K. Hovnanian® Homes Reviews in Cleveland, OH

Very happy with everything. Monica, nick, and jake. Thanks again.

We had never built a home before, so we didn't know what to expect. During the process we were kept informed about everything, and everyone we dealt with was professional but friendly. They were truly concerned that our house met our specifications and all of our questions we're answered. Overall a great experience and a great home!

Overall great company for building modern homes, however dissatisfied with the inability to make slight changes to the floor plan, and charging for the 2nd outside garage light was petty. Poor choices on countertops and flooring. Items that should be part of standard are added as upgrades such as normal size toilets, etc. The paint and cleaning were very poor. The house was delayed by a month due to incorrect plans submitted to the city, with no sense of urgency or any offerings of compensation (I paid hotel room an extra month). Other than apologies and it’s only an estimate on delivery, no efforts were done to bring it closer to the due dates. Sarah the sales manager was great and courteous as well as Joe L the construction manager. ... More

Sales manager (Marlene) and construction manager (Keith) were great. A few bumps along the way, but that’s to be expected. The recommended mortgage broker was a NIGHTMARE. Would not recommend him to anyone.

I love my new home and would build again with K. Hovnanian Homes!!

At time of purchase everything sounds perfect: the price, the options, the final product. The selection of structural options is not the worst but not the best. ie. you can add a door to the garage but can’t change the location of that door along the same wall. The selection of interior finishes was good. Our interior designer was excellent at pointing out what options were a good choice. During the pre construction meeting we establish how the process would go and were told we could visit any time we wanted without interfering with the construction process, which is understandable. Construction was ahead of schedule in which you pay the price with the poor workmanship. We paid for upgrades to base trims and cabinets. What we got were scratched cabinets because of poor handling, poor finish on corners on trims. When we pointed it out we were told the final product would look perfect. To not focus on the ugly duck phase of the construction. You can put all the caulk you want but if it’s not cut or installed correctly it will still look bad. And yes the final product looks bad. Windows were installed with defects. If we didn’t point them out and ask for the construction manager to verify with the manufacturer we would still have bad windows. Building materials... we had some studs that didn’t look good and some were cracked. We were told that the cracked ones were going to be fixed by adding a support, we don’t have any evidence this was done, since when it was repaired no pics were taken and sent to us and the drywall was put almost immediately to keep schedule. The stud that looked rotten, we were told it wasn’t to be replaced since it wasn’t a bearing member it was just for drywall purposes. I don’t agree with that but still no change. We selected granite countertops, the supplier got a bad batch, we were notified and a change order was done. Kudos to our interior designer. The poor workmanship in this house can be seen since you enter the front door. The spray painted door has spots on the underseam that you can see wasn’t painted correctly. The base trim inside and outside corners are awful between chipped, not squared, “ fixed” with caulk and painted over leaves a lot to be desired. Some were replaced after pointing out, we could still see the damage caused by the installing crew. Chipped tiles “fixed” with caulk, drywall holes fixed with mud and being painted over skipping the sanding process. This would’ve been a great experience if it wasn’t for the lack of carefulness in workmanship. We pointed all of this and we were simply told it was part of the process and it was what it was, but they “want to make you happy!” We got our windows replaced, and many other things got fixed. Kudos to our construction manager for that. If you are buying from any production builder, USE a realtor! The main things I got from dealing with K.Hov are the following: 1. Build it fast, don’t worry about cosmetics; 2. Build it good enough to pass inspections, don’t worry about cosmetics; 3. Selling to client that visits at home site can happen at any time as long as not interfering with subcontractors and in the presence of K.Hov representative. At times it would take up to a week to get a reply, meanwhile construction is moving forward and client doesn’t get to have a chance to inspect the home; 4. Client is not allowed to receive the house plans, so client has no way to know if everything was built according to the plan; my front patio is off centered by 3 inches. I’m wonder what the plan shows....; 5. Client is being promised house is being inspected on daily basis. Possibly True, but what is being inspected is that the construction process is moving forward in accordance to schedule. Quality inspection, if done, is insufficient, that explains why client finds so many defects; 6. I believe the GKO gives 2 hours time frame to rush client through the whole house. Any house inspector can tell you 2 hours is not enough time to do a proper inspection. I wonder if that’s done intentionally so client doesn’t have enough time to finds defects......; 7. Closing day is scheduled to happen a week after the GKO. Knowing the amount of things that needed to be fixed we knew a week was not going to be enough time to take care of everything,and that’s exactly what happened. We met at closing and the house still had many things that were not taken care of. We were asked if we believed the house was substantially finished and if we could sign off the remaining papers. It that how K. Hov sells homes? I would think the correct way to sell a house is to have everything repaired, including cosmetics, before closing; 8. Now that closing has happened, and I have the keys, I’ve had the unpleasant inconvenience to take time off from work several times to make myself available to let K. Hov subcontractors come in the house to fix things that were noticed before and after closing, for example hot water running into a toilet, kitchen cabinets were not installed according to kitchen design plan, crack in master bedroom ceiling, etc In my opinion we could have avoided all these problems if K.Hov put more effort in quality control and didn’t mind spending some extra cash by hiring extra personnel helping to oversee the construction process, use better workmanship and higher grade material. I had one main request from the beginning: take your time when building my house, so you build it right. Nobody cares, everyone is in a hurry to get the job done and move to the next one, and the client suffers the consequences. I praise the hard work the construction manager, interior designer and sales representative put in, not K.Hov culture. ... More

Our home had a great construction manager that kept us informed and apprised of the different phases of construction. Plus construction was done a week early than originally told. Everything went smooth

Very happy with the ease of the entire process.

I love my new home in Cornerstone Farms. I am especially thankful for Keith Obran who is the project manager. I had many questions along the way during the construction process and he was extremely attentive and handled all of my questions and any issues that I had of concern. Keith made my building experience an incredibly happy one.

Overall, we are satisfied with our new house. However, I feel that our concerns were not heard throughout the building process. Once our house was complete, there were multiple issues that still have not been fixed because we were passed on to the service department. It feels that as soon as we signed the final documents, the customer service went away.

Friendly and responsive staff from sale and mortgage company, to on site staff to address any issues.

Everything was smooth from start to finish

I’ve had a great experience with KHov since the buying process and months after closing. They’ve been helpful and prompt in addressing minor issues I’ve experienced. I highly recommend KHov.

Love my home

The house is very well built!

So the staff determined that my first review had to be redone because I named directly who was the problem. Well how else can you fix the problem if you can’t identify it? Let’s just say we are extremely happy with the house, but completely unhappy with the loan process. The financing process. The unnecessary stress process from there person handling the finances. I hope this is better and complies with your restrictions.

Very happy with my new home.

To ask for what they want and you all will try and make it happen

Do not ask me to do this again. There is nothing inappropriate in my review. You don't want to put it on website because of the horrible experience we have endured. No one has contacted us to see what went wrong and there is a lot!!