Shea Homes-Trilogy Reviews in Phoenix Mesa, AZ

My sales girl was my saving grace. She helped me with the many questions I had. Moving from another state, being homeless for nine months while my home was being built and traveling with three cats and a dog, across the USA, to stay with friends and relatives, during Covid wasn't easy. D. C. was so wonderful to answer all my questions often, and always within 24 hours.

This is the second Shea home we’ve built. We’ve always been pleased with the quality of the finished product, as well as Shea’s service both before and after the sale.

Sales was extraordinary making it possible to relocate from VA. Would have been impossible without Margie’s help. Mortgage lending was extremely supportive and innovative. Found a very creative mortgage that was ideal for us! Field mgr was awesome. Jason was a 12 on a 1-10 scale. I’ve built 6 new homes, Jason was by far the best. TLB landscaping is outstanding! Both price and quality exceeded our expectations. Highly recommend to our neighbors!! Very happy with workmanship. Attention to details immaculate. Design outstanding. My only negative feedback is timing? But the house and community were worth the wait. No regrets. ... More

We really liked that Shea had the different stage reviews, in the building process. Especially showing us the walls before closing with sheet rock. This helped in making decision's of where to place things on the walls. It would have been nice, if during the building process, we could have added solar and or if that had been an option. Especially here in Arizona. Otherwise, everything was great. And the superintendent Alexis was GREAT to work with.

Enjoyed working with the Shea team. It wasn't perfect but they all worked together to provide a great new home for us .

Special call out to the sales team, Liz and Laura- and our project manager Brian and warranty coordinator Lala off to a good start. Overall build is good, its definitely not custom, but we new that going into the build. The day we took possession, the painter a few hours before we arrived, dripped white paint all over the floor- and left the doors open in 119 degree heat, creating a massive amount of insects inside the home that took a month to get rid of them- that was definitely frustrating . Problem with original design center team, but Shea Homes stepped up and did the right thing eventually, but at the time, that was very disappointing that we had to go through that experience, what should have been an awesome time at the design center, we left feeling insulted and really frustrated. The community is beautiful, thoughtfully designed and well maintained by the HOA ... More

All Shea employees are great to work with

The positives. Shea builds a good home, and their staff is friendly and largely helpful. Issues encountered along the way in construction and close inspection were addressed timely. My issues have mostly been around post close items. The landscaper (TLB) didn’t follow up per 30 day. It took repeated outreaches to get them scheduled to resolve issues, and they’re still not fully addressed, and communication is very poor. Overall, I’d recommend others to Shea, but Shea should utilize their leverage with TLB to ensure the full experience is positive.

First, the good. We love our new home. We love the community as well. From Jason (Sales) to Laura (Design), to Neil (construction) and then Connie (warranty and walk through) we could not be more pleased and thankful for their care, response time, excellent skills and assistance! They all get 5 stars!! Now, the not so good. The landscaping came up short, way short. From having a hard time with initial quote (getting answers on how the fence pricing would work, etc.) and then having it be last step in the design process and be hit with huge price increase from initial estimated quote! The fence continued to be troubling as we neared close as no one communicated to us that our to be neighbors required pool fencing on both sides of us. We paid for our entire fence (which was optional for us) & having been given no opportunity to work with our neighbors, we almost lost square footage to our property. We were told, after we inquired why fence on side of our property was 6 inches closer to our home than the neighbor’s, that since we did not sign off on anything, they automatically placed fence 4 inches (albeit it was 6) towards our home. We were able to get it fixed…but it required a lot of emailing and phone calls, us being the driver. We do appreciate Omar (landscaper-labor) for his quick work and kind attitude. To add insult to injury on the fence, we were contacted 2 months after we closed and moved in, by TLB Office (Tara), informing us that they reviewed our paperwork and found in original quote and signed off price at design (where our fence price had gone from original estimate of $3k or less to $4400) had somehow not included the fence line across back of yard!! They wanted another $2800 from us! However, all our paperwork stated the fence was a full yard fence and we presented the copies we signed off on and they determined it to be error on those we worked with in beginning of process, (Carson/Hunter) , they “waived” the charge and hoped we enjoyed our fence over the 4th of July! Another item that we are still dealing with, and are concerned over, is our “whole home” water filtration system. Bottom line is this, they installed a different type than we understood we were to have. We were not aware this occurred until closing. We had to inquire several times for information on the system and still are not clear on how to maintain it. On an up note? Our water quality is awesome! And we require no salt with this system, and have no loud flushing sounds in wee hours of the morning, plus, we do not need to buy filters for fridge because water is filtered as it enters home. We just felt the change to different system was one we should have been informed of and certainly been given better info on maintenance, I mean, this is our WATER we are dealing with. I’ll end on the upnote I began with, we love our home, and the community. Had it not been for the issues addressed here, they would have been given 5 stars across board. We have been through building process 3 times before this, and none of those journey’s had Covid and supply chain issues…kudos to Shea on that point, as they did everything they could to stay on time with close est. we appreciate them. ... More

It is obvious Shea has been around, as a developer, for many years. Not only is the community plan laid out nicely, but the floor plans of each individual model make sense and function very well.

This was my first new build and Shea was great! They provided detailed, informative answers to all of my questions. Very responsive.

The Superintendent was willing to listen and address issues, even making minor changes requested. The design center experience was a bit of an issue as a few items were missed. Later corrected.

Great first impression. Model selection is great. Design experience ok, did not like Builder's choice to add a pool. In fact, this was the most disappointing part of the entire experience. Otherwise, I enjoy the neighborhood and my home.

From the time I purchased the home to the time I moved in, every time I wanted to see the progress of the build, Alan found a few minutes to walk me through the house, and explained what was going on and what the time table was. He was busy and did not have to be so kind.

From our salesman Owen, to our foreman Alan, both were available to hear our questions or concerns, great people to work with.

Home was very well built and products supplied were of good quality. We we delayed by over 2 weeks which caused us problems with rental housing and extra storage costs for our furniture

Inside has minor issues. Landscaping & trash enclosure have issues that haven’t been completed.

We love our new home.

Lovely community, houses, and landscaping are as expected in a retirement area.

Throughout the buying and building experience I was kept informed of progress and given realistic deadlines. Most of my issues have been with the appliances. In general the fit and finish are very good.

Not pleased with the quality of the finishes and appliances at this price point

Shea builds a beautiful home with thoughtful layouts. Let me start with Kara. She was incredible to work with throughout the process. She always went above and beyond for us and helped us during the difficult emotional times of building a home. She is the gold standard for representing Shea Homes!!! Scott was out Field Manager. Like Kara, Scott was a G-d send. He was extremely communicative throughout the build. He always took our calls and responded to our texts. No ask was unimportant to Scott. If it was important to us, he looked into it and responded quickly. Scott had zero black holes. I never had to remind him a second time about anything throughout the 12 month build. His attention to detail was incredible. He would notice various things (ie tile not level, master bath accent tile appearance, and so many other details),that quite honestly, we may have missed, and he would proactively get them corrected until it met his high standards of workmanship. He always explained every detail of the house build so that we understood why certain aspects of the home are built the way they are (ie the attic insulation methodology). As I mentioned, no ask was too much for Scott. We had heard horror stories about other Site Directors which made us feel so incredibly fortunate to have Scott on our home. Like Kara, Scott is the Gold Standard and represents the Shea product to its highest level!!! We are also very thankful to have Steve as our Post-Close Warranty Specialist. Like Kara and Scott, Steve responds very quickly to anything we have and no ask is too big for Steve to handle. We look forward to working with Steve throughout our first year. Design was a total mess!!! The selection offerings were not up to par with the cost of the home and the designer we were assigned to had no idea of what options were truly available and made minimal suggestions. She also struggled immensely with using the design system and selection tools. She made numerous mistakes, that we had to fix after the close, that cost us over $10,000! She even got downright rude at times. The entire design process is extremely rushed and high pressure. They need to completely revamp their Design portion of the build. As a side note, I rated responsiveness to issues a 3 because of the design process not the warranty service. I would actually rate the Design responsiveness a 1 and the Sales, Construction and Warranty responsiveness a 5. Shea Homes did not seem to care, or be willing to assume any responsibility for what happened during design. Our designer was fired, but that does not help us in any way. ... More

Turnover of staff / reduction of staff and lack of communications is reason for 4 stars. Build process takes too long.

We closed and moved into our new home in April and have been pleased with the warranty follow up, general quality of the workmanship and the responsiveness of the entire sales and service team at Shea homes in Wickenburg.

Great care and responsiveness to questions