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Chenchen

Hi guys, I’ve read quite a bit reviews of companies in different areas. I know the big franchises companies are more or less the same. Just wondering if anyone have experience with building companies in Queenstown. We’ve visited Classic builders, GJ gardener, Jennian, Signature, Trident, Mike Greer, A1 homes, and some builders. As a first home builder, we tend to go with a big company as we know nothing about the industry and finding a builder by ourselves could ended up with more trouble and more money. We’ve also heard lots of different opinion about the same company, good or bad. And cannot find any of the comments online to help us make the decision. We are interested in GJ, Signature and Jennian. Then I read about all the bad stories with GJ here, so they are probably out. Not sure how different their QT branch will be… They did offer an attractive price though… So anyone here in Queenstown has any recommendation? Cheers
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Kathryn

Hi gjgs in Queenstown are the largest home builder in the area I believe, just a few friends have built with them and have been happy with the experience.
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Laura

Don’t go near them. We built through GJ with a different franchise, head office got involved at one point. Totally uninterested in helping the customer, nor making sure the franchise is providing any semblance of service or quality.
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Chenchen

Hi Kathryn and Laura, Thanks for your advice. I’ve asked around as well, there are many happy and unhappy customers from GJ. I guess one of the reason is because they are the biggest building company in the region. We’ve decided to not go with GJ and will keep looking at other ones. The most important reason for giving up on GJ is my friend who is a builder apprenticeship in CHCH says GJ is building a house next to theirs, and they use 1/3 of the material as they do, it is very poorly done. Also there is a GJ house building next to our current rental house, I do not like builders at all, they are very rude. They do build fast though. It is done within 6 months.
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Shaun

Don’t go near GJ in Queenstown, from my experience you will be promised everything by the sales guys and they deliver on nothing come time to get it in writing(and I haven’t even started building yet!). They offer an attractive price but it’s because they scrimp on quality. Generally poor to no communication once the sales rep got his commission.
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Chenchen

sorry it was a typo. It should be “they use around 1/3 less materials as they do” — based on a photo of a GJ house and their house. GJ house looks very empty. He said GJ house has 1.2m distance between the two horizontal frame, and their one is 600mm or 900mm (can’t remember).
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bille

We built with GJ south Christchurch ,very pleased . They build fast because they are organised (properly project managed) unlike some other builders I have seen in the same subdivision as ours. Very happy with the finish. Would go again with them.
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Chenchen

Thank you Shaun. We sort of feel the same when we dealing with them. So they are out from our list. And my friend who build with Jennian had the same problem. Jennian’s sales guys is very charming and efficient. However, once they paid the deposit, they were at the bottom of the list and things moving very slow after that. We are dealing with a company in Cromwell called Versatile now. I had a mate used to work with them and said they are great. We’ve only be talking for couple of weeks and they are nice and honest people. I will update the process as we goes on
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