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For more than two decades, Heartland Homes has designed and built
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IMPORTANT: 3 months AFTER closing on our Heartland Homes home, we start having water infiltration issues into
our brand new custom built Heartland Homes home.Our Heartland Homes Pittsburgh review starts 3 months after closing.

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Our Structural Details, Building Codes and Inspection our Window Flashing our Foundation Electrical Panel issues Vinyl Siding/Flashing

Heartland Homes quote from Marty Gillespie, the President of Heartland Homes Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette April 2009.

"Do the research and make sure you know what you're paying for.
It's the biggest investment of your life."

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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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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,
Heartland Homes - Pittsburgh's #1 Custom home builder.
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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.

   
   


 

Heartland Homes wins Three Housing Excellence awards - 2008
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Heartland Homes Builders Association of Pittsburgh awards

"Heartland Homes has always been known for its attention to detail and fantastic home designs,
but on Friday December 12th - Heartland was awarded with three concrete examples."
 
 

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"Pittsburgh's #1 Custom Home Builder."

"More than 20 years ago, Heartland Homes was created with the desire to be the very best.
Whether a single-family home or an entire community,
our goal was then - as it is now - To exceed customer expectations on every level.

Today, our company remains resolute in our commitment to excellence.
We take great pleasure in offering exceptional value for every dollar spent in building your home.
What's more, we treat each and every customer with Honesty and respect. If it's important to you, it's important to us.

Quite simply, we at Heartland Homes are passionate about what we do.
In turn, we hope to share that passion with you throughout the creation and building of your dream home.

Our Mission Statement:
To create custom homes of the highest quality at an affordable price with excellent customer service that exceeds expectations.