Manny
Hi,
We are planning to build our first home in Wellington. We are thinking of GJ gardner or A1.
Does anyone have any experience with either of them ?
Also please suggest your recommended builder and why.
Thanks heaps 🙂
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Mark
And Hi Manny
Here are our Wellington builders for you to check out…
http://www.buildingguide.co.nz/builders/wellington-1/
cheers
Mark
Michelle
Hi,
We are in the same situation as you, looking for some (any!) feedback on Wellington builders, especially GJ Gardner, A1 or Estilo…. Russell Homes too.
Not sure if its a good thing I can’t find anything about pretty much any in Wellington?
Mike Powell
Manny, coming to the end of s lengthy build with GJ’s, sadly the delivery experience has fallen well short of the sales pitch. Would be happy to provided you some pointers throughout the lifecyle, from moderating the sales pitch, pushing back on the contract (it is onerous and unfairly favours GJ with little willingness to budge), PM quality , Design validity, Communication. We have identified a number of learnings. Reality you are dealing with s large company focussed on closing the deals, not so interested in partnering with their customer during delivery. Don’t for moment be taken in by the ” we make it easy, end to end” pitch. You need to be all over the detail. Our experience with GJ Gardiner in recent has taken us from being raving fans to extremely disillusioned. Feel free to email me and I will share more
allan
HI, We wondered which area of Wellington your franchise was based. We are wanting to buildout the kaputt Coast and GJGardner has been recommended but we have also heard of people in the Wellington area having problems. We are not sure how many franchisees act in the area.
cj
Hi there,
MIke, what issues did you have with GJ? And who was your salesperson?
CJ
Hi Mike
Is that GJ Wellington that you refer to? hanks