Aside from a few issues encountered during the construction process, the house seemed to be progressing on schedule. The sheetrock was now on the walls and the ceiling was sprayed with a 1970s POPCORN CEILING. This sprayed-on ceiling is the DISTRESSING part of our new home, and NO ONE EVER TOLD US ABOUT the ceiling that would be placed in our new home.
Going back to the contract phase, the office manager / sales person never mentioned the variety of ceiling textures (smooth, textured or popcorn), nor was there a model home to look at except for the model kitchen and bath in the strip mall office with commercial ceiling tiles.
We brought this issue up with the office manager / sales person and after it had been sprayed on the ceiling, there is really no way of changing it. In this case, we believe that we were deceived by the Americas Home Place office manager / sales person as well as the project manager that was directing the construction of the home. Over the next year, we brought it up the ceiling issue to the three office managers and the last office manager recommended lowering the price of the home if the ceiling was a deciding factor on the sale of the home. He said this was a much easier solution than trying to change the ceiling type after it's been applied.
Each time, I recommended to the office manager to include the ceiling type as an option when selling a home, not that it helps us. After having the house on the market for a year during the height of the sales season in 2005, we got three separate comments from people that had considered purchasing the home--haven't seen this since the 70s.
Should have listened to someone I met in real estate school from the West Coast of Florida when I told him Americas Home Place was building our home for us, "They are well known for bad construction." At the time, I negated his comments saying we had a good team--little did I know the nightmares that would follow over the next 18 months.
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