Our Heartland Homes review starts 3
months after our new home closing February 2004, all the way up to
2010. We live in a Heartland Homes community Castleview Estates
Kennedy Township.
click image above to view some photos from 2004
and 2005 of our brand new first owner Heartland Homes home.
Always remember - click on ANY Photo, ANY
picture to view a larger more detailed image.
NOTE: This website we promise to continue to work on until it
is complete! Complete details, tons additional photos and a lot more
information. We also want to make our custom home site here Apple
iPad friendlier as well.
The biggest investment OF YOUR LIFE welcome to our Heartland
Homes home. To us, as home owners of a newly constructed home we
closed on February 2004, we still find it difficult to wrap our
minds around our entire new home experience. We have well over 1,000
digital pictures, tons of emails and complete documentation to
validate everything we have posted. Believe it or not, we
even went as far as chiseling brick from the front of our home
towards the end of our Heartland Homes lawsuit, our Heartland Homes
trial ended in early 2009. See the photo below of our home in our
Heartland Homes community showing we did hand chisel brick from the
front of our custom home. We are not in home construction, however
click to view the photo below and what would be your opinion?
two photos above, click to view very large
images showing what we discovered when we hand chiseled
the bricks from the front of our Heartland home. Left photo is the
end window front of our home, right photo shows brick removed from
the bottom of our front door we removed. Where our electrical panel
is located in photos below is almost directly under our front door
area.
Click on photo below. Our home is 3 months old, our Pittsburgh home
builder Heartland Homes.
Heartland Homes was notified every time we had
water problems in our new home.
See emails below and right column for every email, including
responses from our custom home builder.
Pittsburgh custom home builder and our 4 month old new home
our 4 month old brand new home.
Heartland Homes our custom home builder and my Pittsburgh home.jpg
our 5 month old new home, closed February 2004.
Notified Heartland warranty department May 2004 and every time
after.
See Heartland Homes email right column.
In our opinion and our photos should validate;
we've had water problems since 3 months after closing on our
brand new home
that continue.
Our Heartland custom home builder tells us that our
Wet Basement remedy will begin, email dated July 2004 and We
will Continue to Work Towards A Solution, email dated January 2005
(see emails below), yet in our opinion we never see that
solution. The reason we hand chisel brick from the front of
our home is to see if we can see what is behind our brick.
Here is what our Heartland Homes home looks like today in 2010. Not
sure when we will move and put our Heartland Homes for sale.
two different photos of our home. Please click
to view larger images and details.
Over 5+ years of what we consider water problems with a brand new
home, there has to be a reason, right? Even during the Heartland
Homes complaint we filed with the BBB (Better Business Bureau),
Heartland Homes makes a few attempts to correct the water coming
into our foundation, see photos under our 2005 and 2006 timeline
section of photos further below. We continue to have water problems
as you should be able to see when you review our timeline photos
further below in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 minimally.
Click to view photos of our home 6 months old.
We paid a certified Structural Engineer to come to our home to
explain to us, in his professional opinion and experience what the
problem could potentially be. We even have documentation from our
custom home builder Heartland Homes, for the Andersen Windows we
have installed regarding Window Flashing. To read more about this
please see section further below Titled Behind our Brick Veneer
and Vinyl Siding.
our Heartland Homes custom home details.
The condensed version is we won the verdict in our lawsuit.
Heartland Homes appealed the monies portion of our $11,700 verdict.
Having photos to document and prove we've had water problems since 3
months after closing on our home and already spending over $24,000
of our monies, why bother going any further, we filed a
discontinuance. Which simply means we still won the verdict in our
lawsuit, however we walk away with absolutely nothing, period. To
read more about this please see section further below Titled
Behind our Brick Veneer and Vinyl Siding.
click image below to view photos from May 2004
- August 2004.
Please keep in mind, we closed on our first owner Heartland Homes
home February 2004.
Please keep in mind as you read our details and view all of our
custom home photos, emails and documentation; we are not in the
construction industry. We are simply presenting all of the
information we have, including a sampling of the custom home photos
we took, documentation we received from our custom home builder,
actual emails we sent and received to/from Heartland Homes. We also
included the emails we sent to Marty Gillespie of Heartland Homes
shortly after we filed our Heartland Homes complaint with the Better
Business Bureau (BBB) in 2005. In June 2005 is when Marty Gillespie
came to visit our home to see about the issues we were having.
photo above shows continuing water problems in
2005.
We notified our custom home builder May 2004 regarding our water
problems.
See link to all emails on sidebar Titled
Every Email
We Sent To Heartland Homes or click here...
Our home was constructed in 2003 and completed in early
2004, closed on our first Heartland Homes home February 2004. We
also have the building permit and occupancy permit to validate this
information as well. We've had to research a lot of information,
take a lot of photos, countless hours of documenting everything to
put our case together for the Better Business Bureau, Pennsylvania
State Attorney Generals Office, our Attorney for our Heartland Homes
lawsuit and now for you the public for our website(s).
As of May 21, 2010 it has been literally 6 years since
our water problems started in our Heartland Homes custom home.
May 21 2004 is when our water problems started and
the first time we notified our custom home builder Heartland
Homes
we were having water problems. We have been working to find a more
concise way to present all of our information so our site
doesn't jump around as much. Hopefully this new format will enable
folks to follow along more easily with our home experience with our
Heartland Home builder. Please know, it is not our intention to have
"GAPS" in our story. Please be sure to refer to our timeline,
which is directly below. Click on the image below to view or to
print.
In our opinion one item really stood out to us as we moved
along in our process. Please read the section Significant ITEM TO
NOTE directly below. Next small section below the Significant
ITEM TO NOTE is simply a high-level summary of our Heartland
Homes review, under the heading of our Heartland Homes Summary
Review. Please scroll further below as each year is now broken
down into some details however a lot more photos. Please see each
section below Titled for each year starting 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009 and 2010.
Significant ITEM TO NOTE
We would like you to focus on the actual
documents we have listed here. The actual photos or copies of
all of the documents we mention are below under the section titled
our Heartland Homes Review Summary. July 22, 2004 email from
Heartland to us, the homeowners refers to our water problem as
Wet Basement.
September 21, 2004 email from Heartland to us, the homeowners
refers to our water problem as Extreme Amount of Water.
January 21, 2005 email from Heartland to us, the home owners
states We Will Continue To Work Towards A Solution...
June 29 2005 Heartland Homes signed letter to the BBB stating
We met with Mr. Romesburg and discussed solutions for his door
and Wet Basement problems. We are currently working with Mr.
Romesburg to remedy these issues.
October 4, 2006 (after we ask the BBB to escalate our case. We
now find water in our electrical panel after trenching is performed)
Company states they are currently working with the customer to
remedy the problems with the door and Wet Basement problems. Company
seeks to make repairs, etc.
October 17, 2006 Company states they performed work on
customer's townhouse and this work was done as
a courtesy. It is stated in customer's warranty that "Damp
Spots on foundation walls do not constitute a Wet Basement.
Company further states they are not responsible for Damp Spots on
Foundation walls. etc"
November 3, 2006, 17 days later Heartland Homes response
to the PA State Attorney Generals Office is - Heartland Homes
will continue to MONITOR the situation but believes that
the remedial steps taken have ELIMINATED
the Water Staining Issue. See section
under 2006 Titled PA State Attorney Generals Office. In our
opinion you should be about to see photos showing our Water issues
after the date posted on the response.
In our opinion we go from having a Wet
Basement from 2004 into late 2006. Then October 17 2006,
BBB document from Heartland Homes now state we have Damp Spots.
Approximately 17 days later, Heartland Homes states to the
State Attorney General Office Heartland Homes will continue to
MONITOR the situation but believes that the Remedial Steps
Taken have ELIMINATED the Water Staining Issue.. Please note
under the PA State Attorney Generals Office section further
below, we have posted photos, some with newspapers showing
the actual dates after the 2006 with what we believe to be is
water.
our Heartland Homes review summary
February 2004 we close on our first
Heartland Homes home.
May 2004 our water problems start,
we notified
builder immediately and every time after. Click the link to view
every email we sent to Heartland Homes and received from Heartland
Homes our custom home builder.
.
July 22, 2004 Heartland Homes emails us - Wet Basement
Remedy to begin in the next few weeks.
click above view all three emails from
Heartland Homes indicating to us they were working on our water
problems.
September 21, 2004 Heartland Homes emailed us - Due to
the
Extreme Amount of Water, etc...
January 21, 2005 Heartland Homes emailed us - We
will Continue To Work Towards A Solution...
May 18, 2005 we send a certified letter along with tons of
photos to Heartland Homes
founder Alan Gillespie, Marty Gillespie Heartland Homes. No response
from Alan Gillespie or Marty Gillespie in three weeks.
click photo above to see details sent to
Heartland Homes Founder, Heartland Homes owner.
June 7 2005
Letter we sent to the company that handled our Homeowners
Association at this time.
The Meritage Group Pittsburgh, PA. Because our Heartland
Homes new home community was still fairly new, there had to be a
certain percentage of homes occupied before our own board could be
elected.
Direct quote from their website About US states: "Heartland
Homes is collaborating with The Meritage Group on Providence Pointe
in Marshall Township, Castleview Estates in Kennedy Township, Sonoma
Ridge Estates in Moon Township, and Morning Grove Manor in Adams
Township. We are also excited about Cobblestone Manor in Ohio
Township."
Because our Heartland Homes new home
community was still fairly new, there had to be a certain percentage
of homes occupied before our own board could be elected. We believe
this is why The Meritage Group in Pittsburgh handled our Home owners
Association.
June 11, 2005 we file a Heartland Homes complaint with the
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
June 21, 2005 Marty Gillespie current President of Heartland
Homes Pittsburgh visits our home
June 29 2005 received signed letter from Heartland Homes
Warranty Manager;
We met with Mr. Romesburg and discussed solutions for his door
and Wet Basement problems. etc. View emails and signed letter
from Heartland Homes our. custom home builder. Click to view signed
letter from Rick Murray, Heartland Homes (warranty manager).
click photo above to read all 3 Heartland Homes
emails
and Heartland Homes signed letter to the Better Business Bureau
June 11 2005 - November 2006 Heartland Homes Better Business
Bureau complaint timeline.
June 29 2005 Heartland Homes signed letter
stating We met with Mr. Romesburg and discussed solutions for his
door and Wet Basement problems. We are currently working with Mr.
Romesburg to remedy these issues.
October 4, 2006 (after we ask the BBB to escalate our case. We
now find water in our electrical panel after trenching is performed)
Company states they are currently working with the customer to
remedy the problems with the door and Wet Basement problems. Company
seeks to make repairs, etc.
October 17, 2006 Company states they performed work on
customer's townhouse and this work was done as
a courtesy. It is stated in customer's warranty that "Damp
Spots on foundation walls do not constitute a Wet Basement.
Company further states they are not responsible for Damp Spots on
Foundation walls. etc"
click photo above to read all 3 Heartland Homes
documents to the Better Business Bureau
Around October 2006 we file a Heartland Homes complaint with
the PA State Attorney Generals office.
Click on the image directly below. This is one of three we have put
together for the State Attorney Generals office validation that we
continued to have water problems well after this letter was written
from our custom home builder to the Attorney Generals office. All 3
documents we put together are under the timeline section further
below, title PA State Attorney Generals Office.
click to view excerpt from letter date stamped
November 6, 2006.
Also view newspaper validation in our photos showing our water
problems well after this date.
December 2007 we start the process with finding an attorney
for our Heartland Homes lawsuit.
December 2008 we had a non-jury court trial.
January 2009 Judges verdict in our favor for $11,700.00**
January/ February 2009 our custom home builder Heartland
Homes files an appeal for the monies portion of our verdict. Please
keep in mind our water issues have been going on since May 2004,
almost 5 years at this point.
**Cost we spent to date (end 2009) in legal fees, deposition
fees, Structural Engineer inspection(s) and expert witness
testimony, replacing our electrical panel, cost for materials for
our BBB arbitration hearing = over $24,000.00. No outside
repairs have been done at this point.
March/April 2009 we file to discontinue our Heartland Homes
lawsuit because it has been almost 5 years of water problems
at this point. By the time we pay for repairs and what we have
already spent, we will be upside down over $40,000 -
$50,000 of our own dollars. Keep in mind we were told via
emails we have posted above and below - our Wet Basement remedy
was to begin, We will continue to work Towards A Solution.
Marty Gillespie of Heartland Homes did visit our home and assign
Craig as our point person for our issues, etc. See details under
each year timeline below.
Review our Heartland Homes - Pittsburgh home on YouTube
Start here for our Heartland Homes review timeline per year
Honestly we never documented anything until we
noticed our water issues were getting worse, not better and that is
in our opinion. Judge for yourself, click on each and every photo to
view the larger image. Review our custom home photos of our
Heartland Homes home. Please review the photos below, what are your
thoughts. Since we notified Heartland Homes every time we had water
problems and we were told our Wet basement remedy would begin in X
period of time, in our opinion, our water problems were getting
worse not better.
As I've mentioned above under the section SIGNIFICANT ITEM TO
NOTE - we already knew Heartland Homes warranty did NOT cover
"damp spots" on foundation walls. We knew this when we signed our
contract for our new home, well before we closed on our home. As you
can see in the emails from Heartland Homes they refer to our water
problem as Wet Basement in an email to us in 2004.
Wet Basement in a signed letter from Heartland Homes to the
Better Business Bureau in 2005.
October 4 2006 Wet Basement problems. October 17 2006 Damp Spot(s)
in a signed letter from Heartland Homes to the Better Business
Bureau in 2006.
No one from Heartland Homes ever came
into our home during our 1 year warranty period to look at
the water problems we reported. We were never asked if our water
problems were resolved. The emails from Heartland
Homes validate we
were told that our Wet Basement remedy would begin in July 2004, as
well as We Will Continue To Work Towards A Solution in January 2005.
Review our photos, what do you think?
PLEASE ALSO KEEP IN MIND [click to view all emails and BBB documents
above, they are all there to validate what we were told]
October 17, 2006 (Heartland Homes) Company states they performed work on
customer's townhouse and this work was done as
a courtesy. It is stated in customer's warranty that "Damp
Spots on foundation walls do not constitute a Wet Basement.
(Heartland Homes)
Company further states they are not responsible for Damp Spots on
Foundation walls. etc" REVIEW our photos, what do you
think? Do we have a wet areas in our foundation like we were
initially told by our custom home builder in 2004?
2004 Timeline
| our brand new Heartland Homes at 3
months, 4 months, 5 months old. |
Heartland Homes dream home 6 months
old. |
our first brand new home May 2004, 3
months after our new home closing. |
our custom designed home 3 months
old. |
Wet basement in our custom home by
love Heartland Homes. |
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July 2004 5 months after closing on
our custom home by Heartland Homes. |
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our Heartland Homes Pittsburgh home
in photo below dated August 11, 2004.
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Welcome to our Heartland Homes
Pittsburgh, PA home. |
our custom home in Pittsburgh, PA.
photo is dated August 21, 2004. Closed on our new home
construction February 2004, 6 months earlier. |
August 2004 new home construction we
closed on our brand new 1st owner home February 2004, 6
months before this photo of our basement. |
August 21, 2004 our first Heartland
Homes home. Click to view our brand new custom home 6 months
after closing on our new home. |
7 months after closing on our
Heartland Homes home Pittsburgh, PA. |
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| a lot more 2004 photos to come. | |
| Stay tuned to our Heartland Homes review. | |
2005 Timeline
Do you recall the emails above from Heartland Homes:
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Photo shows the basement of our
Heartland Homes home less than 1 year old. |
Here is the corner of our cinder
block foundation this picture is around January 13, 2005.
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| May 16 2005 we sent a package
containing a letter, emails as well as photos and additional
details to the owner(s) of Heartland Homes in Pittsburgh,
PA. Heartland Homes 101 Commerce Blvd Lawrence, PA 15055 The certified package was delivered on and signed for on May, 18 2005.
We will have a new updated photo posted here to view. |
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| June 7 2005 here is the letter we sent to the company that handled our Homeowners
Association at that time;
The Meritage Group Pittsburgh, PA. Please note this is
the only page we are posting. Since we sent our contact
person Donna, and Jim Rumbaugh almost an exact copy of what
we filed with the Better Business Bureau, we do not want to
duplicate this information yet again on this website so we
are only posting this single page, not a copy of everything
we sent to The Meritage Group. After we sent all of our documentation, emails and photos to the Meritage Group regarding our water problems in our Heartland Homes custom home, nothing was resolved and nothing changed. Please note The Meritage Group did not build our home, they only managed our Homeowners Association at the time and for a while afterwards. I had a few conversations with Donna and from my understanding Donna did discuss our Heartland Homes water problems with Jim Rumbaugh, the President or the owner of The Meritage Group in Pittsburgh, PA. I will not post what Donna from the Meritage Group told me during our phone conversation(s). This would be considered here say and I, Dave Romesburg have no documented proof. Donna did specifically talk with Jim Rumbaugh from what I was told. |
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Click to review this custom home
photo showing in June 2004 we had our threshold front door
sweep replaced. We closed on our home May 2004, brand new
Heartland Homes home.  Photo will also show the raised thumbscrews in our threshold. The rubber stripping torn. |
Always click to view any larger
custom home photo. The photo below shows rain water in our
foyer from under/around our threshold in our opinion.  |
our Heartland Homes Pittsburgh custom
built home. Not sure when we will put our Heartland Homes up
for sale. see newspaper in photo clearly dated June 14, 2005. Over 1 year after our water problems started in May 2004. |
June 2005 part of our Heartland Homes
complaint w/the Better Business Bureau (BBB).  photo is around the outside area of our front door. |
Welcome to our home. Newspaper shown
in our custom home photo is dated June 14, 2005.  |
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16 months after closing on our brand
new home. Our Heartland Homes Pittsburgh complaint we filed
with the Pittsburgh Better Business Bureau (BBB). Shortly
after we filed our complaint Marty Gillespie of Heartland
Homes contacted me to discuss our water problems and set up
a scheduled date and time to visit our home. |
Marty Gillespie of Heartland Homes
visits our home along with Craig Falconer from Heartland Homes.
Marty, Craig and I, Dave Romesburg walk around our home. Marty points
specific items out to Craig. Marty specifically states to me, Dave Romesburg that Craig is our point person for our issues and will be working on our problems. Today is May 2010 and this happened back in 2005, so I honestly can not recall the exact words that were discussed.
However I do know that Heartland Homes made some attempts to correct the water problems with our home AFTER we filed our Heartland Homes complaint with the Pittsburgh Better Business Bureau. See detailed photos coming... |
our Heartland Homes Jefferson model
town home. Photo is dated July 13, 2005. In our opinion,
what we see in this photo is water in our basement
foundation.  |
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| Click to view the Heartland Homes
emails dated July 2004, September 2004 and January 2005.
January 2005 email from our custom home builder does state We will Continue to Work Towards A Solution. This is the same document from the upper section showing since July 2004 our "Wet Basement remedy" was to begin |
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Built by Heartland Homes front of our
townhome. |
Heartland Homes worked performed on
our custom home after we filed our Heartland Homes complaint
with the Better Business Bureau (BBB). |
Welcome to our Heartland Homes.
August 2005 a new door is installed after Brookside Lumber,
Pittsburgh PA comes out to measure our front door to be
replaced. This work is also handled Heartland Homes after
Marty Gillespie visits our home in June 2005.. Note how our front door is now white. Previous photos even from July 2005 show our reddish colored front door. |
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October 2005 click photo to see our
Heartland Homes basement less than two years old. Water
visible on our basement floor. In our opinion the water on
our floor is coming from the water coming down our cinder
block foundation wall.
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Front door, door frame, threshold
replacement is measured by folks that work at Brookside
Lumber Company in Bethel Park, PA. |
November 15 2005 is a photo of our
love Heartland Homes home.  Photo above is 21 months, less than two years after closing on our brand new home. In our opinion we have water on the floor either from trickling down our cinder block foundation wall or from where the floor meets the block foundation. |
2006 Timeline
Pittsburgh new home construction. |
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our Pittsburgh Heartland Homes home
almost 2 years old. We were trying to decide when we were
going to put our Heartland Homes for sale. |
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Augenstein Electric is the electrical
contractor that wired our Heartland Homes home and
discovered the compromised electrical conduit that was
allowing water to enter our electrical panel.
Click image to view larger detailed photo and letter
from Heartland Homes also stating Craig Falconer, the
production manager, who has been to Mr. Romesburg's house
previously concerning issues. |
| August 26 2005 | |
| October 17, 2006 Company states they performed work on customer's townhouse and this work was done as a courtesy. It is stated in customer's warranty that "Damp Spots on foundation walls do not constitute a Wet Basement. Company further states they are not responsible for Damp Spots on Foundation walls. etc" |
PA State Attorney Generals Office
| Less than a few weeks After Heartland Homes state they are not responsible for damp spots on foundation walls with the Better Business Bureau.. The documents below, with our photos we added as proof, show our water problems still existed in our opinion. Not sure how digital photos along with some actual newspapers can be disputed? In our opinion, our water problems continue to exist well after the 2006 date stamped on the letter from Heartland Homes. | |
custom home builder response to our Heartland Homes
complaint regarding our water problems. In our opinion and
based on our photos, our issues are not resolved. We go from
Wet Basement, to Damp Spots to Eliminated the Water Staining
Issue. |
Approximately 17 days later see
images below that show we have water issues after the
November 6, 2006 dated response from Heartland Homes, our
custom home builder. Our dated photos you will see included are: Dec 8, 2006 February 9, 2007 May 2, 2007 July 11, 2007 July 17, 2007 December 2008 |
Review our Heartland Homes Pittsburgh
response to the State Attorney Generals Office. |
Please remember to click on ANY
Photo, ANY image to view a larger picture with details.
All 3 pictures within the State Attorney General Office section here are large files with a lot of details including photos showing our continued water problems from 2006, 2007 and 2008. We closed on our brand new home February 2004. Our water problems started May 2004. We reported our water problems to our custom home builder May 2004 and every time after that. |
2007 Timeline
2008 Timeline
Our Heartland Homes complaint
regarding our water problems. Click to view Heartland Homes
email January 21, 2005 We Will Continue to Works Towards A
Solution.  The photo shown above is the same as the photo with dated newspaper on the right. Date on newspaper IS July 8, 2008. |
our Custom home by Heartland Homes. |
Here is a photo of our home taken
towards end of 2008.  |
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2009 Timeline
We are not in the construction industry, nor are we home
builders. We do know we've has water problems in our new home since
May 2004. We had a Structural Engineer come to our home prior to our
court trial. We have the building codes from 2000 and 2003.
Our water issues were never resolved, period. As you can hopefully
clearly see in some of the photos above. From 2008 on we haven't
taken many photos of our water problems because I think the 1,000+
photos we have starting in 2004 are plenty.
Front door area of our Heartland Home.
We closed on our home February 2004, our water problems started May
2004.
I was asked on the court stand if I knew what was BEHIND our brick
and at that time, I did not. Once we posted the Structural Engineer
reports below you can see what John states regarding FLASHING and
weepholes.
2010 Timeline
Behind our Brick Veneer and Vinyl Siding
During our trial when I, Dave Romesburg, was on the stand, I was asked if I knew what was behind the brick veneer front of our home. Unfortunately at the time of our Heartland Homes trial, I did not. However after our trial, when I did hand chiseling some bricks from the front of our custom built home, I was very familiar with what was installed behind our brick veneer in the areas where I removed brick. I also pulled back the vinyl siding from the side of our home to see what was installed under our vinyl siding at the side of our home. If we had to do over again, I would have removed brick veneer and our installed vinyl siding before our court trial even started. We are not in the construction industry, however
Front of our Heartland home townhome where we removed bricks to
see what was behind our brick home front.
Structural Engineer
After The Verdict
The number of visits have grown since we started our site February/March 2009.
Better Business Bureau
Find out if a Business is a BBB Accredited Business. You can
also view The BBB Business Reliability Report, where you can
review the number of complaints over a 36 months. You can also find
out what "Rating" like a report card that Business has and
details regarding complaints.
Click on the BBB (Better Business Bureau) icon below or click here.
You don't even have to create an account or log in. Just click on
the icon above or the link we have posted above as well, what could
be easier than that?
Review our photos below from our Heartland Homes complaint with the
BBB.
our Heartland Homes home BBB Better Business Bureau.
our Heartland Homes blog
Our Heartland Homes review of our custom home by Heartland.
click to view larger image
our
Heartland Homes custom home builder
Communication regarding our water problems with our custom home
builder.
Every email we sent to Heartland Homes...
Click here
to view every email we sent to our Heartland Homes custom home
builder and received from Heartland
Homes acknowledging our Wet
Basement issue as stated by Heartland Homes.
Emails we received from Heartland Homes indicating to us they
were working on our Wet Basement issue. Please note the
responses from Heartland Homes dated July 22, 2004,
September 21, 2004 and January 21, 2005.
Also note the emails to Marty Gillespie of Heartland Homes after he
visited our home in June 2005 to review our water problems.
Pittsburghs #1 custom builder.
Family Owned Since 1984.
Heartland Homes - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Homes
Please Note:
- 3 months after closing on our brand new custom home, we started having water issues in our home.
- We notified Heartland Homes each and every time we had water problems in our newly constructed home. Click here to read every email.
- Heartland Homes has never made any "recommendations" or "suggestions" to us to follow to resolve our water problems that started 3 months after our closing on our brand new first owner custom home.
- Heartland Homes never sent a Structural Engineer to our home at any time to look at our water problems. This was discussed during our Heartland Homes trial in December 2008. Which I did buy the transcript of Heartland Homes testimony. If anyone would like to see this part of our court transcript, I would be more than happy to send it to you. Please click here to email me and ask,
- We, the homeowners, paid a certified Structural Engineer to come to our home on more than one occasion. Additionally the certified Structural Engineer we hired was our expert Witness during our Heartland Homes lawsuit and trial. Please see section Titled Structural Engineer
- As home owners, we never altered, changed or touched the outside of our home until after we received the Judges verdict in January 200x in our favor. Heartland Homes appealed the monies portion of the verdict. Please see section Titled After The Verdict on the main section of this page.
- We followed Heartland Homes outlined process to notify our builder of our issues. Click link above to read emails and you will see after xx number of emails to Heartland Homes warranty department, our first response from Heartland Homes was July 22, 2004.
- We were told on multiple occasions via email that the Basement Remedy was to begin, We will continue to work Towards A Solution, etc. Please click above to read those emails.
- From May 2004 when our water problem started, until June 2005, after we filed our Heartland Homes complaint with the Better Business Bureau - no one from Heartland Homes ever came into our home to look at the water problems inside of our home. If they did we would of had to let them in and we were never asked.
May 2005 we sent a certified letter that was signed for to
Heartland Homes founder Alan Gillespie and Marty Gillespie of
Heartland Homes
explaining our problems with our home. We asked for a response
by a certain date, we never heard back from Heartland Homes.
Click photo above to view details.
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- Washington
- Westmoreland
- new home construction
- Pittsburgh home builders
- Allegheny County
Apple iPad
We are also working on making our website more Apple iPad and
Apple iPod friendly as well. This is one of the reason for a major
revamping of our Heartland Homes custom home page update. I would
also like to create a complete site that is photo only type site to
use Google Picasa differently or even put together a Cool Iris site,
etc.. Please stay tuned for that as well.
We know we need to fully commit the time and energies to completing
our entire site from beginning of our Heartland Homes review to the
end of our Heartland Homes review and all event in between.
Special thank you to Matthew James Taylor for the webpage layout.. website layout template by Matthew James Taylor .