CVE Homes

Horrible!! stay away!!! i thought the construction of the home went bad but i was wrong, the bad stuff didn't start happening till after the i found out how worthless the home warrant was. I've had to have my home re wired,  re plumed, my drywall looks horrible  with cracks and unfinished marks the cement pouch out side is crumbling.  I've had to add insulation where they did not. my kitchen cabinets are splitting. did i mention I've only lived here 10 months . i could go on and on but those are my top complaints. contacting cve is worthless, it takes them 6 weeks to tell you to call the subcontractor which tells you the cost you have to pay out of pocket. i have spent 1000's getting a lawyer involved out of pure principal but it doesn't seem to help. these are horrible people only out to make as much money as they can before the state shuts them down. DO NOT HAVE THEM BUILD YOU A HOME!!
 cve is considered a custom builder but i would call them anything but...
changes i have made to my home during the building process have cost me
anywhere from 100%-900% more then they should. example. i wanted to add a irrigation system later after the build. the well pump was not big enough to support it.upgrade fee $975, cost difference at lowes and home
depot $110-$120 (this was before one was installed at all) ..
want to do your own flooring sure no problem but we are only going to
credit you a few hundred dollars and the cost is on you (in my case it
was 6k) want a custom shower head that you provide ...you gota fight
with them and in the end its $1000's to install....they are a great
cookie cutter builder that doesn't like to let you in on anything till
its done but i would not recommend them as a custom home builder it will
cost you 8 times as much. site supervisor mike is the absolute worst.
he doesn't even want me to be near the house until it's done, I think
that's because they keep messing everything up from little things like
the siding being put on in the wrong place to the trusses being put on
backwards

CVE builds a quality home for a good price. They also are willing to  customize any of their existing floor plans to suit your requirements. The design phase was the worst. I designed the upstairs and even drew up the plans using google sketchup and gave them to CVE to translate to real plans and troubleshoot any building problems my design would cause. It took over 3 weeks to get a response. Finally, after much pushing, They just handed back what I gave them! They never designed anything.
I ended up designing 2 different sets of upstairs configurations. I see one of my designs is posted on their web page as theirs.
Design team, horrible for responsiveness.
Building team, great work.
Site build manager, great. No nonsense, matter of fact, very hard worker.
I was an educated builder having built before so was pretty on top of things.
Several of my neighbors had problems since they were not attentive during the build and a few things got past them.

Horrible, and still a continued battle to get the house completed and fixed.  It has been the longest 7 months of my life.  The selling of our old house was so easy in comparison, and that realtor was a dream come true!

DECEMBER 5th 2012  UPDATE*** We finally had to call CVE back for the plumbing problems we've been having.  One toilet won't stop running, another won't flush at times, the garbage disposal leaks if you turn it on while draining the sink, and our master soaker tub faucet snapped off from the mounting done by Barlett Plumbing.  CVE is bringing Bartlett back out, but CVE owner Scott and Bartlett are claiming we said we would take care of the tub ouselves when we told them to leave it alone.  This is partly true - we told them we would take care of the leak that Bartlett couldn't seem to stop - that was done and was only a pinched washer.  Bartlett is now claiming the faucet was broken.  This is not true, and we have another plumber who handled the initial mess to back up the story.

CVE also receives an F on follow-up problems with the "warranty" they promise. 

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