Shea Homes-Trilogy Reviews

Great people and company. My impression is everyone is too stretched. Responsiveness and detail support could be better. At least in the community I am in, Trilogy Rio Verde

Quality of work could've been a bit better. The interior paint seemed to be very cheap. Need more pickle ball courts and tennis courts as the community continues to grow

We love the community and the people. We love our house.

Will has been a delight to work with!

Shea is a great home builder! Andrew, our warranty specialist, is great to work with!

Staff was very friendly, but sometimes did not come through with requests. East to contact but not always responsive. If I needed an immediate response I had to go through my sales person even though I was told by project manage I could contact him.

First, I would like to focus on the positive aspects of our experience. There are three people who have contributed to making this experience a success. They are Ryan, Kara and Lala. Each has contributed in their own way to help promote a collaborative effort to realize the completion of our home. Our first contact with Shea was Kara. From the start, she was professional, personable and had a great sense of humor. She was tolerant of our many questions, requests and complaints. Her graceful approach helped smooth things out that led to the creation of our home and hopefully a continued relationship. Ryan was with us the most. His generosity and gentle demeanor walked us through the different stages of the building process. He was challenged on many occasions by some of the vendors and then had to work with us to explain why things were not going as planned. There were challenging times, but he stuck with us, much to his credit. Lastly, LaLa has provided us with the follow up of warranty work, questions on how things work or don’t and kindness and humor when dealing with vendors who don’t show up for a service call. LaLa, like Ryan, goes above and beyond to provide us with the information and help we have needed to get this house off to a good start. On more than one occasion, she has made time for us outside of her schedule to help us. She is always positive and a delight to be with. There were a few issues that I would like to bring to your attention. During our buying and building experience, design changes were made but not communicated to us until after the fact. This required time and effort to develop a new design plan and to resolve ourselves that what we thought we could have was not possible. The other change that I would request is that you give your team the authority to make decisions based on their expertise and experience. For example, we have a scratch in one of our windows. An appointment was made for the vendor to address this. We waited an entire day for this gentleman to come out and say “Yes, it’s scratched and should be replaced “. This is a huge waste of our time to sit at home the entire day only to have the vendor confirm what Lala had already determined as a defect. It would save time and money and frustration for your homeowners not to have to go through an inefficient process such as this. Without the help, kindness and support of Kara, Ryan and Lala I would not have bought or continued with building this home. ... More

I appreciated the weekly email updates.

Let me start by saying that my wife and I love the area, neighbors, and the model home we selected. We also appreciate many of the Shea associates who helped us along the new home journey. With that being said, unfortunately in my opinion the quality that was touted prior to building has left us very disappointed especially for the amount of money you are spending to purchase your new home. We understand that with a new home there will be some issues along the way, but we have had our fair share of challenges which has taken away the excitement of enjoying our new home. To Shea’s credit, the staff and workers have been very responsive to our needs in trying to make things right. I sincerely believe that with so many new homes under construction each with their own time frames, quality is definitely suffering. So, would I recommend Shea homes, time will tell. To early to make that recommendation. ... More

A delightful home in a delightful community. Just some issues around service items being properly attended to in a timely manner…

The construction of the home was very smooth. The home is beautiful.

The home is lovely. Some tweaks, of course. But while they were building, we were buying furnishings and getting ready to fill the house appropriately. Since there was no model of the Liberty design here, we relied on the floor plan and virtual tours of Liberty’s online. The dining light was 8 ft. From the wall. But here it was hung 5 ft. From the wall, contrary to the videos and tours. They said it was according to the plans. Apparently Shea advertises one thing and delivers something different. In this case, a dining chandelier that is in the wrong place. They refuse to admit the impracticality of the placement, claiming the blueprints were followed. We feel strongly that because every virtual tour of the Liberty shows it 8 feet from the wall should mean they should have to move our Liberty chandelier to 8 feet from the wall. They admit it is not in a usable spot, but say the blueprints were followed. Then CHANGE THE BLUEPRINTS...and move our chandelier to where it should be! ... More

Don’t use Shea mortgage! And upgrade options are very overpriced. Things that can be done later, such as landscaping, are better to do on your own.

Our positive part of this experience has been with the sales team, especially Anjuli and the building manager, Ryan. The negative portion of the experience is simply the quality of home and craftsmanship which is subpar. This is from framing and exterior wall studs between 16" to 24". Closer to 24" than 16", but never uniform. The backplash tile was redone, cabinets not level, mud on can lights, painting trim redone, exterior painting redone, very cheap linoleum that tore quite easily in the laundry room, an air bubble in the LVP, the island counter was not square and the dining room wall was not square. Shea has fixed nearly all of the defects. We have had to spend lots of additional money to fix shortcomings and just make the home look like it has a higher quality to it. ... More

Stucco not cured properly on sunny side of house. Lots of cracking in the finish. Integral dark color finish installed. Where patches have been made, the color varies and photographs issues. Color missing in some locations. Stone veneer is sloped. Drywall nail heads are visible with some heads popping through. Tape joints are exposed. Cornerbead flanges are visible. 1/2" wide tiles installed from a 12x24 tile. Instead of recutting a larger tile to fit the space, a sliver was cut to make up the incorrectly cut tile. Sales team was great. Designer was extremely helpful. Superintendent finished the house on time. Expected more from a Shea home. ... More

The trades should adopt the saying “Do it right the first time”

Kirstie kept us informed during the building process of the delays we were incurring. We have been in the house two months and expected some snags in the new house. The response to correcting these snags has been mediocre in the sense of timeliness, the initiative on the part of the builder, and the accuracy of the corrective action. For example, a 220 Volt outlet was ordered in one specific part of the house. An additional outlet was actually wired to 220 V unbeknownst to us. We ruined several appliances in the troubleshooting process not to mention a potentially hazardous situation. The staff has been helpful but I can only assume they are overloaded with work to be done/corrected. Thermostat was also somehow miswired causing it to NOT shut off the Air Conditioner. It was apparent that finishing touches were rushed to make the 30 Sept closing deadline (delayed from original 30 April closing) to include no water softener installed yet, poorly finished landscaping of the yard, missing door hardware, and some smaller items. Still awaiting several snags to be fixed, corrected, replaced, or rectified after what has seemed a reasonable amount of time. ... More

Our home is still missing items. Other homes around us that are being completed have the items we are missing, yet we are constantly being told that we have to wait due to shortages. Do not accept your home if not 100% complete or you will be treated like a second rate human when it comes to getting the home completed as promised. We were so excited to buy our new home and especially it being a Shea Home, but have been treated like second rate humans after receiving our home. Each time we inquire about items that are supposed to be completed or replaced, we are told there are still back orders and we have to wait....except all the homes being built around us are getting the items. One would think that a company would take care of the people who trusted in them to keep their word. Sadly disappointed in our experience with Shea homes up to this point. ... More

Office staff is nice and friendly.

Love the community and the house. Wish that they had done a better job in inspecting and cleaning the house before delivery. It would have been a better representation of the quality of the builder and less follow up for me and my wife.

Love floorplan but this builder needs to hire better quality inspectors. Way too many things wrong. Plus the response time for corrections is very slow.

It was as expected for a new build

Hard to communicate with builder ….only text messages his phone mailbox always full. I understand delays but communication important! He was better toward end of construction _ mind you a year and half! I had one month appointment and still two issues not resolved? I’ve called twice - no call back? It’s been a month - I’ll have these two issues on the 5 month appointment- a few other things are needing attention as well! I get new homes always have issues - usually simple but would be nice for at least a call back.

Issues after delivery take too long to get resolved. We have 2 broken windows that were supposedly ordered before the house was finished. Been in house now 2 months, still have broken windows. Other issues same problem. Not responsive at all.

Poor workmanship. Many things were rushed, and it shows.