KB Home Reviews

Complete disregard and lack of expected quality craftsmanship for a $550K home. Lots of cutting corners to push towards a short-deadline closing. Lots of pressure put on building superintendents and managers to close the books on several homes at the same time. First night in the house the thermostat went bonkers and started the A/C when it was 19 degrees outside. Brand new whirlpool oven didn't work for nearly two weeks. Rather than bring us a new one like we had asked they deferred us to their home warranty department. Well over 20 items still awaiting fixes and or repairs after being in the home for almost two months now. We are very concerned about the long-term probability of greater unseen (aka under-the-skin/below the surface issues and concerns arising from the obvious poor craftsmanship and rush to close. Easy to put some of the blame on us the buyers for accepting after the final inspection, but not something taken lightly when you've been living in a hotel and air BnB for a month while getting promise after promise by the builder that everything's going to be taken care of to 100 percent of your satisfaction, and that your home will as good as or better build quality than their best model home. Yes, that's precisely what we were told on several occasions. Couldn't have been farther from the truth. In hindsight I never should have accepted/signed or gone to closing, but instead played hardball and insisted on them refunding me my $10K earnest money and took my business elsewhere. My only concern with this thought is that I think the lack of quality craftsmanship in the new homes being built in this area is more wide-spread than I can imagine. I wonder who's really passing the various inspections of these homes at the city level? Lastly, our poor neighbors. We consider ourselves fortunate the we are not having to deal with the plethora/myriad of issues they're having to deal with as I speak. These poor folks have been having no-kidding deplorable and unimaginable issues. To the point where they are about to go after them with a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for their time or the full refund/buy back of their homes. It's really unacceptable how KB Home has treated these retired folks who have worked hard their entire lives only to have to deal with this kind of stuff. ... More

Throughout the process I have been let down by Kb homes every step of the way. If I was to do it all over I would not purchase a home with KB.

Ceiling waves, outlet edges are rough not smooth borders crack nail pops

1st house was an amazing experience that when we moved we decided to go with KB again. Bigger and more expensive. I wished we looked somewhere else because theres cracks everywhere. Water comes thru our door. Paint still on our carpet and floor. It has been a bad experience since day 1. From loan process to moving into home.

Workmanship not up to par, shoddy finish.

Walls are not straight water got under my home my bathroom is jacked up cracks in my ceiling something about the drywall you can here people using the bathroom you just have no privacy in the home the room on north side is just nuts when someone uses the microwave or bathroom I have real questions with the quality of the material I can get a nail and push it into the drywall no hammer needed my windows have damage and nobody seems to give a

The value for the price we paid for our new home is okay, despite the continued issues before after move in. However, the communication and service from the construction team and lender were very disappointing. I would highly recommend that future homebuyers stay far far away from KB.

Asked to resubmit my first review bc “doesn’t meet website guidelines “ ... laughable smh... Here’s a summary: Nice staff/responsiveness... 4 stars Value for price .... 3 stars Trustworthiness... 1 star.. lost trust from the very beginning to the end. A pure nightmare Quality... 1 star .. never moved into a new home that was presented new ... (sloppy, debts, splatters, wires etc)

Here's my experience, I never had a issue with the contractors. They were probably the shinning star of this company. Everything we talked to them about was done promptly and handled accordingly. We had issues come up with framing and they were promptly handled with the proper care I would expect from a company bidding for my business. The design studio gets a A+ also. I forget the name of the woman who helped us, but she was also a rockstar. She helped us explaining the cost differences and what to expect down the road. Now the face of the company was horrible and will make me never buy from this company again. Becky was rude at times, short and was never very sympathetic for issues that came up. Some of the issues: I had questions about the contract and she talked over me instead of discussing it with me, we had issues with our first Lender and had to start the whole process over again, Becky continued to hound my wife and I about our lender, eventually cc'ing us in a very rude and unprofessional email, which was sent to our lender. This letter was so rude my lender vowed that his company will never work with KB Homes again. At the very end of it Becky threatened us with our lender, saying that if our lender couldn't come up with a loan agreement that our contract would be voided out, unless we went with KB Homes lenders. When it came down to my family doing our final walkthrough, my wife and I had scheduled a trip to Texas for my work conference. We made it very well known in the beginning to middle of the project these dates were a no go for us to close due to that (my wife had paid 600ish for the conference and plus plane tickets, rental cars, hotel rooms etc.). Becky insisted that we need to be there on this date which was a few days before we were due back, couldn't even work with us about pushing it out a few days. After numerous days of arguing about it Becky, asked us to have our father-in-law who just had a heart attack (which Becky knew), who couldn't even drive and was not mentally capable at that moment (due to his health) to come to get the keys and do the final walkthrough. After a long time arguing, complete frustration, and Hopelessness that this would never get resolved we finally were able to get our date pushed out. I am beyond frustrated with the whole process besides the three (1 design studio, 2 contractors) people I spoke about above. As for the pricing, I have remodeled my home before and I have a good idea how much labor and materials cost. You guys would of raked me over the coals, with flooring if I had not done the flooring in my old home.. The up charge on the materials alone made me reconsider adding anything extra through you guys. It would of been nice to have a home ready to move into at the end of the process instead of having to do construction for the first two weeks of living there. I much rather have the thousands of dollars in my pocket that were the difference in the prices quoted by you guys instead of the actual cost. The home Is beautiful and was well made. That's why I gave the for stars.... everything else would of been a 1 due to becky, except for the people I mentioned above. ... More

Before signing on the closing day there were several issues that were done at last minute like the grading on the left hand side in between houses. By now KB home had worked on this matter several times and stilll not resolve. Also, the were a crack on the ceiling by the dining room area that three different people have tried to fix. The biggest issue is the Grading in between the house. I keep being told that has to do with the city. I know it doesn’t has to do anything with the city. The last crew that was here broke the cable for spectrum and taped it together and didn’t say anything about it. I really like to have the grading done right. ... More

they did not respect the agreed initial price, they made me waste a lot of time

We did our first walk through and we found some things ( scratch tub, wire sticking out of stucco, roof tile missing nails, dead plants and some texture and painting issues). Also the superintendent showed up 30 min late. He said that he would add trim in the garage for being late. A week later was our closing date and it rain 2 days during that week. We had another walk through and the only thin was fixed was the paint and texture issues. He said the they can fix the issues while we are living their. I did not want to slow anything down so I said okay. It took them 2 weeks after I said something again to fix the issues the only thing they did was fixed the tub. Now almost 2 months later the super called me and ask how everything is doing. I told he that our plants still need to be replaced, fix the roof, stucco, 2 doors need fixed ( 1 does not latch and the other does not closed), we saw a hole in the bottom of the cabinet in the bathroom, and I put a new faucet in the kitchen and it looks like it had some water damage on the bottom shelf of the cabinet. He told me he would schedule me for the nexted friday and nobody called me and nobody showed. ... More

Everyone here is friendly and pleasant.. Terry has been responsive, and has tried to help. However some issues are still unresolved. Eric told me to wait 10 months and everything would get taken care of then. Joe came over and looked at te things that needed addressed and gave me an appointment over a month away.

Steve and Katrina were great. That’s did all the could to make things right. The builder are sloppy, missing paint, holes in door, A C went out 3 times. Door off hinges. I could go on and on. The sales team is awesome. Need hire better builder that cares.

I don't like that KB home works with so many companies to build 1 home. Quality is not good, Do to this theirs so many cracks and holes. When reporting issues to the superintendent all he does is send you to the customer service number?, which no one ever answers or returns phone calls.

I wasn't impressed with my sales rep. Buying a new house is a lot of money and I expected top customer service quality (took several days to get a response, did not meet deadlines). Lot of the upgrades are overpriced to the point where it's still cheaper to rip out KB installed finishings and install new ones after closing. Lot of the base finishings is very low quality and that's how they keep prices competitive but get you to pay more to upgrade to something more reasonable. After closing, our After Sales Customer Service representative was also very hard to get in touch with and ignores most of my emails asking for an update. KB subcontracts a lot of the final stages of work (carpet, counters, appliances, etc). In my experience, it was all sub-par (counter overhang turned out to be a underhang meaning the closed drawers extended past the counter edge, holes in shower wall slabs, missing door pins, missing dead bolt screws). I'm pretty easy going but my new KB home purchase left a lot to be desired. ... More

Having lot of post closing issues and those are not addressed properly. No point of having 1 month check in of everything has to go through the product warranty.

Bad quality. Bad painting so thin came off easily. Everything damage easy

The initial process with KB Loan Officers and builder was unprofessional; consistently lacking in communication. Neither the loan officers or builder were on the same page on status or updates. The overall construction was okay but responsiveness needs improvement.

Overall, very disappointed with our new home. Model homes look great, but the actual build on all the houses in our neighborhood are very poor quality. Cheap materials and even cheaper labor -- skill level of the contractors is abysmal. If you're looking for a quality home in the $325K+ range, look elsewhere.

So many issues to mention...

Sales person Arron was the only bright spot

Responsiveness to issues by the construction team was slow and unsatisfactory.

The interior paint job is extremely sloppy! There are already several cracks in the walls and chipped paint that was not caused from move

Several annoying issues such as wrong appliance installation, cracks in the driveway pavement, and hanging electrical wires that impede the closure of kitchen cabinet drawers.