. i have replaced my wood flooring twice in two years. All I want is for Maronda to live up to its part of the deal. I pay for the house and they build me a good product. That's the way it's supposed to work, right?

Needless to say, we went back to the old way we had it and that made us very upset. I thought it didn't matter no matter how many changes we made, they still get the money. The worst part is that we were told we would be getting the house for $219,000 but in the contract, the price was $235,125. The lot that was picked out for us, sat there with nothing done to it and we were told the house would be finished in May. This was back during the last week of December.

We paid these idiots $1,500 already as a building deposit and I am now trying to get it back. I just got a certified letter from the company saying that they are keeping the money and could charge us up to 10% of the purchase price for breach of contract. This made me so mad. They lied to us and not only that, we didn't have a lot of money left over for Christmas for the kids. That is what pissed me off the most. So now I am out of $1,500. How can this company get away with this? They didn't put anything into this at all except a permit. WTF!! I am telling anyone right now. Do not build with Maronda Homes. They will cheat you any way they can.

Whenever the rain falls, my foyer area and laundry area of my Sunbury Model Home is flooded. This matter has been brought to Maronda's attention in the past and on 2 occasions a Tech. came out and performed minor Caulking which never resolved the issue. I would highly appreciate that someone from Maronda or, if they can direct me to the respective personnel to assist me with this matter. I have little faith with the company, everything in the house worked until the Warranty was up. Since then, I have had to replace/fix my A/C unit, Dishwasher and now possibly my Front Door.

I was not expecting this and needed to pick up my poodle. She was very nasty and giggled every time I asked her a question. I could not get a straight answer out of her and she avoided answering questions about the cracking garage and porch at my daughter's house. She ended up hanging up the phone in my face before telling me she did not have a supervisor. This girl was ignorant to everything I asked her about. I hate that my daughter bought a house from this company. They cheese and grin in your face trying to get you to buy from them, then they treat you like garbage after the sale. Beware!!!!

We had a 3 page front and back list of everything wrong in the house. And still we have major issues and can't get anything resolved, even though we have structural warranties etc. that doesn't matter. All the windows are suppose to be airtight, they aren't, the wall are supposed to be insulated, they aren't, if you push on the wall the nails pop out. The ceilings all the plaster is falling off and nails are exposed, the kitchen ceilings you can see where the lines are from the dry wall, the floor are uneven in the master bathroom and squeaks, all the floor on the second floor squeak or you can feel and hear people walking and nothing can be done. The shower wall are suppose to be insulated with hardening foam but the walls move as well as the drains, the second floor loft the half wall moves even though they say it's safe. The banister for the stairs shakes, the laundry room had a broken pipe in the wall that had to be repaired, and I had a dehumidifier in my house for 3-4 days, as well as having to have the padding replaced ,as well as uneven doors through out the house. I had outlet covers missing that my three year old would try to put thing in the holes, the screens are a joke, a snake can slither through the sides.

The A/C for the second floor doesn't work unless you drop it below 73 degrees, imagine my electric bill, the Attic is not insulated properly, the walls are scratched, and or cracking and completely uneven from the floor to the ceiling. The mirrors are tarnished and I have to replace them, don't remove a towel bar because you'll see huge holes in the wall, they patched a hole in the wall in my daughters room and it had a very nasty patch job. I think my granddaughter could've did a better job. The appliances I had nothing but trouble with the refrigerators, the frames for the freezers freeze up and the rails need to be replaced, the motors blew out the shelves are uneven that the glass won't stay in place, thew counters bottoms have gaps big enough for bugs to hide. I had trouble for months trying to get my scratched counter side replaced. The front door water use to pour in when it rained, I had to replace the door. The outside door frame is cracked and splitting, as well as the outside wall structure is cracking as well. But the best part is when I found out by the inspector that my house as well as 4 other house on the same street were built on top of snake dens. Because I questioned why we have so many snake in the area and that was the response. It had just been a nightmare. I have a large family and I don't have the funds to do all the repairs necessary, between my high mortgage and the repairs that need to be done, I can't do it. But I will tell you this much I would never never again buy another Maronda Home.

We walked through with the builder and he placed a small piece of blue tape on every issue we had (many pieces are still there as of today 10/2008). We were bullied into signing the papers for our home later that day for fear of being sued (there words) and told not to worry, because everything was under warranty and we were protected. Here's a brief list of issues as of day one: rug was placed down in pieces with the seems coming up. Nails were left in rug and every member of my family was cut more than once.

Entire first floor laminate needed to be taken up and replaced because they pieced it together with scrap material and it didn't match up, every window but 1 leaked. The front door leaked. The soffits FELL OUT over our front door and dented in our front door. The ground was not level and when it rained, it came in my sliding door. I had hot water coming out of the cold labelled faucets and vice versa. HOT water flushing in my toilets. Outlets that didn't work or blew out. Kitchen countertop peeling off.

Center island not cut even and was caulked so poorly it was uneven and unbalanced, uneven walls and they never painted or finished the walls in our master bath. And when you took a shower the steam made the walls begin to peel (was told they did not cover the dry wall...oops!) Missing every window pain that I paid extra for (did received them 18 months later), never received the 2 window screens that weren't present.

A thief stole all of my shrubbery and landscaping, so they decided to fill it in with what they called monkey grass. I was the only home on the street that had no landscaping/shrubs (they felt this was ok), a thief stole my electrical box. So we had no electricity for a week, my irrigation was hooked up wrong and only worked in 1 zone so my lawn DIED and they said it wasn't their fault and would not replace it. Now lets discuss the Executive Community.

It was suppose to be gated and have lush grounds, well, they got through a loop hole in the system and the town signed off on the community before inspecting it and they never did what was on the plan that was filed, no 6 foot walls, NO IRRIGATION SYSTEM in common areas , NO GATE, and oh ya, NO LANDSCAPING AT ALL!! The community plan that is recorded with the town states a 6 foot wall and within every 18 feet there should have been a large shade tree, a small shade tree and 16 shrubs!

We got 1 shade tree every 50 feet and they died with no irrigation! The streets flood because of improper drainage and when the builders owned the HOA, it went bankrupt. So we had bills in the thousands when they turned it over to us (which we had to take or face the fact that the city would shut off our lights which was in violation and we could be sued), as well as many businesses wouldn't deal with us because the builder had defaulted on their contracts with them.

We signed HOA contracts stating that there would be NO RENTALS all owner occupied, that was a joke. There were more rental properties than owners and with the economy the way it has been, you can only imagine who those homes were rented to. We were told by Maronda to go ahead and sue, it won't do any good. What a fabulous company. I say that if you buy a Maronda home after reading all the problems that the other homeowners have mentioned, you deserve what you get and believe me, Karma will take care of Maronda and all of those sad little people that work for them.

This is not our first home and this is absolutely the worst craftsmanship I have ever seen in my life. We have done more than REGULAR MAINTENANCE and nothing has helped! I have spent more than $80,000 in upgrades and repairs since we've moved in here and now with the housing market as crappy as it is..... I'm screwed! I was told by Maronda that they warranty the materials, not the craftsmanship! What in the heck is that?!?!? They don't care.... they've gotten their money. Getting in touch with them is like trying to call the President directly!!! GOOD LUCK!!!! THIS BUILDER SHOULD BE THROWN UNDER THE JAIL!!!!

I subsequently contacted Maronda Homes (Orlando) again the following Monday they only allow email contacts and that was two weeks ago. No surprises here, we have not heard anything from Maronda. Honestly, these people are the WORST and I would not recommend this company to anyone. Well, maybe someone I hate. We had to have the carpets in the front rooms adjacent to these faulty windows steam-cleaned. But until the company replaces these windows we won’t know how much many more problems will result from such poor workmanship.

Forward four years later to Tropical Storm Faye. The flooring on our entire first floor was upgraded 1 month previously to wood laminate. TS Faye caused rain in Floriday for 3 days straight. Once again, the constant rain from the storm soaked through the stucco and into the house, ruining one half of our laminate floors on the first floor. In addition the front door was rotted and leaking, and 4 feet of our drywall needed to be replaced along the perimeter of our foyer and dining room. Drywall was molded as a result of the moisture.

The damage from both storms as well as the cost of sealing/painting our house totaled over $10k. What was surprising to me was to see the myriad of neighbors in my community who in the weeks following the storm had placed damaged floor boards, wood flooring, and carpet remnants along their curbs to be picked up with the garbage. While Im willing to concede that one case of water damage may be a fluke, the similarity and prevalence of these occurrences is alarming.

We bought our house 08/2007, it was a resale that had been built 06/2006. The home was very basic and that is what I expected for the money, basically a box we could personalize and customize ourselves. All I noticed was 1 crack in the ceiling of an upstairs bedroom. No big deal just minor cosmetic imperfections.

Tropical storm Fay dropped 2 days worth of rain all over the state. About a week after the storm while in the dining room I felt the floor buckle. We had upgraded to laminate in March 2008. Upon further inspection I discovered that 1/4th of the floor and some of the drywall was wet. All I found on the exterior was a small hairline crack. That crack was not on the wall with the most dry wall damage. We've since replaced the damage.

I am not looking for a hand out or a free ride on the down with Maronda train. I want the company to take accountability for shoty workmanship. I am an insurance agent and NOT ONE SINGLE CLIENT OF MINE HAS CALLED WITH A WATER DAMAGE PROBLEM LIKE THIS!!! In fact I only had ONE client with water damage and it was a leak in the roof. My parents have lived in the same home two miles from me for 15 years and they had NO DAMAGE.

I have read the wonderul educated responses from the people who believe that homes are not water proof and they are all built the same way. Last time I checked I did not purchase a house made of straw and yes I do believe my home should be water proof. This is the 3rd home I have owned and never had a water problem before. I talked my husband into buying this home and this is what happened.

Floor damage, wall damage, possible loss of resale value.

We are still trying to determine exactly where the water originated from. So far we have pulled up the carpet, pads, drywall and insulation from the dining room. There is still soaked paper and drywall almost three weeks later...along with mold and mildew.

There are numerous cracks in the stucco. You can see the outline of every block in some places. The contractor said the stucco was not applied thick enough by the builder. We also noticed a large crack through the garage and continueing into the house. A large crack in the corner of the garage on the ceiling and the block in that area has disjointed from the one below it shifting the house. Contractor stated this was due to poor foundation preperation. roof truss looks warped. sags downward between trusses. House is not level anymore.

I had sunshine state insurance come out and they settled for $1,441.00. I have to replace carpet and vinyl floor in bedroom and bathroom. cut out walls and base board and replace due to mold. Have entire house preped, sealed and painted and gutters put in on the sides of house. All this is going to cost me about $3600. I am trying to get a maronda rep to come back to the house after what the contractor showed me.

I am sorry but a house barely 4 years old should not be leaking from the foundation or from the walls. I owned a house built in the 1970's previously and NEVER had a problem with leaking. The only thing I ever replaced on that house was the roof. Water never came in through the walls. Maronda has slapped these houses together and reaped huge profits while all the while claiming easily observable better value. That's a load of you know what.

How can it be a better value when everything starts falling apart as soon as you close. I have cracked tiles all over my house and the tile people say its because of the foundation beneath. Why the state of Florida allows them to get away with this is beyond me.

Although it is not what people want to hear, homeowner maintenance is crucial, and just as anything else you own gets damaged over time, you repair it, right? Then why not do the necessary routine maintenance on your home as well?

I have worked for High-end Top National builders as well as Maronda Homes in my 10 yrs of real estate sales and I have news for you people pointing the finger at your new home builder, EACH BUILDS TO THE SAME STANDARDS, LOCAL/COUNTY BUILDING CODES, AND USES THE SAME MATERIALS!

It appears everytime we have heavy rain caused from tropical storms/hurricanes the media takes a few coplaints and runs with it, but we need to keep in mind we live in Florida and with humidity and rain it's a good chance your home may end up with mold unless you, as the homeowner, take the necessary steps to maintain YOUR HOME.

Yes, I live in a Maronda Home as well and have nothing bad to say about their quality of construction or customer service. The entire homeowner maintence manuel was explained to me as well as their waranty, it does not warrant for mold, not one builder in Florida will! If there are any latent defects due to workmanship, Maronda will come out and fix it. What they will not do is be held accountable for lack of homeowner maintenance. Especially when you put in your own floors! Come on now, use your brain, why would someone come out and fix something that they did not install?

One must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it is, in fact, a latent defect caused by construction. Anyone that knows anything about construction should very well know that new homes settle within the first 6-12 months. This will usually result in hair line cracks in concrete, cracked tiles, and cracks in stucco. Homes are in NO way waterproof and we should all treat them as such. If you see a crack, seal it.

Buying a home is a huge investment, why would you not maintain your investment?

I would absolutely refer Maronda Homes to my friends and family, I have a beautiful brand new home with zero issues. I am confident in the company enough to say if an issue does arise, it will be repaired. Maronda is one of the few Builders that back up their product.

We have emailed Maronda twice over the past two weeks but they have not responded or acknowledged our email request. This current problem is just a continuation of the original problem since the purchase date, and we believe Maronda needs to honor the warranty since it is still the same problems. And if that was not enough, some of our upstairs windows leak, the upstairs floor squeeks everywhere when you walk on it, and two of the floor beams are now higher than the rest so it sticks up from underneath the carpet.

Anyone have any ideas how to deal with Maronda for these problems?

We have had to pay out thousands of dollars to have the air handler fixed and the mold removed. The medical bills have accumulated as well.

If you have this many homes with exact same problem, and you change models and years go by, can you probably guess there is a defect at the top all they way down. I think we need a lawyer who is not scared and has the ability to not be buried in paperwork bring this to a committee. I think we need to have a full service inquest into the company. Maybe they need to contact EVERY SINGLE Maronda homeowner of record past and present and get a quick questionnaire filled out, leaks, comments and ratings.

oh lets see.... i have ripped out drywall, replaced doors, painted, sealed, lost clothing and now have to have mold removed. no baseboards will stay up because of water. I am ripping out the floors again.

We left the house in excellent condition for the new owners. We spent a total of $8000 to correct all of the defects and to pass our 2nd inspections.

The roofers came and fixed it but it started leaking again at the next rain. They came out again and reapplied some tar stuff and the drywall guys fixed the wet ceiling.

Now about 4 months later it leaks worse than before and the ceiling is actually falling in where the garage door attaches to the ceiling.A week and a half has gone by since we contacted Moranda and still no roofers.Of course it is now hurricane season so the roof will only get worse.The roofers and the drywall people tell me that the problems we are having are very common with the model home we pirchased.Getting Maronda to do anything is very hard and a superintendant will not come by at all.

We have lost time from work from having to always be here when the work was done.

You constantly are looking up to see if more cracks have appeared and we lost tax storage boxes along with many invaluable personal items when the garage ceiling leaked into them. We cannot park a car in the garage because the ceiling will fall on the car.

Our front door leaked and our carpets got soaked in the front room during a storm, the doors don't line up and shut, our foyer arched window had to be replaced, we've been in our house eight months and have not recieved our six month inspection. There is no hot water going to our garden tub, mold grew in our home and all three of my kids go bacterial pneumonia from it, and our foyer arched window and patio window had to be cut from the dry wall and replaced. We want out of this house out of Pine Bluff community and we want to go find us real home!

Kids got pneumonia, mold grew, rain inside our house, carpet replacement, paid insurance deductible.

Our entire experience with Maronda has been wonderful. The sales lady explained everything thoroughly and gave us the time we needed to make our decision. Our construction guy was great. He responded to our questions honestly and quickly. Our closing went smoothly, unlike some of our friends experiences. We have had no problems with our home. Everything works, our utility bills are less than our apartment which was half the size, and we got a great deal on the home.

Most of the negative comments seem to come from Florida, so maybe Maronda has some problems in that area. All I know is that everybody in our subdivision in Maineville, Ohio love their home. We even have one neighbor who is living in their second Maronda home.

Maronda homes was contacted through my wife and was told it only has a 1 year warranty to the original owner only and there was nothing they could do. Two hours later Maronda homes calls me and tells me they thought that they could help me. Great , I said. They sent out their roofer and inspected the roof , and he agreed with my roofer (they spoke on the phone while he was on the roof) that it was definitely a poor job and it had problems. By the way , this roof is only 7 years old. Maronda's roofer said that his company has had to fix a lot of roofs by this contractor that worked for Maronda during that time.

Now...Maronda calls me and says they are not doing anything on a 7 year old roof after telling me they would. Im screaming mad by now! This is whats wrong with this country and the housing industry now, because people slam out a bad job and take the money to leave the problem for someone else to deal with.No one wants to own up and be responsible to keep a quailty product. I honestly cannot recomend Maronda Homes to a new home owner. I think a mobile home company probably has a better warranty and customer service record.

Our attic and insulation continues to get wet as well as the drywall and carpet if we dont put a bucket down to catch it.We still have to find the funds ($1900.00) to patch and I mean patch the bad area just to stop the leak. Then we have to pray the rest of the roof will not blow off or give us any more problems. We will have problems selling this home without replacing the roof now.

My yard is uneven, they didnt roll it before they poured concrete, had to have them to come back out. After they rolled the yard, the patio is now uneven and I am scared of someone stepping off side and breaking ankle. We have been in house 7 years now and still finding problems. Spending over 28,000 to get house the way we want it.

Harry the president of moronda homes knew about all off this but didnt care. he was too busy taking customers and potential customers to court. or maybe the company was being sued, either way he was at some kind of court hearing at least twice a week. everyday i left work feeling like crap cause i could belive how this company was treating people and worst off, i was part of it. they build thier homes out of inferior materials dont up hold thier warrenties and steal peoples money if they back out of contracts. just thinking about what i was part of makes we want to throw-up now.

Mold exposure, lot of damages to property, expensive remediation and restoration.

They use the cheapest material when they build these homes. If you are looking for a new fixer upper, then go ahead and buy a Maronda home.

The A/C seemed to be running all the time since I bought the home causing huge electric bills. I reported it to Maronda and they sent people over 2 times. Each time they came in and adjusted the vents saying I didnt have them pointed in the right direction. Needless to say it didn't help. I thought because it was a new home with high ceilings and most likely had very little insulation this is why the home would not stay cool. Finally the A/C just seemed to stop working all together. It wasn't blowing air at all. I called an A/C guy on my own. He came over said they never had put Freon into the A/C and that it was a common occurrence with Maronda.

Next up. I pulled the carpet from the bedrooms and living areas. Cracks are everywhere in the slab. The garage flooring has cracks everywhere too. Everyone of my neighbors have cracks in their flooring too. If they have tile in their kitchens then the tiles are cracked as well. Overall, I am unpleased with my home. Every person I talked to about Maronda Homes after my purchase told me they had heard nothing but problems about this company. Be warned.

They did nothing, not even respond to see all the water build up in the wall at the base that eventually seeped inside. I contacted State Farm; they came out but did nothing as well other than say the home is still under warranty and to take it up with Maronda. After months of being lied to and eventually no response, I gave up and had to pay out of pocket to have the floors replaced in Feb. 2005. The first thing the contractor noticed was that the floor wasn't leveled properly so I had to pay extra for that to be done before new flooring could be put down. As of this very day you can see the rotten wood from water damage along the base of that entire side of my home compared to the wall base anywhere else in my home.

They sent an adjuster who stated In this adjusters opinion, sunporch drywall ceiling became saturated with water and collapsed due to improper installation/flashing where sunroof attached to the east wall of the residential structure.Someone attemped to caulk or use stucco material to build a transition-but the product broke up or large enough gaps were present when the roofing material was installed to allow significant water intrusion into finished ceiling (insulation/drywall ceiling. Damage was most likely caused by improper building design and or installation. I was told by Maronda staff that my home would be repaired but they won't take my calls and I have to leave voice mail messages and no one returns my calls. I wrote a return receipt letter and received no reply.