Byard Home Builders

Everything about our home buying process has been a night mare. First off, when we put in our full price offer, the builder, Jake Petry, took his sweet time responding to our offer. It took him five days to return our offer. When we offered, he signed the contract KNOWING that we had a VA loan and that he was required to do everything he needed to do to complete our contract and close on the house. The VA loan needs a builder code, and Jake refused to sign the paper work to receive a builder code, which means his homes were not under VA codes. He basically said that “he was not going to sign the papers.” We had to spoon feed him the information to finally get him to sign the papers 5 days later. Our realtor, his agent, and even the broker were pushing him to sign these papers. He is required legally to fulfill what he has signed in our contract. He was also asked to sign more papers, because yes a VA loan is very picky. He refused to sign those papers and went missing. We had our realtor, two of his realtors, and the broker trying to reach out to him. He refused to sign the papers and didn’t return any calls, texts, or emails to anyone, including his agent. Which then continued to push back our closing. He also left the house a mess, there was blue tape covering the walls, the plumbing and sinks were not put in, the trim was not painted, the appliances were not put in—all of which he agreed on in our contract— it basically looked the same the whole time we were working on closing from Jan. 30- March 8th. Which meant that when we had our appraisal done our inspection couldn’t be approved because he had not completed the house. He was then told about all of the issues that needed to be fixed and took two weeks to finish them which pushed our appraisal back until the Friday before we were supposed to close on Monday. During the appraisal the inspector needed to see the appliances—well Jake got the appliances sent to the wrong house so when the appraiser showed up, he couldn’t complete his inspection, which then pushed us back from closing on Monday. We finally got the ok to close on Thursday, 20 mins before closing we get a call from our realtor stating that we needed to wait a little because we were waiting on paperwork from Jake, surprise surprise. Apparently this is a company owned by brothers and the one brother owned the deed to our house and needed to sign it over to Jake so that he could sign the deed over to us. Well they couldn’t get a hold of him. So I sat in a car for an hour with my two kids—6 and 10months, at the title company, after driving 30 mins to get there on time, for them to tell me that they never got a hold of him. We had already rented a uhaul and had it packed up to move the next morning. They finally got a hold of him that night and told us that we could close on Friday. Friday comes and we’re waiting in the car once again to close on our house and we get a call saying that they can’t get a hold of the seller, Jake, once again. At this point our realtor, his agent, his attorney, and broker are trying to get a hold of him. Come to find out the brothers are in a “tiff” and they can’t agree one who is getting the money to our house. So here we are again waiting to close because the brothers can’t get their **** together. We have now cancelled our apartment we’re currently living in and have to be out in ten days. We have a relocation package with my husbands work and we have now lost that because we cannot find a house and close before our time is up. We are basically homeless with two kids and a dog during the coronavirus where there are no open hotels. To say this has been the WORST EXPERIENCE EVER would be sugarcoating it. Jake is the worst seller on the planet and deserves to lose his company over the stress and turmoil he has caused our family. Supposedly he is new to selling his own homes and really needs to reconsider selling his own homes because of how unprofessional and selfish he is. NEVER EVER EVER BUY WITH JAKE AND PETRY HOME BUILDERS, BYARD, PCO HOMES OR WHATEVER THE HECK THEIR NEW NAME IS!

This company is also known as Petry Home Builders. This company does not stand behind their word, nor their work. They refuse to make repairs on multiple issues and ignore emails. Some of the issues include: doors that do not latch, kitchen cabinets not hung propertly to studs, squeeky floors, lack of quality in some building materials, excessive cost cutting in building standards to meet minimum code, excessive cracking in concrete, etc... Some they have taken care of, some they have not. Dealing with this company has been beyond frustrating.