Richmond American Homes Reviews

There was no one present for walkthrough or closing. We were alone. We had a great sales associate initially but when she left , the experience became worse. We felt alone and w had to constantly follow up on the process. Items in the home are still not complete. I would not recommend Richmond to anyone.

Did not clean up mess on my floors and in the garage floor,

The entire process was difficult and slow. Building supervisor never had much info on what or when things would be complete. Asked questions and never got responses. Always had excuses for delays and issues. Would never take responsibility for issues.

I don't even know were to start with this....the agent you guys have was one of the worst agents I have encountered, the day I was going to check the home, Myra knew we were coming driving 1hr plus and she did not even have the correct keys, When we arrived there, she just said that she did not have the right keys. So we went for nothing after that. She said the closing was one month from when we submitted the purchase contract and it took mostly 3 months also, she sent all the documents to escrow 2 weeks after we signed all the paperwork. For the final walk through. I am an elderly and I had to go to a Doctor's appointment and she did not care about rescheduling the first walk through so we only have one. Moving on to the next thing, Mike for the Home Warranty, he was and has been excellent in his job. Not so much for Gary. We have not gotten any information from him about the repairs that are still due. We have moved in almost a month ago and nothing from him not even a text or a call. Mike also tried to do a three-way text message and he did not even reply to that once again, Mike from Richmond American has been excellent Gary.....not so much. I have never felt such a disappointment when I am buying a home. I have been buying homes for a long time now and this by far has been the worst experience. ... More

Poor service and poor quality.

This was a terrible home buying experience. Terrible communication from Dan. Did walk through and most items were not completed at closing. Back yard landscape is extremely poor workmanship. No attention to detail in house. Dark cabinets and they install a white vent cover. No drawers in second bedroom. No place to put a towel bar. In master bathroom. The list goes on. . Hid the fact that we had a 12’ deep easement at the rear yard so back yard is much smaller than expected.

Make sure all sales incentives are reflected correctly prior to closing. Sales team is non-responsive even if matters are included and followed up on in writing with the lender, Gallery, escrow and Sales representatives. This is my second Home with Richmond American and this item has ruined the experience.

Awesome sales staff. Terrible build experience. Lots of promises and lip service from the superintendent. No one comes back after closing to address issues.

terible experience calls never ansered terrible

I loved the design of the house. However there was lot of things were not done before closing. They gave us bad walls, some walls they didn’t even finish painting, broken tiles with holes in the grout, bathroom tub has a big hole, light fixture broken, floodligh missing, roof was leaking when it start raining, the faucets are not properly sealed so the water drips down to the cabinet. Toilet paper dispenser they drilled a big nail. Big list. I bought the house I because I love the design. I know you guys take care of your customer, the supervisor David who build the house did a horrible job. I have to go through warranty to get things fixed. They forced us move when my wife was pregnant, I asked them if they can postponed the closing since the house is not done. They said NO. Very bad experience. But I am hopeful with the warranty. I don’t know if somebody going to actually read this message. But I am hopeful ... More

Warranty after sales is complete is nonexistent . Closed on November 11 and still can not use the hot water in my bathroom or shave in my private space I am paying so much for. My worst house buying experience ever. !

Need to be transparent and honest with new buyers

Our Richmond Home experience was not good. We will not build with Richmond homes again, and would not recommend it to family and friends. If fact we would ask them to steer clear! We felt significant pressure to close the house at the end of the month, only to find out the following month had better incentives & that others got $20-30K more in incentives. We paid a lot premium $20K to have a mountain view. Was told there were tennis courts going in behind us. When we moved in the houses they started building houses behind us and our view is almost all lost. This was one of the main reasons we choose this community. The closing was an absolute disaster. Richmond provided us a date for closing. We flew down to close the house only to find out it was not ready. There was no communicate on this. Also our sales agent was gone at this time, we were passed along to three different people. Eventually we started working directly working with the project manager directly (not sure why this was our responsibility) and it kept getting pushed out with lack of communication. This resulted in complications with the title company and we ended up incurring over $3k in cost as a result. When the sales associate got back we asked to speak to manager multiple times. We've never heard back from anyone and was told the cases was closed. We've been in the house for 2 months and still have not had our 30 day inspection. ... More

This was perhaps the worst home buying experience I’ve ever had, and now that I’m in the home getting warranty/crafting items taken care of has been a nightmare. There simply is no communication with Richmond American Homes.

I would not recommend Richmond to anyone. This was the worst home buying experience of my life. I have purchased 11 homes (6 of them new) in 4 different states. Richmond was by far the worst company to deal with. The sales associate was so short handed and over-worked that he could not get back to us regarding issues. They also changed the agreed upon price after I signed all of the paperwork. Then they tried to change it one more time and they relented when I threatened to back out of the purchase. At closing, it happened one more time. They gave all of the final closing numbers to the title company for a cash purchase. I WIRED the funds, only to be called back. The title company was informed byRichmond that they had made a mistake and that I needed to send an additional amount to close the deal. This was the most stressful deal that I have ever been involved in. ... More

It started with being told Richmond wanted to close at the end of September. I was told at the end of the month they had no intention of doing so and the construction crew had until the end of October to finish. My family moved across country and had to live in hotels and Air BnBs paying out of pocket. The garage flooring was left cracked with nails and glue still on it, ice maker in refrigerator still doesn’t work, home wasn’t pressure washed, yard was trashed during irrigation maintenance which still floods my yard. I had to reschedule movers multiple times due to Richmond’s delays. There was also u used paint, times, vinyl planks, long pieces of wood, and dead frogs left in the home. This is just to name a few things. I am now choosing to deal with it myself rather than Richmond. Terrible home buying experience over all. ... More

I purchase this home with Richmond because of the reputation and quality of the homes, I love my home. Will I buy again from Richmond American? NO! Manger Kim it is the most rude, condescending, disrespectful person I ever came across. Mortgage processor Paul, same condescending attitudes , did not disclosed loan fees and wasn’t responding to email or request to return calls. To busy for me. Closing process, walkthrough delay,Tom need it to have things done before closing and had 2 weeks to ge it done,, nothing was done.I’m still waiting) move in a month ago. Took 11 month to build and it was one of the last homes on subdivision, NO communication! I only had a good experience with one person was Casey, always willing to help, the problem is every body else don’t respond to him either. Very unfortunate that people ruin the home buying experience, like the homes but i will not recommend to my family and friends. ... More

I would like to express my concerns regarding the materials and design used in the construction of the new house. The materials chosen are of poor quality, and it appears that proper attention was not given to detail during the building process. Additionally, the overall design does not seem to have been carefully planned. For example, windows were not placed where they are most needed, resulting in areas of the house lacking natural light. In some rooms, the windows are too small to provide sufficient ventilation and daylight, which significantly affects both comfort and energy efficiency.

The home buying process with Richmond was difficult. There was a lack of communication and hiding information across the board. The actual quality of the home is poor and the workers lied countless times about what they fixed before move in. Now I don’t receive any responses for requests to fix issues within the home, including ones they claimed were fixed. The mortgage company (because you are forced to use their mortgage company and insurance company if you want to use the credits) sold the mortgage without notifying me. The insurance company was deceitful as well they provided one quote and then the representative I was working with stopped responding and their colleague completely changed it. ... More

This is our 13th new home that we have purchased Over the past 59 years of marriage and the 2nd worse experience. The home wasn't even ready for move in even after closing. They even left the home dirty and dry wall dropping everywhere in the garage.

Where do we start… We purchased our house sight unseen. The quality looked great on the brochures!! It is far from it. They use low grade contractors that don’t care how they build it. The craftsmanship is horrible. We have had SEVERAL issues on our house from day 1 and still going to day 95. Yeah sure they will send out their contractors but be for warned they will only patch or do amiss poor job repairing anything you ask them. We are living in hell and wish we could take it all back. We tried several times to contact their corporate center only to be ghosted!! Absolutely terrible communication throughout the entire process. We have never made a worse decision than this building our lives and we have built several houses. If we could give them zero stars we would……. You all have been warned! ... More

We were misinformed by the sales agent with an accent on a number of things such as side yard size, HOA fees, if the neighboring houses were already sold, who our neighbors would be, possibility of switching to another lot, how soon the neighborhood will be built out and others. She is a talented lier.

Not honoring the pre closing agreement to fix the standing water, backyard useless warranty rep and manager lies nothing is fixed fraudulent tendencies. I Strongly recommend staying away

From my experience there were many issues with buying a home from Richmond. I feel I got ripped off over and over again. My dad bought a home from Taylor Morrison and I can tell the difference in the quality of the his home and he had overall a better experience. If I wasn’t locked in I wouldn’t have bought this home from Richmond. Never again

Richmond Homes made what should have been an exciting milestone into a frustrating ordeal. We experienced misleading information during the sales process, lack of quality workmanship, and poor communication throughout. Now, 35 days after closing, we are still waiting on promised items. Overall, the lack of accountability and professionalism overshadowed the excitement of buying our new home. I would not purchase from them again.