Richmond American Homes Reviews

Horrible from start to finish! Everything was wrong and communication was poor never will I ever buy or recommend a Richmond American home.

Ongoing major problems with plumbing, construction and final finish. Sales was not a good experience.

Please due your due diligence! They lie and are deceitful, they will not do any repairs that they schedule. The financing is a total SCAM and I am filing consumer protection complaint with the attorney general.

I won’t recommend Richmond builder to anybody. You can call me for more Datails. Very, very upset and SAD !! My dream is a nightmare!!!

I wouldn’t recommend buying a house with Richmond American. This has been the worst experience ever to buy a house. There was absolutely no verbal communication from finance at all. Every time I called no one answered the phone. They would barely communicate through email. I feel that they did not walk us through the process and nothing was explained. When I threatened to pull out of deal the communication was worse. Nothing was thoroughly explained from the beginning to the end. I had to come out of more money at day of closing because it wasn’t explained to me. The title company explained more to me than anyone in Richmond American. Allot of walk thru items are still not corrected and the quality of the build is very cheap compared to what was paid for the house. I would not recommend anyone buying from Richmond American. ... More

I had an extremely disappointing experience working with Richmond Homes. While exploring a new development in Winchester, Virginia to be closer to family, we were initially drawn to Richmond Homes due to a lower discounted interest rate offered through a preferred lender and what seemed like a decent price for the home, along with a $10,000 closing incentive. Despite flying out from California to check out the property, we encountered numerous issues throughout the home, which we flagged with blue tape during our walkthrough. As we progressed towards closing, just two weeks before the scheduled date, we were informed by the lender that our home would be considered a secondary property, resulting in a significantly higher 9% interest rate due to the value of our California home and other properties we owned. Even though we had rented out our previous home and had all necessary arrangements in place, Richmond Homes refused to honor the initially promised 5% interest rate. In a scramble, we managed to secure another lender who could close on time, but this switch meant losing the closing incentive and lower interest rate. By the day before closing, we noticed that many of the issues we had flagged with blue tape remained unresolved, with over 50% of the work incomplete. To add to our frustration, the builder claimed we were outside the 30-day warranty period for addressing these issues, despite them being raised during our walkthrough. Our attempts to communicate with Richmond Homes, including the floor man, have been met with silence – phone calls and emails have gone unanswered, with no response to multiple attempts to reach out. Overall, our experience with Richmond Homes has been deeply disappointing, and we feel let down by their lack of transparency, communication, and follow-through. ... More

They need to communicate better and figure out how take care of issues on rollover items from the walkthrough inspections.

Horrible service. They don’t help they never reply just really really bad

There's is nothing to highlight! From start to finish, I hard a terrible experience. From sales person, gallery appointment and superintendent. I've been in my home now 6 weeks and still waiting for things to be completed from my initial walk through. I was pressured the entire process bullied, treated unfair and not at all with any type of compassion or even a customer. I was nothing but another house to close before the end of the quarter. You people run other stock market, so close on as many houses as possible. You need to start working on QUALITY over quantity!!! I paid over $350 000 for a house, I shouldn't have any holes in my walls, walls missing paint, cracks in my foundation, tile grout missing and the list continues. Terrible craftsmanship. ... More

It was a nightmare ,very bad no good terrible experience.

Everything about this experience has been bad. When we initially signed the paperwork we purchased sight-unseen. We liked the area and the floor plan so we ignored all of the terrible reviews of the builder online. Well, the bad reviews are well-deserved. We were initially told the home would be completed in January. We closed in March. I understand delays, of course, so I can forgive two months, considering weather delays this was not bad, in my opinion. What I find to be a real issue is that we hired a third party inspector and it was impossible for him to inspect the whole house. Things were not even close to finished. This was one week before closing. And, after asking multiple times if we were sure we would be able to close on time it wasn't until less than 24 hours before we were supposed to close that we received a TEXT MESSAGE from the super's assistant to tell us we would not be closing the next day. We finally got the certificate of occupancy and closed late, but nothing that was on our punch list from the walk-through was completed. And we found multiple other issues in the days that followed, with no response from anyone. About 3 weeks after moving in we asked when someone would call us to schedule the 30 day walkthrough. We did get a response, but no one actually showed up. It wasn't until we went to corporate that we finally got the name of the boss to call to get scheduled. We've now confirmed the 30 day walkthrough where we hope to go through our laundry list of items that were not completed before close. We will see if anyone shows up this time. Given the fact that we haven't found a single neighbor in the whole neighborhood that has had their issues resolved I do not have high hopes. And after all of this, not a single apology or offer to fix anything. Instead, it's excuse after excuse as to why things aren't done (if you can get ahold of anyone, that is). In my opinion, this neighborhood needs to stop expansion until the houses that have already sold are completed. Obviously they are more concerned with selling as many homes as possible as quickly as possible and less concerned with their reputation or our home values. ... More

It been a month since purchase new house and. Still waiting for repairs Bad service no calls no confirmation when can have done

The sales agent is excellent, but unfortunately, the home is poorly built with numerous issues. Moreover, I discovered that the construction of the home did not adhere to building department codes. During the walkthrough, they may attempt to deceive you to cover their mistakes. So when the issue happens, they will not be responsible. I will be filing to the contractor board

Moses, Tyler, Matthew are all horrible and very unprofessional. Richmond American Homes will lie to you and do anything to get your business and once they have it, they treat you very horribly and unprofessionally. I will be telling all friends and family to stay away from Richmond American Homes.

Terrible experience not happy with home still waiting for several items to be fixed.

Bad and cheap materials

The experience was the worst

Poor house quality from floor to ceiling. We were assured of the 1st 30-day warranty to fix chips, cracks, paints, etc but nobody answered us after multiple email, calls and text messages. Very unprofessional people!! Never again with this builder!

Hi Team I am getting too bad experience and build quality and workmanship , Even what we found in final orientation check list not fulfil so far , we followed up many times , no response , still items are pending activates from last orientation I have raised the warranty requests regarding floor defects , doors repair and windows glass replacement , no response still .Even if we asking sales office , they are always telling we do not know , even they did not give the information whom to escalate . From last orientation , They said last presser wash pending we will do it before we move ,but they did not do anything , so disgusting , the floor is completely ,messy . ... More

I purchased my first home in Dec 2023. There were pending things to get fixed at the last walkthrough; however, as of today's date, we continue waiting for the builder to complete this. No one has contacted me to follow up but only after me reaching out. It has been a very disappointing experience. We bought this home with a lot of time and effort. Staff responsiveness and attention to this matter has been very poor.

I wish I would bought somewhere else

DO NOT BUY!!! Waste of money! Do not get your money’s worth

I am extremely disappointed in Richmond American homes. The process started out well. My agent that handled the initial sale and my design consultant Taffie did a good job. However, once construction began and throughout the construction of my new home, I have been extremely dissatisfied with the communication regarding the process and the workmanship that went into my new home. I closed my sale on January 16th, 2024 and there are still unfinished items that I have paid for and yet to have completed. I have not heard a single word from anyone at Richmond American about these issues. I have significant problems in my home that will never be fixed. This situation is true for many of my neighbors as well and we are discussing the possibility of litigation at this point in order to enforce our rights. I would strongly recommend against anyone buying a Richmond American home until the company fixes its communications problems and hires better contractors that complete the work at an acceptable level. I could not be more dissatisfied with Richmond American Homes. ... More

This was the worst experience of my life. I would never buy from Richmond American Homes again, once you close and pay that’s it your pretty much on your own. The amount of shortcuts they used is unbelievable, we are selling our home and OK with taking a hit the experience has been that bad. No follow up from the Executive Management.

Cheap materials all around the home unfinished floors broken cabinets , leaking faucets multiple issues these are just a few to list horrible experience during walkthru they say they will fix after closing but no remediation for the issues identified have to follow up multiple times with the rep to get something resolved sucha a pain to go thru all this for a brand new home simply would say do not buy !!