Thursday, August 23, 2007

First Impressions of Americas Home Place

Americas Home Place has approximately 33 offices throughout the southeastern part of the United States. The company has offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Moving to Asheville, North Carolina in 2004, we rented a townhouse and proceeded to look for residential land and a builder. After hearing about Americas Home Place, we paid the local Asheville office a visit.

We met a young man named Chad that just graduated from a construction school in Utah and were impressed with his style. He was relatively new to the office and new to the construction industry on the whole--but we felt that a formal education in construction, a team of professional project managers and a well established office was better than hiring a local person with a construction license and a pick-up truck.

During that first meeting, Chad provided us with a series of glossy product sheets and an excel spreadsheet from which we could work out price-per-square-foot charges for each of the several dozen 'spec' homes Americas Home Place sells. We took the information home along with a list of potential properties and started our research. This was the first step to designing our dream home at, what seemed to be, a reasonable price for, what we thought, quality construction. Rather, in hindsight, our experiences with the Americas Home Place turned out to be one of the worst nightmares of our lives.

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