Galiant Homes

I wish we had never met Steve Miller, Galiant's owner. See this former project manager’s posting for context on our experience: [*** Link removed ***] Steve’s a nice guy and comes across as knowing what he’s doing. But, in my opinion, he’s motivated only by money and has permanently harmed the ‘forever home’ property we bought 25 years ago. We have a great home site in Black Forest. It’s four acres that slopes toward as good of view of the Front Range as you’ve seen on any postcard. We hired Miller’s company, Galiant Custom Homes, to build our fully custom dream home on this uniquely beautiful land. Because Miller uses a fixed-cost contract, we agreed to one price for the entire build. He assured us we didn’t have to worry about costs increasing and that’s what fixed-cost means. We then walked our lot together and made it clear that the foundation must be buried into the sandstone. The land would be left as natural as possible, with minimal excavation. But, without our approval or communication to us, Miller raised the foundation five feet above the hill that is our home site. He then dug the required fill dirt from our lot rather than paying to truck it in. That excavation significantly changed our land, destroying vegetation and natural contours. Instead of gentle slopes on three sides, we ended up with a 16’ high sand pile that eroded immediately and needs about $30k in engineered terracing. We’re sickened by the changes to the natural lay of our land. We now need unplanned retaining walls (not in the budget), and will always face the challenge and expense of holding it together against erosion. In that process of realizing what happened, we also learned that Miller made serious budget mistakes. He then insisted that we pay for his mistakes, regardless of the fixed-cost contract. Another disappointment - Miller included cheap, standard height patio doors in the great room that limit the spectacular view instead of following our obvious direction to maximize that view. We’re stuck with it because a huge steel beam prevents any fix. We’re heartbroken. I’ll leave it to you to decide if you want to hire someone who treats his customers and their dream home that way.