McCloskey Homes Inc.

We interviewed multiple builders for a custom home build in the Clermont area in 2019. Thomas impressed us from the start. Punctual, knowledgeable, insightful and demonstrated excellent vision for a custom home on a difficult lot. He designed and built an outstanding home. Beautiful and completely in tune with our needs. He’s a quiet guy but he has proven himself to be trustworthy, talented and hardworking person that has his customer at the heart of his business.

A very unfortunate experience. Nothing but stress, lies, and a complete lack of communication. We requested to meet Thomas on-site time after time during the home build and he never once agreed to meet us. We only were able to primarily speak with his brother and accountant through an email thread where Thomas would occasionally only chime in to defend himself, only to disappear again. No notification of up-charges, we just randomly would get a bill sent to us for tens of thousands above what was on the contract. We would have weeks of emails back and forth about installing a bathtub, where they agreed to do the work and said no problem. Only for them to forget and then just blame the fact that it wasn't in the plans. Thomas has absolutely no accountability for himself or his company. They would request draws and say everything was good to go, only for us to do a walkthrough and find the trades damaged several items, that we then had to fight to get replaced, or fix ourselves. Other times on work not done right or completed they would threaten to cease work completely and pull all trades off the job until he was paid the work. Even though the time frame for payment, that was outlined clear as day in the contract, expressed that we had many days left before payment was due, and that the work had to be satisfactorily completed. I can't count how many unwarranted threats we received from Thomas. I would never recommend Thomas to complete your home build, he was completely and utterly unprofessional.

It went terrible. Our neighbors started building 2 months after we started and finished 2 months before us..he was horrible to deal with. Was a great salesman. Once we signed the contract he was completely different. A Horrible nightmare. He ended up being very arrogant. Didn't want to give us any choices everything we asked for he did it different. In the first two weeks I spent $10,000 dollars out of pocket for water and electric hook up that he told me there was no charge for. I should have fired him then it just kept getting worse. We finally had to hire a lawyer to get through it which probably cost us another $20,000. We didn't get any of our credits back and had to get about 6-7 liens off our house from him not paying the subs. I had to pay them directly. I would never recommend this guy to my worst enemy. He comes off nice in the beginning but don't let him fool you. Once you sign the contract your done!!

Outstanding results, done by professional sub-contractors. Tom McCloskey was on the job frequently and very responsive.