Kaye Lifestyle Homes
About us
With almost 30 years of experience in Southwest Florida, Kaye Lifestyle Homes has built over 3500 custom homes that fit the individual needs of each customer. Whether you are looking to build your dream home or seeking an easy move-in ready home, trained and courteous professionals will help you every step along the way to ensure peace of mind. After all, at Kaye Lifestyle, it's all about you!
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Kaye Lifestyle Homes is proud to offer custom home construction, and home/property resales., home remodeling
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KAYE CUSTOM HOMES now KAYE LIFESTYLES HOMES ......kayelifestylehomes.com **** PLEASE HEADS UP THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LUXURIOUS ABOUT THESE HOMES BUILT BY **** STUART KAYE ****. IF HE COULD BUILD IT **** CHEAP HE WOULD FIND A CHEAPER **** WAY POSSIBLE !!!
I think they completely ignored all of the updated new Miami-Dade Building Codes back at that time there was a MAJOR UPDATE done in 2001 !!! Purchased a home of his co'd in 2/2005 in July 2012 in Golden Gate Estates E of Everglades and S of Desoto. There are so many issues in this house from the roof to the foundation and from front to back to back and side to side also around the house the grading is horrible,
HOW THIS HOUSE WAS PASSED I WILL EVER KNOW - I PULLED EVERY SINGE CONTRACTOR AND THE PERMIT PROCESS FROM COLLIER COUNTY AND HAVE TRIED TO WORK WITH THESE VENDORS THEY HAD HAD NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT KAYE.
The GRADING, cannot walk around the house the incline is so steep, left trees in the dugout used to elevate the house.
The ROOF is disintegrating and falling apart from the lack of ventilation.The ONLY ridge vent was installed on top of the garage NOT on top of the highest point.There is NO other roof vents except the normal underside fascia.vents, but heat RISES does not DROP !! The roof on either side of the entryway is so soft you can push with your hand, the roof looks like a roller coaster in the front and back bc of the far spacing btwn the rafters I've been told builders do this to SAVE $$$. Straps & diamond plates are actually not wrapped properly around the beams with nails, they are left hanging in mid air, the plates don't have nails securing them they are only pounded in.
DRYWALL in the house in SOFT it is the only way to explain it. try hanging something and it falls right off, I literally have to use butterfly fixtures to hang anything I cannot use any type of regular hooks they picture or whatever I am hanging will fall right off, It's very bizarre. Tried looking for markings on the back of the drywall up in the attic and either the paper backing is torn off or positioned in such a way that you cannot see it.
The FOUNDATION in the master bedroom, bathroom and the garage has very large cracks up to 1/4" wide that span the entire length of the rooms multiple cracks at that. MULTIPLE IN ALL ROOMS. WALLS IN EVERY SINGLE PART OF THE HOUSE INSIDE AND OUT HAVE CRACKS most are vertical and some are horizontal, even in the ceiling.. There are also cracks in the patio area that run from the roof, down the walls onto the flat surface area of the floor. The PAINT used inside and out was the cheapest possible. On the inside using a flat paint and painted the walls and the ceiling the same color in EVERY single room in the house !! Even in the bathrooms and the kitchen where a semi-gloss or a more durable paint should be used they used a flat very thin paint. The CABINETS of course are not even wood but cheap paper covered pressed board, IDENTICAL in the bathrooms and the kitchen.
The TILE is POPPING bc it was not properly laid on the floor, TOO CHEAP to finish under the cabinets, actually used BROKEN TILE under the dishwasher and frig, in the baths under cabinets. tile in the showers are falling apart, grout is cracking apart, after the inspection it looks that the shower liner may be too short as well, cracking tile in the bathroom walls and showers
The WINDOWS and SLIDING GLASS DOORS are not even white aluminum or vinyl they are PAINTED WHITE aluminum, the window do not fit they are impossible to open and close, cracks are in the walls inside and out at EVERY single window. NOT ONE IS MISSED !!!
The BATHROOMS very basic faucet fixtures and lighting fixtures you would think you were back in the 70's not in 20th century in 2005, the toilets used were also low sitting not higher toilets and not even high efficiency !!! The INSULATION that shows on the blueprints does NOT MATCH that of what is in the ceiling, at that there is insulation missing over the entire back of the house.
I'M SURE I'M MISSING SOMETHING BUT LITERALLY EVERY INCH OF THIS HOUSE IS THE FARTHEST THING FROM A LUXURY CUSTOM BUILT HOME .... ITS A CHEAP PIECE OF CRAP. KAYE COULD REALLY CARE LESS ... HE STATED, HE LOST HIS RECORDS, HE DESTROYED THEM, HE FILED BANKRUPTCY, HE DIDN'T NEED TO KEEP THEM, THE HOUSE WAS OVER 5 YRS OLD SO IT WASN'T HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO HANDLE IT I NEEDED TO GO TO THE WARRANTY CLAIM (WHO BTW SAID THE HOME WAS POORLY BUILT THEY COULD DO NOTHING ABOUT IT) .. I LITERALLY HEARD EVERY EXCUSE FROM HIM, SO DID MY REALTOR.
The warranty 2-10 that is offered if an ABSOLUTE JOKE .... I FILED A STRUCTURAL WARRANTY CLAIM on the house because that was all that is left to file. The company sent out an INCOMPETENT & INEXPERIENCED man from Orlando by the name of Kevin who just complained over and over that he had to drive here to Naples from there.The 1st time he came out here his report was so bad and incomplete the main office in Colorado sent out a 2nd rep by the name of Mike and demanded that Kevin show back up who was over 45 min late coming from Orlando again. you could tell he did not want to be here at all.
The Kaye's contractor's has left so much building debris in the soil around the house it is just unbelievable, every time I am digging to plant something I am pulling up broken tile and concrete blocks, wire and other building materials it just unreal.
EVERYTHING I DESCRIBED ABOVE WAS IN 2-10 WARRANTY REPORTS BUT REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE DAMAGE BC THEY STATED IT WAS VERY POOR WORKMANSHIP IN ALL ASPECTS. I WAS TOLD TO GO AFTER THE BUILDER and CONTRACTOR !!
The area in back of the property where they used to dig out dirt to raise the foundation is a small lake, but they also left all of the trees in that area which is ILLEGAL to do. It is considered dumping and they should have been removed, but just like everything else that was done they didn't give a crap. It's filled with very large trees that now must be removed adn i am going to be going back after the builder to pay for this !!
THE ONE THING I WAS WARNED ABOUT FROM KAYE HOMES THAT IS VERY SERIOUS FROM EVERYONE THAT HE IS FAMOUS FOR CLEARING THE LAND, NOT DOING IT PROPERLY AND LEAVING WOODED DEBRIS BEHIND. DOES A COMPACTION TEST, HE WILL PASS BECAUSE ITS SO EARLY BEFORE THE DEBRIS WILL BREAKDOWN. WHEN THIS HAPPENS IT CAN LEAVE FROM A SMALL TO A LARGE VOID UNDER YOUR FOUNDATION - THIS IS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE MAJOR ISSUES WITH YOUR FOUNDATION CRACKS IN THAT AND THE WALLS BOTH INSIDE AND OUT. FORTUNATELY FOR ME I CALLED EVERY SINGLE GROUT COMPANY IN THE AREA THAT WORKED WITH KAYE AND THEY TOLD ME THAT YES THEY HAD REPAIRED MANY, MANY HOMES FOR VOIDS UNDER THE FOUNDATION IN THE HOMES HE HAD BUILT BUT MINE WAS NOT ONE OF THEM. THE OTHER THING THAT IS DISTURBING IS THAT THERE ARE NO PERMITS REQUIRED FOR THIS TYPE OF GROUT FOUNDATION REPAIR WORK.
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