K. Hovnanian® Homes Reviews in Houston, TX

Would love to have a more knowledgeable and helpful sales associate, with customer service skills on hand.

The houses are very beautiful but very bad customer service, after the closing of the house many details have appeared with the construction and the response to solve things is very slow, I would have preferred to choose another construction company

The builders, loan providers have lack in professionalism.

The sales agent does not know his product and does not stay in touch with his clients through the build process. The builder was responsive, however would make excuses as to why issues weren't taken care of. We are still dealing with an issue that was supposedly fixed after our walk through. It was a punch list item for the builder to resolve prior to closing and a month and a half later we are still dealing with the issue through the warranty department.

We have already had 4 issues with our ac unit , that STILL ISNT SOLVED and one problem with the plumbing. I understand some work is builders grade like paint, but for over $355K, I expected more from these basic systems.

Since the house sat unoccupied for a minute, the grass behind died. They replaced the back grass but didn't replace the grass infant and behind. House was fine but I moved in with horrible grass. Called and messaged the construction manager a couple of times after he promised to replace the side grass but hasn't. Even the front grass didn't look attractive at all. Now I am stuck with dead grass on the sides of my house and horrible grass in front. Sales guy was the best tho.

The sales team had little to no communication, all people involved were lazy and not willing to address issues in a timely manner if at all. No important details were communicated to the buyer

The contracted builder for this home was fantastic, however the mortgage side for this company is horrible. KHOV Mortgage forces buyers to use their own 3rd party resources. The company’s representatives do not respond or handle matters diligently. It is so hard and frustrating to get into contact with anyone in this company. Please do not use this company.

Use very cheap material to build house. The construction Rep on site will lie to you every time you want them to remediate on something. always have some excuse on what things are wrong.

I THINK THE HOME DESIGN NEEDS SOME "WORK". EXAMPLE -- THE FAUCETS IN BATHROOMS ARE TOO SMALL (they can't be easily cleaned because the handles are way to close to the faucets.) THE CLOSET SHELVES ARE WAY TOO HIGH (a "normal" height woman can't reach them without a step ladder.) THE DISPOSAL SWITCH SHOULD BE RELOCATED TO THE TOP OF COUNTER (currently it's under the kitchen sink...very awkward.) Sorry, This is the best review I can give you.

The sales rep was terrific, but the quality of workmanship in the home was very poor. Inside and out, there have been areas that needed repair. The Warranty group has been easy to deal with, just unexpected to have to deal with so many problems that were not seen during final walk through of home. Would I buy another home from this builder, NO!

A very sad experience don’t get me wrong the home is nice but, would not say very nice. They cut corners just about everywhere, from the last home I bought in Texas these people didn't throw in a lot of the upgrades that the other home did for the price you paid. There were issues from the start with almost all involved. You could not pick out anything due to COVID and this day and age, everything is either late or on a timeline and all depends on when they get items in for your house. The quality of workmanship was poor if any of these sub-contractors worked for me, they would be out of a job, there is no accountability whatsoever for anything that's done incorrectly or poorly. There aren’t very good communications between all parties at all I felt like I was running around in circles with trying to figure out who needed what and who wanted information they didn't talk to each other from the sales office to corporate. At one point a Carmen was very rude to me in an email, and I called her out on it. Then when I asked to be put in contact with her supervisor, which I had to go through the sales office lady just to get the name of her supervisor, or someone that I should contact about her rudeness. I got some by the name of Kimmie who tried to smooth things over but was just a rude as the person I was calling to complain about no one wanted me to talk to a higher up person, not even the sales lady Devra would share information about higher up's names or telephone numbers. It was like secret information that nobody wanted to put out. One of the funniest things that I found is when the home was going through the framing stage, I asked about sprinklers in the front yard the sales office lady told me it was too late for sprinklers, while they hadn't even broke ground on the landscaping so how could it have been too late to choose sprinklers for your front yard. For the initial walk-through we must've went through about two roles of blue tape that's how poor workmanship and quality was. Even though the construction manager was there every day she did a decent job but every time I brought up subcontractors, he just shook his head and said I know. He worked pretty hard on getting the first set of blue tape items completed, we still have quite a few on our cabinets need to be taken care of. Now thank goodness I had a home inspector general walk-through prior to me buying the house there was several things he found. A couple of big items were in the roof the flashing on a portion of the roof left a big gap that you could see inside the attic and from inside the attic outside. It seemed like nobody followed up and did their inspections like they should have when they were putting the roof on. It actually rained all the flashing was missing causing some of the water to get in the attic. Thank God I stayed persistent on them so they could get it fixed if I didn't it probably never would've gotten fixed. They have even painted our shutters on the outside of her home the wrong colors, if I went to said anything to the sales office, they probably would've left them the wrong color. I wonder if anybody was even looking at the plans when it came time to build in the home. They said they're going to fix them; we'll see how long that takes. I can go on and on about issues, from the dying grass, to how they laid the sod, and buried pieces of metal and debris underneath the lawn. There's so many to list it just would take forever. They want to nickel and dime you for everything heart of the gutter in the front yard leaks into the landscaping the landscapers should've booted up the drainpipes to fit the downspout so it will leak out they wanted to charge me $180 for a little piece of metal to divert the water into the gutter. Why should I have to pay hundred and $180 to fix their mistake. The heater didn't work in the house, and they can figure out why, I haven't had to use it yet, but they say it's been fixed will soon find out. I did actually have a leak in my garage, and it was running down the inside of the sheet rock again another piece of flashing that had not worked or that they missed. Now I'm waiting for them to come out and tear the wet sheet rock down and replace it in my garage. But to them it's not a rush job it's whenever they get around to it or the sheet rockers can be in the neighborhood. Even though the construction manager tries to communicate he still doesn't know when subcontractors is can be there to fix things, no accountability again his appointment should be made met and kept and they should be held accountable if they miss their appointment. If you're going to schedule something they need to be there. They should be delaying on getting wet sheet rock removed and new sheet rock up. Again, the construction manager did a good job of trying to get things done, he kept telling me that his pay depended on how I rated him, Nomo I think is really trying to get things done and do a professional job but is being held up by others involved. There was this person name Cary who when I first met thought would be a great person that would be helping with a lot of items, he was Nomo's boss, but I guess he failed also he's just as bad as the rest no accountability and not a very pushy person to wanting to get things done in a timely fashion. That's one thing that I noticed none of these people are a big hurry to get things done for you as a customer when you spend this much money on a home. Again, I feel that they cut corners just about everywhere. I'm sure within the year I'll find more issues, now I understand homes have issues, but it seemed like every time I turn around there's something else. I highly doubt it, but I hope that management reaches out to me, they need to hear about the people that are building their homes, selling their homes, and working with you as a customer to closure home. I'm sure somebody from higher up won't even get to read this review. do your research on them! ... More

Bad. never again, these guys are amateurs.

Zero craftsmanship, we have a big punch list of items that they haven’t fixed yet. their craftsmanship is really poor. they don’t reply to any of your emails. just a bad deal for your $$$

I would never again trust a KHOV home, the build quality is poor, the home is seeing so many issues, and in general the neighborhood consensus matches my issues.

Lot of issues with quality. 1) Water leakage within 4 days of house warming. 2) AC stopped working within 2 weeks. 3) Water stagnant on both Left and right sides of the home. 4) The response from the support and emergency teams is very bad. 5) Emergency team never answer the call. They call you after 2-3 days. 6) No response for emails too except the acknowledgement of the issue.

Would buy from another builder. Very poor quality on workmanship and materials. Had several issues with home and refused to properly fix. They try to hide all issues and rig up repairs. 1-issue of many I just fixed on my own was had to re-level front yard. There were huge humps and holes in front and back yard. Took 8-wheelbarrows of trash, concrete and debris underneath grass; which caused all the grass to die. Can not install grass on trash. Cost me an additional 1500.00 extra out of pocket right after moving in. They don not fix or want to fix anything. Also they will not install grass in the back yard. Overall will never ever buy another house from K-HOV or recommend to anyone I know. ... More

A nightmare everything was delayed and communication was mediocre

Cooperate is awful. The office was terrible with customer service.,, Construction Manager was all that was helpful through the entire process.

This is a great builder with great product for the price point Lots of value !!! I would recommend that you make sure you get a good sales person to help the homebuyer process go as smooth as possible. My salesperson did not do a good job of making my experience memorable .

The quality of the cabinets are not the best product. When I moved in the heat would not go past 66. I reported it and it took two requests and two days to rectify this issue. It was one of the coldest days in December. No apology or anything was given, however the young gentleman knew what the problem was and it was resolved within 30 minutes.

Everything was really bad,sales person had family emergency and really nobody was there to kinda cover even to give us the key of our 1st house. Youall change construction manager like 3 times and except for Gary (the las one) they didn't do nothing right. The day I was supposed to receive my brand new house was not finished and had buch of trash in the garage and back yard . I would never recomen or buy again from this constructor.

Home wasn’t signed off as completed until April 26th and we were set to close on the 28th. The lender needs a final appraisal which takes 1-2 weeks. They deemed K Hovnanian’s tactics unethical and went back on their assurance to cover the costs associated with delay of closing. I ended up being saddled with thousands of dollars of fees and paid after threats to relist the house. I see the fault on the side of all party’s except mine, yet I was the one saddled with undue financial burden. Before and since then the team was a pleasure to work with but experience really ruined my ability to talk well about the K Hovnanian organization ... More

The subcontractors are inferior. Obviously, the lowest bid is more important that the quality of their product. The painters, trim carpenters and cabinet installers are the worst I have ever seen. The house was filthy when we took possession. It is sad because they have nice designs but, until they hire better tradesmen they will never be a even a mid-range builder.

The title company is worthless. Made my home buying experience horrible. I hope I never have to deal with them again.