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Moving back to Greenville...Eastwood Homes or Ryan Homes
DH job is relocating us back to Greenville from Atlanta, and I am so excited. I am also excited about getting to know the Upstate Nesties. We were looking into new home builders, and man are the choices slim. We have looked into Eastwood and Ryan Homes. Can any of you provide feedback on these builders?
Re: Moving back to Greenville...Eastwood Homes or Ryan Homes
LaurenBncha# will be a good resource for you. She's a real estate agent in the Clemson area, and I'm guessing she could let you know if homes from Eastwood or Ryan tend to have better workmanship since she sees them when she shows them years after they are built.
I live in an Eastwood home, and we've found some minor construction issues... like nails kind of working their way back through the paint/drywall, and some sort of edging tape they used on the corners is starting to let go so we're going to have to readhere it with glue and repaint or something. Those are the only problems we've seen and the house is about 5 years old.
So I wouldn't discourage someone from goign through Eastwood from my experience, but Lauren will be able to give you more of an expert opinion.
Aww, thanks for the accolades MrsZ, but we actually don't have Eastwood or Ryan homes where I work.
I do have a friend that just bought a new house in Greenville and his Realtor seemed to think that the builder was one of the best in the area. If you want the Realtor's contact info, just shoot me an email and I'll pass it along (lholmeswillis@coldwellbankercaine.com).
Geeze, I even suck at referring people to subject-matter experts!
When we were looking for houses in the summer of 2008, we looked at both Eastwood Homes and Ryan Homes because we could not find anything already built that fit our wants and needs. In my opinion, Ryan Homes seemed to be a little bit better construction and quality wise, but they were also more expensive. I would not discourage anyone from either builder. The only builder I would stray from would be McCar Homes, for their poor construction quality and likeliness to cut corners on anything possible. (just my opinion)
Also, it is hard to compare becaus a lot of the Ryan Homes communities are built on crawl space foundations while most of the Eastwood Homes are built on slab foundation. It just depends on your budget and preference from that standpoint.
In the end, building with either for what we liked was going to be too expensive, and we ended up finding a pre-built that had everything we wanted.
We live in a McCar Home and have found no problem with our home or those of our neighbors.
That being said, There were Eastwood and Ryan Homebuilder communities when I lived in Charlotte and again here in Greenville. I've not seen anything that would completely turn myself and DH away from either builder if we were moving again.
Good luck with your search and your move and welcome back to the area!!
Wasn't it your house that 3 years after it was built the glue still wasn't dry under the flooring because they used so much?
We used Jacob Mann too. I hope you have better luck with him than we did!
Welcome back to the area!
Ahhh...don't say that about Jacob. I have yet to meet him. He will be out of town this weekend so it'll be next week before we meet. He's been really nice over the phone...I hope he doesn't disappointment us.
Thank you ladies!!! I LOVE Greenville and can't wait to come back!
Wasn't it your house that 3 years after it was built the glue still wasn't dry under the flooring because they used so much?
MrsZ-specifically structurally there have been no issues. I'm sure if you get down to the guts of any house there are flaws-regardless of the builder.. regardless, I've yet to see an absolutely perfect house in any neighborhood here.
Ha! He works for my company. He sells a gazillion homes a year. He just sold one of my clients a home in TR.
I'm coming in a little late - but we purchased a Ryan Home in summer 2008 and haven't had any major complaints. We've had all the new home flaws (i.e. nail pops, house settling, recaulking, etc) and they came back once after a year and fixed anything we asked them to fix.
There are some people in our neighborhood who will complain about Ryan Homes - but they are complaining about things they knew already (i.e. if you have painted your whole house a different color in the first year and they come back to fix nail pops - they will fix it but not paint it.) All things that were explained clearly to us must not have been communicated to them...
Working with the builder really wasn't too bad either. The construction managers that we worked with aren't with the company anymore though.
I know there is one neighborhood that is sold on slabs (Gresham Park). Ryan Homes doesn't change the price whether its crawl space or slab (at least when we bought they didn't). But with that said - if you built a home in a crawl space neighborhood and you really, really want a slab house - they will fill in the crawl space with cement for no extra charge. We had several neighbors do that in our neighborhood - although I still don't understand why.
I'd recommend Ryan Homes. We've been happy with them overall.
Chickibaby,
How certain are you of this information? Can you site your sources? Eastwood homes also has an abundant of communities in Greenville County. They were voted #1 in Greenville County by JD Power for customer satisfaction and quality of homes.
In my research, I have found that Eastwood Homes are operationally and financially sound. McCar homes are no longer in Greenville, but Eastwood has seems to be going strong.
I would love to hear more information backing your claims on Eastwood Homes. All info is welcomed.