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We recently had a terrible experience with latitude homes hawkes bay

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Janine and martin green

We recently had a terrible experience with latitude homes hawkes bay. Please don’t use them! Debbie the owner is unprofessional and worse customer service ever. They don’t seem to understand the variation process. We thought we had been very thorough in our specs and drawings and every turn they added money or delivered anything but what we had specified with excuses at every turn. We went over time and budget and still didn’t get what we wanted. The final product was rubbish. We went to lawyers but latitude homes didn’t seem to care and didn’t comply. We have now found two other couples in our small neighbourhood who have the same problems recently. We’ve had issues with costs for site works and foundations. Windows and doors arriving too large so the builder hacked away at the framing to get them to fit then made the holes too large and used extensive amounts of expanding foam to just fill gaps. They installed sliding doors that weren’t the ones we asked for then made us pay for new ones. We still have a double bed sitting in our hallway as they made the hallway unusually narrow and used narrow doors. We now cant fit a standard bed in to a 4mt by 5mt room! to be honest we didn’t think to even check. Terrible paint finish we still have holes in our walls where the electrician has moved plug sockets even though we moved in in October last year. Trying to get anything remedied has been a nightmare. Weve sent lawyers letters but they just don’t listen. We are not sure what else to do. We have concrete patios that are uneven and rough and multiple colors. The list goes on. The head office seems to have no control over the other franchises so these sorts of companies are terrible to work with. One piece of advice would be don’t go with a group type builder. In this case it seems latitude homes is just a logo that any ‘builder’ can buy and head office have no control over quality or if things going wrong. The business owner is unprofessional and extremely defensive as the builder is her son. Her son was often rude to us and had terrible time management often showing up to site in the late afternoon and then rushing to get things done leaving a un satisfactory result. In our opinion he was too young and inexperienced and if we had met him prior we would of cut our losses. We’ve built before and know the process and the two companies couldn’t have been any more different. Debbie at latitude homes is terrible to deal with and seems to have no process for anything. On our final inspection she showed up with no paper work and kept denying being able to see any issues. She took a scrap paper out of her handbag to write things on. It’s ridiculous. They kept using different contractors as they burn bridges and contractors don’t want to work with them. Then when work isn’t to standard we just get left with the mess or an additional bill. If you want to speak to us please contact me or reply to this message. Small claims court looks like our only other option.
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Nadine

We are in Wellington , the guy is a liar
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Nadine

What about going to the master build Ass. I think we are going to be in the same boat. ALIX from lower north island is the same. Not going by spec or drawings. Giving stories and lieing. We are about 60% completed and I hate the house.
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Carissa

Hi Janine and Martin Green, My partner and I are looking to build in the Hawkes Bay and were looking into Latitude homes. We are also dealing with Debbie. Would you be able to share some more of your experience with me? I’d hate for us to waste our time and money. My email is carissa_quaife@hotmail.com if you are able to share your experience. Thanks
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Hadenough

Master builders are useless, they are there to protect their members and nobody else. I have spent a lot of money with lawyer’s trying to help but master builders don’t want to know
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Raj

I am looking at them too – and yes sounds a bit genuine (and sales man types) but the cost is considerably lower than some others. I would like to know the quality of workmanship, ability to stick to budget and not go under from anyone who have used them before? Would like to hear more about’not going by specs’ – what are they changing and are the project managing the build themself? Seems odd that they would not stick to the building plan? Please respond. thanks
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Alice

Disputes Tribunal will be increased to $30k soon. Probably the best way forward for all of us left with building defects.
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