Heartland Homes
Pittsburgh review
certified letter
sent to owner of
Heartland Homes.
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our Heartland Homes
townhome 3 months.
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Heartland Homes 6
months custom built
new.
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Heartland Homes
Pittsburgh custom
home builder of our
home.
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Click on our web gallery
above to go directly to our gallery where you can
manually go through every photo of our experience.
IMPORTANT: Review
our photos including
updated details &
photos regarding
our window flashing
on our
MAIN PAGE.
For now, we've
posted our Court Verdict,
Heartland Homes
appeal, our discontinuance we filed due to the
$26,000.00+ we've already spent
and the repairs we still have to pay for.
A brand new home leaks for a reason or reasons.
The builder told us they will "continue to
work towards a solution.." as stated above.
NO solution, NO resolution,
NEVER heard from builder after our 1 year
warranty was over until we filed our BBB case,
then trial.
Heartland Homes did NOT have an engineer
come to our home to point certain things out to
us. |
Judge Olson's
verdict in our favor.
The monies portion was only a small amount
because our evidence was not granular enough.
We got 3 or 4 proposals and after they were
all submitted, we were told by our Attorney to
pick
one proposal and the trial will focus on that
proposal for our repairs.
In HINDSIGHT & in
OUR opinion, the Attorney
already knew our initial Structural Report was
not
as detailed/granular as if should have been.
Once our evidence was submitted, almost 3/4 of
our proposal was tossed out because it did NOT
match up with our expert Structural Engineers
report.
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VIEW LARGER IMAGE) |
Heartland
Homes Pittsburgh appeal file
for the monies portion of our damages.
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We filed a
discontinuance because we were already be over
$25,000.00 upside down just in
expenses for legal fees, arbitration costs,
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LARGER IMAGE) |
We always want to make sure
we provide all of the details we have, so you have a
complete picture.
We are still beside ourselves every single day realizing
everything we had to go through and continue.
I've updated some of our Court Trial Details, you'll see
we won the verdict from the Judge.
However we decided to
file a discontinue with our case because we will be over
$50,000.00 upside down in our case with the
monies settlement.
We are just going to pay for all of our repairs
ourselves because we have spent some much of everything
already trying to get the builder to resolve our issues.
We did not initiate any actions until Heartland Homes
walked away from our water issues and never asked if our
issues were resolved.
When we sent the certified letter
to
the Heartland Homes office,
the letter was signed for and we still didn't receive a
response.
We had no other course but to take action.
We are not difficult people to work with at all. We work
hard, saved our monies and spent a few years looking for
the right home we wanted to buy.
We are not builders or in home construction. IN OUR
OPINION: FLASHING and WEEP HOLES are installed in a home
for a reason.
Even the window manufacturer Andersen Windows state
"UNIT must be properly flashed...".
Building Code
2003 state flashing and weep holes are to be installed,
etc.
Please read our MAIN PAGE link above for details.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
IN our opinion, if our home was built in 2003 and we
have the building permit posted signed in 2003.
International Building Code from 2003 stating
"...flashing shall be installed at the perimeters of
exterior doors and windows..."
How come in the 5 areas WE REMOVED brick & siding, there
is no flashing? See photos below, links above, etc. We
have tons of photos showing we have
NO FLASHING installed in the areas where we removed
brick or siding. According to our expert structural
engineer, flashing and weep holes are to be installed
which falls inline with the Andersen Windows document &
the IBC 2003 documentation.
IMPORTANT: Heartland Homes never had any
structural engineer visit our home. We would have known
and part of our court transcripts state that.
