Having issues with a home builder

[Ja Rhule]

With D R Horton to be exact. We signed contract to build our house back in April. Construction was supposed to begun over 5 weeks ago but nothing is build yet, not even foundation. I'd be alright with it but we agreed "verbally" to close on our house in September which puts us less than 3 months away. We contacted our builder and asked him wtf is going on? Why such a delay? He lied to us and told us that construction would start "tomorrow" but it didn't and it was over 2 weeks ago, instead builder is trying to build inventory instead of our house. We sent him an email today and he completely ignored us and instead start building 2 other inventory homes... I'm dumbfound of wtf is going on? I do not want my 300k home to be build in less than a month... What are my options?

[Darth Biscuit]

dealing with Alicejandra? Next week= tomorrow

Holy crap, if that's true the house won't be built for years.

[Ja Rhule]

I'm lost... please explain lol

[Darth Biscuit]

I'm lost... please explain lol

lol, sorry...

Aliceandra is the dumbass Saints* fan that said Drew Brees would be signed "next week"... like 3 months ago...

[Ja Rhule]

Oh yeah, I remember him lol...

[Floppin]

fire him. there are tons of contractors looking for houses to build.

[Ja Rhule]

D R Horton is not a contractor. D R Horton builds the whole neighborhood and we bought one of the houses. I wish I could fire em tho...

[pOpCoRnPoPpEr]

Horton, I use to build for those guys back in the late 90's early 00's.

[KendrickPanther]

Do you have a contract? I would dump them if at all possible. You should have had strong wording in your contract about completing the house on time. It's sad but builders build. They aren't great at the business side of things.

[Anybodyhome]

The builder does not have the ready cash to build your house, that's the issue. He's going to try and build a couple empties, sell those at a discounted rate just to get some cash in pocket to build your spec house. I'm guessing you have a bunch of extras added to the base home, which means he has to go get specific products instead of using the usual materials and he won't get his quantity discount.

Sure, there are plenty of builders out there wanting to work, but the big builders are getting killed because they have a lot of inventory on hand which is costing them money and the last thing they want to see is someone walk in the door wanting a custom home, or a standard design with a ton of upgrades.

[Ja Rhule]

I did not add that many things, plus its D R Horton, they loaded.

[Bronn]

sick your road ragin' asian on them

[Ja Rhule]

sick your road ragin' asian on them

He actually afraid of her lol...

[Floppin]

The builder does not have the ready cash to build your house, that's the issue. He's going to try and build a couple empties, sell those at a discounted rate just to get some cash in pocket to build your spec house. I'm guessing you have a bunch of extras added to the base home, which means he has to go get specific products instead of using the usual materials and he won't get his quantity discount.

Sure, there are plenty of builders out there wanting to work, but the big builders are getting killed because they have a lot of inventory on hand which is costing them money and the last thing they want to see is someone walk in the door wanting a custom home, or a standard design with a ton of upgrades.

This doesn't make any sense, unless the person is financing with the builder. If Arsen has outside financing all the builder has to do is start construction to begin being able to get inspected for draws from the financier.