Drees Homes Reviews

Overall Drees provided a good product in the end. Unfortunately, you’ll have to watch everything they do and constantly fight with Drees to get what was promised.

We liked the experience all the way from booking the home to completion. We are impressed by the constant communication about the home construction progress and delivery related issues or concerns. The quality of the construction is good and surely can be better on finishing touches.

Everyone was very pleasant and helpful.

I believe the builder tries to meet the needs of the homeowners, but they just have a hard time getting individual subcontractors and workers to come at scheduled times to complete the needed work on the home. We have been in the home about two and a half months and still have lots of items that need repairing or completion, but we are still waiting on individuals to show up. The quality would be better if the subcontractors work was supervised more closely by the project managers.

I really enjoyed working with the whole Drees team- a great buying experience

I do not have any comments.

Definitely get a private inspection done!. The sub contractor(Atlantic Building) that fixed my doors don't care about the work they did. Front door has been having locking issues. Drees put in an order for them to fix and i have had to technicians here but still need a replacement jamb. The first Atlantic worker had the attitude like I was bothering them with my report for the front door to be fixed. All the screws on the interior door locks installed were not tightened. A month and half after move in, the owner's bedroom door lock fell off. The door lock on the second bedroom got very lose almost coming off. I had to go around and tighten the screws on all the interior doors as they were all lose and shaking. HVAC unit cover over the filter insert won't close so I'm holding it in place with a tape. Horrible! Some of the tape on the HVAC system in the mechanical room has come off and I'm just wondering what is next. Basement bath needs re-caulking and Joe the builder has put in a work order to get it done but 2 months after move in, contractor hasn't done anything about it. I'm waiting on the 3 months work with Drees to bring up other issues I have to give them a fair chance to redeem themselves. It's a beautiful home from Drees but the sub contracting companies have let them down in my opinion. Overall, the sub contracting companies work is a reflection of Drees work and leaves me with a below average rating for Drees at this time. Hopefully Drees can redeem themselves at the 3 months walkthrough/follow up. ... More

Our experience with Drees Homes was great! Zen was our builder and he did a fantastic job as our project manager. There were things that were not addressed in our final walk-through, finishes that were not exactly to our liking, but overall our experience with this group was positive. This was our first time buying a house, so this gave us insight into what we will need to do for next time!

I would recommend Drees to anyone looking to build a new home. Their customer service is outstanding, and they built a quality home that we just love! Every step in the process was communicated and made the process very easy and enjoyable. Drees was very flexible and willing to think "out of the box" when we had special requests that weren't on their list of options. We are thrilled with our new home and would highly recommend Drees!

All in all, a good experience.

Very quick to respond and fix issues

The entire Drees Homes team was absolutely wonderful to work with during the construction of our new home using the Build on your Lot program. A special thank you to the realtor, Design Center staff, and builder - all were extremely professional and responsive to all our questions during the process.

For better or worse another's experience may vary ...my wife and I started our Drees process in September 2021. We took possession of our home Oct 31 2022. The biggest delay was 4 months for windows. Drees would like us to believe it was a supply chain issue however every other house around us started building after we did and got their windows seemingly on time but certainly no one else waited 4 months. We personally believe someone messed up and didn't order them on time or at all until much later. There were a number of administrative errors from the start down to the time closing. The vendors Drees uses tend to be sloppy with their work in our opinion. Painting looks like it was done by a novice. We've had plumbing issues. Windows aren't properly installed. Some things are addressed quickly, some aren't. Some things are minimized by Drees reps even though you know there is an issue. We can walk through our home and find something not right in each room. They tend to lean on "everything isn't going to be 100% perfect" which is true and not the expectation. The expectation is that everything be done correctly which there's plenty that wasn't. But it could be worse, we've had neighbors on our street that had to have bathroom floors ripped up due to bad plumbing jobs. That's our silver lining. This is the neighborhood we wanted to be in so it's hard to say if we would build with Dress again. Hypothetically if they're the only option it would take serious consideration next time. ... More

Aaron is incredible l love the Christopher home only issue is the sound proofing. Brooke was helpful, available and informative.

Overall it was extremely pleasant until the end with a variety of issues that needed to be completed prior to close, a few needed to be done two or three times to bring it to a satisfactory level. Our contractor was responsive but the business and customer support definitely was less than ideal. And the preferred lender to which Drees has equity shares/operates separately from construction was very unreliable, resulting in confusion and extreme frustration as “good to close” was definitely fluid and difficult at best. Overall it is a beautiful home and no new construction is perfect and as long as they stick to their word of addressing issues I would say they are overall a great choice in the large scale/custom home market. ... More

Everything went well with the new home builder. Very happy and would highly recommend. Our superintendent Marc was very responsive and handled everything professionally and in a timely manner. Our only issue is that we’re still waiting to have our floors on the first floor replaced due to water damage in several areas. Hopefully we can get this resolved soon.

Very honest Thanks on time completion

My Experience with Drees Homes was my best decision to purchase a home at Eagle Rock 70 Community. I was impressed with the workers from the realtor, Builder, Design Center and QC Lady. I recommend Friends and family that’s looking for a new home to purchase Drees Homes. thank you so much. I love my house.

Design Samples needs improvement. Construction quality isn’t up to the mark. No response for the emails after move-in. I wouldn’t recommend going with DYOL team.

I liked the overall experience. It was delayed three months and that became a problem because we had sold our house and we were living in a short term rental. Had we known that it would take 3 months longer, we would have rented for long term. The drywall and paint have been a problem. We used to build custom homes and I think the drywall and paint sub contractors were average and not good. They have had a lot of bad spots to repair. The stairs all have to be re-stained because the cleaners from the paint company left there towels all over the stairs while cleaning the rod iron spindles on the handrail because there was paint all over them, and they took the finish off the stair treads. Duh. Anyway, it could have been better quality for sure. The paint is coming off the exterior doors and its only been two months. ... More

Our experience building with Drees was amazing! Beautiful home

Drees processes for building our home were excellent. The steps were clearly defined. We were notified of progress throughout the build. Making the home 'ours' through the design phase was simplified with the professional we had to guide us. During construction they were flexible in making some last minute changes. We have been in our new home for close to 2 months and no issues have come up. So glad that we made the decision to go with Drees as friends told me of issues they were having with their builders.

Working with MJ and Jonathan throughout this process was my most treasured experience! With the most amazing Realtor (Gerald) I did not imagine that I would too receive such a great team from the builder! Well I did and they were thoroughly impressive, responsive, respectful and knowledgeable!!!! This was the smoothest home buying process all around, to include my lender (SECU)!! They all brought my vision to life!!! Well done!

Horrible craftsmanship. The builder is not taking responsibility. Won’t answer my questions. I closed and the house wasn’t even done. Took an extra month to be considered done. Don’t buy from drees. I and countless others have had a magnitude of problems.

There is disturbing knocking noise coming from the ceiling in my study room and unfortunately it does not look like it will be resolved any time soon