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Hi there What are people’s experience with Jennian Homes in the Wairarapa

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John O'Connell

Hi there What are people’s experience with Jennian Homes in the Wairarapa? We’ve spent nine months and spent nearly $30,000 on ‘working drawings’ but STILL not received anything other than a final estimate of $7,500 sqm and “oh do you still want the drawings” when we chased these? Many promises it will be “this week” – for a month… needless to say now with our lawyer! We got a sniffer they were out of their depth when the window joiner laughed at the plans and said it couldn’t be done and how come Jennian hadn’t raised it with you? When the only questions they asked was how big do you want the skirting Boards and what type of door handles do you want we should have seen the writing on the wall…!!! Clearly they prefer basic brick and tile homes but surely at some stage it should have been more than “just pay up and we’ll get you some plans”???? and NO – we owe you nothing in terms of professional feedback over the last nine months? We’ll keep you updated
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Mike

$7.5k per sqm? Good grief are they building the house out of platinum? It must be super super super high spec at that rate.
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T

I had a terrible experience with them and cancelled the build in the end (lost quite a bit in doing so). I would provide a detailed list of what I wanted as I like to provide lots of info, let’s say 10 items and they would do 3 of them and then I would be charged to change the plans to do the other 7 later. It was the worst experience ever. Stay away if you can.
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Craigy

Hi I am dealing Jennian Wairarapa at the moment. Any more specific feedback? I am worried with all the changes happening with the construction industry Thanks. Craig
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