Any other quality suggestions

Anyone building with Landmark Homes would be well advised to do their due diligence. They market themselves as Luxury Home builders,do not be fooled by flashy show homes or slick salespeople. Landmark Homes have a very one sided contract that is heavily biased toward them to the point of being an “unfair contract”,they will not accept any changes to the contract. They make extensive use of ” P SUMS” in their contracts which is a best guess of cost which they don’t have to adhere to. So your quoted price may be considerably more than the actual price sometimes as much as 100-150%. If they are professionals then they should know what the cost is not mislead people as to what the actual cost is as lets face it all money is hard to earn and unexpected cost overruns can be very stressful. They do have good designers and salespeople,but thats where it ends,once you pay your deposit you are treated more as a nuisance not the paying customer. They hire the cheapest labour they can without verifying their skills with huge consequences. Would you want to risk it. Run their contract past your solicitor first it may save you some anguish.

Hi John, Well said. First thing to say to everyone writing to this blog, who seems a bit inexperienced in the building game, is to press ctrl-F, and a search box will come up at the top, labelled ‘Find on page’. If you type in a word it will highlight that word throughout the blog. In this case for example putting in ‘Landmark’, contract, provisional sum, PC sum, etc will reveal many very interesting comments. I’ve written on this blog several times before to remind people that the FIRST thing they should look at (certainly before handing over money for anything) is a copy of the builder’s contract. If they are not qualified to review it themselves they should get a suitable experienced solicitor (many claim to be, but not all are), or someone like an architect, civil engineer or QS to look at it. If the contract is too biased in the builder’s favour, and he’s not willing to change it, then walk away. If his sales people etc try to tell you they never actually apply any of those biased clauses, then ask why they can’t be deleted. Of course we all go into a building project hoping that everyone will be professional, honest and reasonable. But if things go wrong (as they so often do) then all you have to rely on is the precise wording of the contract. I’ve also written about the pros (there are some), cons and proper use of PC Sums and Provisional Items/Quantities, but it seems people seldom go back and look at what’s been written before, which is really not making best use of this blog.

Not new to the industry. And well aware of the contract flaws of most builders. I am looking for a review in specific to this franchisee. Contract aside, how was the build process and quality etc. The legal stuff will go ahead or it wont, but no point starting the process if the service is not there.