JNP Acquisitions Inc

The house is 5 yrs old now and has had problems since the beginning...every year there is at least one or two new MAJOR problems due to the poor quality of the materials used and poor workmanship. The latest has been a leak in a wall which caused over $600 in plumbing fees to find the leak (the glue seal failed) and over $1000 in sheetrock repairs in ceiling and walls where leak had to be found and caused damage. This year, also, over $500 paid in resetting up a/c unit, which had accumulated water in the *unit pan* last year (and which other various plumbers advised had to be completely replaced or repaired at prices varying from $300 to $1800). The heating unit is insufficient for the house and also has to be worked on (that's a future expense I'm not looking forward to). The guest tub also has no water running to the hot water faucet suddenly (another expense for future).

The quality of this company is so poor that I've had to replace every bath faucet due to pitting rusting, even on faucets hardly ever used, toilet seals have had to be replaced on every one of the 4 toilets in the house, and the list goes on. By the time I'm done fixing what was poor quality in the first place, I'll have another completely new house.

from 2010 to present, I continue to have problems with the house. The latest is leaks thru the French doors when it rains and in the last 4 months, 2 separate leaks in the walls have caused me to hire plumbers and sheet rock repair and painter people. Expense is over $2000. This is added to the fact I need a 2nd electrical circuit up to the attic since the house heater and water heater do not have sufficient amps to heat house adequately or a tubful of water. I have replaced all faucets due to poor quality... and am constantly finding repairs due to poor quality materials and workmanship.

In the first year after construction, there were several issues that had to be mediated due to the refusal by one of the two partners to even look at, never mind, fix subsequent issues. This included French doors that were leaking when it rained, chipped light fixtures and scratched glass shelving and bathtubs, getting a sensored stairway light to light up *both* the staircases it was supposed to light, moving the one temperature gauge/a/c-heat control gauge from the unoccupied 3rd floor to the 2nd /living floor, etc. Most of the major items were fixed at partly my expense and partly the builder's expense.
However, since then the master bath toilet started leaking and the builder's partner immediately identified it as being a bad "seal". It was and he sent a helper to fix it. Meantime a leak that had occurred in a storage room area (since the house was built--which the builder had ignored) suddenly seemed to have an explanation. Sure enough a different toilet, which sat above this ceiling leak, ALSO had a bad seal. I had to pay a plumber to replace that, check the two others (one of which was also bad, the other in good condition but hadn't been seated correctly), AND replace master and guest bath fixtures, which though chrome and supposedly "new", were pitting after 2 years.
From the time of construction, I also had told the builder something was tripping the breaker, shutting off power to 1/2 my kitchen. He said my old vacuum cleaner was doing it and to stop using it in that outlet. I did but shorting has been sporadic since. I recently had an electrician come in. He said the min reqmt is 2 circuits per kitchen and the builder did the min. However, with the size of the kitchen and modern appliances, usually the refrigerator should be on its own circuit and 3 zones would have eliminated the circuit tripping. Now that there are walls to go thru, it'll be a lot more expensive to install a 3rd circuit.
From the time of construction, I complained that the heat was "cold" air when I tried to use it. The builder had the electrician come in and the air then seemed "warm" at least. I didn't use it at all the 2nd year. When I just tried to use it this past winter, again the air was blowing "cool". The electrician I recently hired said a 2nd heating strip had been added but it was added to a breaker that only supported 60 amps total. The heating unit runs at at least 63 amps (heating already warm air).So the breaker would be overloaded if the extra heating strip remained and could cause a fire!
Aside from that, the electrician found a grounding wire had not been pulled into the circuit panel, making it potentially hazardous for shock, the wrong type of breakers had been used in the circuit box (meaning loose connections), and an additional grounding mechanism that was required by law pre 2011 had not been installed at all in the house.
So aside from all the replacement and repair costs I've already incurred in this 3 year old house, there is a safety issue electrically that will be another $2K to fix.
Substandard fixtures, a lack of care causing damage (to glass shelves, tub and commode enamel) and even violation of building codes relative to the current electric issues have made this house an ongoing money eater and emphasized cutting corners is more JNP's style in the end.

poorly. Everything is listed in my comments. There were so many issues that even if you could catch them all and refuse to close until they were fixed, many you would not know about until after the closing (for ex, the chrome fixtures in the master didn't start pitting and showing rust until a few months living in the house. Though I cleaned them weekly and water never sat on them for long, the quality is so poor that the normal seal on fixtures that come in contact with water isn't even at a basic level).
I also feel that many of the issues would have been handled by the partner doing the actual building/contracting work--- if you could get hold of him. But that was rarely possible (can't even leave a msg because vm always "full"). Instead I had to go through the partner who has no actual house building skills and be put off for months until I got worried that the year would be up and so I set up mediation (which that partner probably only attended because it was obligated by contract). Still, when the other items came up later that first year, he refused another mediation. Anything that was done subsequently was due to the 2 or 3 times I was able to reach the contractor.

Great!  I am very pleased and have referred JNP to family and friends.